René Zeller moves to Weltwoche
The NZZ's domestic editor and deputy editor-in-chief René Zeller is leaving the newspaper at his own request to take up a new professional challenge at Weltwoche.
After 24 years of journalistic work for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the NZZ am Sonntag, René Zeller has decided to take on a new professional challenge. The current domestic editor and deputy editor-in-chief of the NZZ will become a member of the editorial board and head of federal politics at "Weltwoche." "René Zeller has distinguished himself as a hands-on journalist who researches tenaciously and comments pointedly. I regret his departure and thank him sincerely for his great and long-standing commitment to our newspaper," says NZZ Editor-in-Chief Eric Gujer.
In 1985, René Zeller (1962) completed a traineeship at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and three years later he joined the NZZ editorial team. He began his journalistic career in the Zurich department, moved to the domestic editorial department in 1994 and became head of the federal parliamentary editorial department in Bern in 1999. Zeller was part of the founding team of the NZZ am Sonntag and was the first domestic editor there from 2002. In 2004, he left the NZZ am Sonntag to take over as head of the federal house editorial department at Schweizer Fernsehen. This was followed by a detour into the communications industry until he returned to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2008 as head of news. In September 2009, he took over as head of the domestic news department there; since the beginning of 2010, he has also been deputy editor-in-chief. Zeller studied history, constitutional law and journalism at the University of Zurich, where he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on Switzerland's internal security.
