Blick will soon have a new editor-in-chief

"According to reliable sources", Ringier is set to announce this personnel change soon. Lüchinger was editor-in-chief of the discontinued news magazine Facts and the business magazine Bilanz, among others. He has also attracted negative attention in the past because he did not clearly draw the line between his journalistic activities and the company he founded for corporate publications. For example, he published a positive portrait of the then Coop boss in Weltwoche, while his company produced a customer magazine for Coop.

Lüchinger will replace Andrea Bleicher. Bleicher has been appointed on an interim basis (Werbewoche.ch reported), but according to NZZ am Sonntag, she was hoping for confirmation of her position. It was not her choice of Blick topics that proved to be her undoing, but her less than ideal relationship with Frank A. Meyer. He attaches great importance to conducting a political discourse with the editors-in-chief, which was apparently not possible with Andrea Bleicher as desired. Bleicher is to be offered another position at Ringier. 

Meyer still has "considerable influence" on the media company, even though he lives in Berlin - because publisher Michael Ringier sticks by him. His advice is often ill-considered: For example, he had "brought Ringier the disaster" of the two German editors-in-chief of Blick and Sonntagsblick - from which the hiring of Bleicher ultimately distracted.(hae/NZZaS)

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