Swiss Tamedia group merges editorial teams and cuts jobs

Zurich-based media company Tamedia is reorganizing its editorial offices and implementing job cuts announced at the end of August. The number of full-time positions affected will be reduced from the original 90 to 55. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox These personnel measures are expected to affect 30 full-time positions in German-speaking Switzerland and 25 full-time positions in French-speaking Switzerland, the company announced on Tuesday. In future, there will still be four editorial offices for the daily and Sunday titles in Zurich, Bern, Basel and French-speaking Switzerland, according to the press release. The editors-in-chief of the four brands will be Raphaela Birrer, currently editor-in-chief of Tages-Anzeiger, Claude Ansermoz for 24 heures, Wolf Röcken for BZ Berner Zeitung and Marcel Rohr for Basler Zeitung, according to the statement. The editorial teams of Schweizer Familie, Finanz und Wirtschaft and Bilan remain unchanged. Züritipp ...