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Le Temps to publish WikiLeaks US cables on Switzerland

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:01:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss newspapers Le Temps (registration required) and NZZ will publish, in French and in German starting next week, selected cables from the 5,814 that WikiLeaks collected. The two negotiated an agreement to receive the entire collection and several journalists from the two publications are meeting this weekend to determine which to [...]

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SNB’s Hildebrand handed subpoena in Washington airport

Sean Ecker — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:35:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Philippe Hildebrand, president of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), was handed a subpoena as he stepped off a flight in Washington DC, USA on his way to an International Monetary Fund meeting 6 October, Geneva newspaper Le Temps reveals 1 December. The subpoena was served by two fund managers, Kenneth Dart [...]

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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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Roth to head Swiss joint TV-radio news team

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Jean-Jacques Roth, who has just resigned as editor in chief of Le Temps newspaper, has been named to head the joint television-radio news team at the recently created Radio Television Suisse Romande (RTSR). The new entity is the result of the merger of public radio and television stations RSR and TSR, [...]

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Le Temps job cuts, price hike to fight worst industry revenue drop in 60 years

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:36:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Le Temps, the main serious newspaper in French-speaking Switzerland, is making several changes to cope with a sharp drop in advertising revenue, cutting 7.5 percent of its editorial staff (10 jobs). It says the subscription price will be raised for 2010. The newspaper says that the advertising revenue decline, which has [...]

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iPhone therefore I am

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:20:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Patrick Chappatte contributes cartoons regularly to GenevaLunch. © Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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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Geneva hotels, shops pressure city to improve tourist security

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:02:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Hotels in Geneva are increasing the pressure on the government to improve security for visitors to the city, in the wake of accusations by the consul general of Saudi Arabia that police did not do enough when a Saudi citizen was seriously injured and robbed in what the man’s lawyer says [...]

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Spread of A/H1N1 flu in Switzerland could hinge on a medical certificate

Sean Ecker — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:44:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva and Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) recommends that people who come down with symptoms of the flu avoid contact with others to stop the spread of the disease. A humourous new advertising campaign (link below) says it quite clearly. This means staying away from work until the [...]

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