NZZ top management considers interim solution
According to the Sonntagszeitung, the management of the NZZ publishing house wants to buy itself some time and is considering Felix E. Müller as an interim solution in the search for a new editor-in-chief.
Müller is Editor-in-Chief of the NZZ am Sonntag and will retire in 2016. His appointment as NZZ Editorial Director would, on the one hand, relieve the interim heads Luzi Bernet, Colette Gradwohl and René Zeller, and on the other hand, it would buy the Board of Directors time in the search for a successor to Markus Spillmann. René Zeller, along with Francesco Benini and Pascal Hollenstein, is being considered as a possible successor to Müller at NZZ am Sonntag - the change in leadership, which is due to take place soon anyway, would be brought forward with the interim solution.
The Sonntagszeitung knows from "well-informed sources" that "political battles of direction" are said to have taken place within the strategic management. As recently as Thursday, the NZZ board of directors emphasized that there had been no change of position at any time when BaZ editor-in-chief and Blocher sympathizer Markus Somm was asked to succeed Spillmann (Werbewoche.ch reported).(hae/Soz)
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