Eric Gujer

Eric Gujer  link (Editor,spook?)
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Born	24 July 1962 Zurich,Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Freiburg, University of Cologne
Spouse	Claudia Schwartz
Spooky Swiss editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Eric Martin Gujer is a Swiss journalist and author. He has been editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) since March 2015.

Background

Eric Gujer was born in Zurich as the son of the Swiss business lawyer and entrepreneur Hans Georg Gujer and his German-born wife Johanna, but grew up in Germany. After graduating from high school, Gujer completed an internship at the Südwestfunk (SWF) in Baden-Baden between 1982 and 1984, as well as a traineeship at the newspaper Mannheimer Morgen. He then studied history, Slavic studies and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne.

Career

Gujer started working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1986. Since 1989 he has worked as a correspondent for the NZZ: from 1989 to 1992 in East Berlin (covering the German Democratic Republic and since 1990 for the new federal states), from 1992 to 1995 as an Israel correspondent in Jerusalem, from 1995 to 1998 in Moscow, and from 1998 to 2008 as a Germany correspondent in Berlin. Subsequently, Gujer worked at the NZZ foreign editorial office in Zurich with a focus on Germany, European Union, international strategic issues and terrorism, in July 2013 he became the foreign editor of the NZZ. Since March 11, 2015, Gujer has been editor-in-chief of NZZ and is also responsible for the management of NZZ AG together with CEO Felix Graf.

Activities

In 2010, the then NZZ Head of Foreign Affairs Eric Gujer wrote a book about the War on Terror together with Gary J. Schmitt, the former director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

NZZ had to admit in 2015 that the new NZZ editor-in-chief "in the run-up to the drafting of the Intelligence Service Act (...) from the NDB (...) as a strategy expert (...) had been consulted". Specifically, this means that Gujer worked on the new intelligence law, which he was supposed to follow critically as a journalist. The question of whether Gujer became an official secrets carrier in the process, the NZZ spokeswoman left unanswered.

Gujer is a member of the "Intelligence Agencies discussion group in Germany". In this non-profit association, former high-ranking employees of the BND and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution meet to discuss current "security problems".

The Green National Councillor Daniel Vischer said he was "closely connected with the German BND and the CIA."

Gujer has promoted the expanded readership of the NZZ in Germany.

When Eric Gujer became editor-in-chief, he initiated a purge of the staff at the NZZ". By 2018, about half of the domestic editorial staff has left the newspaper, the same applies to the feature section. Some of the personnel changes are retirements, but the majority are layoffs or dismissals by the employees. According to former employee [Brigitte Hürlimann]], There is an "extreme fear" in the editorial staff, criticism is rarely openly expressed. This has mainly to do with Gujer's leadership style: unconventional colleagues are being replaced by malleable ones. Sometimes the editor-in-chief also intervenes directly in the paper.

Opinions

Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower, but a "traitor".