The NZZ podcast team is set
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is launching a daily podcast in spring 2020. Benedikt Hofer, Nadine Landert, Olga Scheer and David Vogel have been signed on as hosts and producers for the new format. The team will work closely with the NZZ specialist editors and correspondents.
Benedikt Hofer, Nadine Landert, Olga Scheer and David Vogel (l.t.r.)
With the launch of a daily podcast, the NZZ continues to expand its digital offering. The roughly ten-minute format, which will highlight a key international topic from politics and business every day starting in the spring, is aimed at an audience from Switzerland and Germany.
"With the podcast, we want to bring together our core competencies - analysis and background, anticipation of international developments, classification by our experts on the ground - with the contemporary audio format and thus also appeal to a new and younger audience. In doing so, we focus on current topics, but dig deeper and offer space for reflection," says Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief of the New Zurich Newspaper.
The NZZ-podcast team is made up of Benedikt Hofer, Nadine Landert, Olga Scheer and David Vogel. They will start their work in January and February 2020 respectively. The podcast team will be supported editorially by the correspondents and specialist editors of the NZZ. The first podcast edition is planned for spring 2020.
30-year-old Benedikt Hofer has been working at Swiss Radio and Television since 2015. After his time as an "Arena" editor, he moved to the "Tagesschau" and later to the domestic editorial department to complete the trimedial stage course. He then reported for "Tagesschau," "10vor10" and "SRF News" as an editor in the video and foreign editorial departments. Benedikt Hofer holds a Bachelor of Political Science from the University of Zurich and a Master of Science in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Nadine Landert gained her first presenting experience at Radio Zürisee and Radio LoRa. Since 2012, the 30-year-old has worked as an editor at Radio 1. Landert holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Zurich. Between 2014 and 2017, she perfected her use of voice and language in acting training at the Schauspielschule Zürich.
Since January 2019, Olga Scheer has been a volunteer at the NZZ in the business and international departments. In addition to internships at Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Spiegel Online, the 28-year-old has already developed a podcast format for Handelsblatt. Olga studied economics and German language and literature at Philipps University in Marburg. She completed her master's degree in economics and journalism at TU Dortmund University.
David Vogel has been an editor and producer at Swiss radio and television since 2013, initially for SRF 2 Kultur, and since 2017 for Regionaljournal Zürich Schaffhausen. He has extensive experience in radio journalism, gained at Radio 1, DRS 3 and Bavarian Radio, among others. Since 2010, the 41-year-old has also worked as a freelance filmmaker. David studied political science at the University of Zurich and later documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film in Munich.
