Pierre Veya, Le Temps, new managing editor

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Le Temps, the main serious newspaper in French-speaking Switzerland, has named one of its own, Pierre Veya, editor-in-chief, after a three-month industry-wide search. Veya replaces Jean-Jacque Roth, who has held the post since 2002. Roth in February became head of a joint television-radio news team at Radio Television Suisse Romande (RTSR), created in January by the merger of public television and radio in the region.

Veya, age 49,will take up the new position 1 May 2010.

Veya received a graduate degree in business in Delémont, Switzerland, after which he worked at L’Impartial, covering the Jura and cantonal news. In 1989 he joined Swiss news magazine L’Hebdo, where he was responsible for the economy section.

He became deputy managing editor of the Swiss financial daily Agefi and then managing editor from 2001 to 2004. He was named to the post of deputy managing editor of Le Temps in 2005, where he has played a key role in developing the newspaper’s economic and financial pages. In 2006 he won the Prix Alstom.

Le Temps was created in 1998 from the merger of 1998, following the merger of the Journal de Genève-Gazette de Lausanne and Le Nouveau Quotidien. The majority of its shares are owned equally by the two main Swiss publishing groups, Edipresse and Ringier. Edipresse publishes the other main newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland:  Tribune de Genève, 24 Heures and Le Matin. Ringier publishes the up-market news magazine L’Hebdo

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