Starting 1 July 2013, Ueli Eckstein shall be the head of the new company division Regional Media German-speaking Switzerland of Tamedia - In 2013, Marcel Kohler shall join the company's executive management

20 June 2012, Zurich - Starting July 2013, the regional daily newspapers and other publications of Tamedia in German-speaking Switzerland as well as Newsnet shall be combined into the new company division Regional Media German-Speaking Switzerland. Ueli Eckstein will take over management of this division which shall unite the previous company divisions Espace Media and Zurich Media. He shall manage the company division from Bern. Within one and the same company division, the following daily papers should benefit from the exchange in experiences and synergies: BZ Berner Zeitung, BZ Langenthaler Tagblatt, Der Bund, Tages-Anzeiger, Zürcher Unterländer and Zürichsee-Zeitung, as well as the company's interests in BO Berner Oberländer, TT Thuner Tagblatt, Der Landbote and the Zürcher Oberländer. Combining the two company divisions - which had been separated from their radio and TV activities over the last few months - will also allow for economies at the management level. The editors in chief of the daily newspapers shall remain directly subject to the company's management, same as the publishing heads. In publicist issues, the editors in chief shall continue as hitherto to report directly to the publisher Pietro Supino.

Ueli Eckstein joined the Tamedia Media Group in 2009 as head of Espace Media. Over the last three years, he was responsible, inter alia, for the successful implementation of the collaboration between Der Bund and the Tages-Anzeiger, the sale of Capital FM and TeleBärn, as well as the pending incorporation of the BZ Langenthaler Tagblatt into the Berner Zeitung Group. Previously, the 59 year old Eckstein was active as the deputy CEO of AZ Media. In July 2013, the hitherto head of Zurich Media Rolf Bollman shall reach the ordinary retirement age and will continue to be active for Tamedia on a project basis. Since 2005, the 64 year old Bollman has been a member of the executive management and was previously a founding partner of the commuter paper 20 Minuten.

As of 1 January 2013, the commuter paper 20 Minuten in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, as well as in the French and Italian-speaking parts, in Luxembourg, the People-Magazine Friday as well as all digital issues of 20 Minuten Online, tilllate.com und lessentiel.lu shall become an independent business unit. The creation of the new company division gives credit where credit is due with regard to the significance of 20 Minuten within the Tamedia Media Group. Management of the company division shall be assumed by the hitherto managing director Marcel Kohler, who shall then also take up his place in the executive management of Tamedia.

Since 2006, the 52-year old Marcel Kohler has led the media group 20 Minuten. In the last six years, Marcel Kohler made a significant contribution to the successful establishment of the commuter paper 20 minutes and 20 minuti as well as to the strengthening of the digital publication 20 Minuten Online. As a member of the board of directors of Edita SA, he also supported the launch of the commuter paper L'essentiel in Luxembourg. Previously, he served for almost 20 years at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Publicitas-subsidiary NZZ Media.