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Le Temps, key Swiss French media, names new editor

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:44:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com 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), [...]

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Swiss newspaper prices go up

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:07:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The cost of subscribing to a Swiss daily newspaper will rise in 2010, between 1 and 11 percent, to keep in step with increased costs and lower advertising revenues. The rise is even greater in reality in some cases such as the NZZ, when a mid-2009 increase is taken into account, [...]

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Le Matin staff turn out to support photographers as layoffs loom

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:14:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Staff at Le Matin protested in front of the Edipresse tower in Lausanne Tuesday in solidarity with photographers at the newspaper, particularly hard hit by the layoffs that the company is planning. Edipresse is the largest private media company in French-speaking Switzerland. It announced 9 October that it would lay off [...]

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Swiss print newspapers’ circulations inch up

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:54:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich/Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss newspapers’ print versions are seeing their circulations rise, albeit a slight 0.6 percent. The most recent figures from the Remp survey, done by the Swiss advertising media’s independent research organization, shows that 92.4% of Swiss people over age 14 read a newspaper “more or less regularly,” without defining the frequency. [...]

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Tamedia, country’s second largest publisher, sees 30% profits drop

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:43:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Tamedia, which is scheduled to buy out the Swiss business of Edipresse if the competition commission approves the deal, has published less than rosy results for 2008: a 30 percent fall in profits, to CHF105.8 million. The company’s sales rose 21 percent to CHF895.7m, but this was due mainly to absorbing [...]

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