Urs Leuthard
Urs Leuthard (born March 7, 1963 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and television presenter . He has been working in various functions at Swiss radio and television since 2002 .
Life
Urs Leuthard graduated from the Einsiedeln Abbey School in 1983 . He then studied psychology , journalism as well as social and preventive medicine at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1990 with a licentiate .
He began his journalistic activity in 1983 as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines. From 1984 to 1990 he worked part-time in employee training at the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt . After completing his studies, he worked from 1991 to 1994 as an adult educator at the interdisciplinary Spitex training center in Zurich and from 1994 to 1997 as editor and presenter of an internal TV magazine for the Swiss credit institution.
In 1997 he became a video journalist and producer for the Zurich private broadcaster TeleZüri . In 1998 he switched to Tele24 as head of news and deputy editor-in-chief . From 2001 he worked as an editor and presenter for the business magazine Cash-TV (on SF two ). From 2002 to 2008 he was editor-in-chief and moderator of the political discussion program “Arena” on Swiss television. From 2008 to 2011 he moderated the politics and business program Rundschau . From 2002 to 2011 he moderated the session program “Classe Politique”. Since 2002 he has moderated the voting Sundays, from 2012 to 2018 he was editor-in-chief of Tagesschau and since 2016 he has also been the project manager for Newsroom19 SRF .
Urs Leuthard is the cousin of Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard .
Web links
- Website by Urs Leuthard
- Urs Leuthard ( memento from June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the Rundschau website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Leuthard becomes the new head of the «Tagesschau» editorial team. Article in the NZZ from December 15, 2011
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on ursleuthard.ch accessed on March 24, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuthard, Urs |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |