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Andrea Bleicher (born 1974) is a
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journalist.


Life

Bleicher initially completed an apprenticeship as a
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and attended the "
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" journalism school in
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in 1997/98. After that, she was a reporter at the tabloid
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. In 2000, she became a reporter and publisher of the commuter newspapers "
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" and "Metropol". She worked from 2002 to 2007 as a domestic editor at the "SonntagsZeitung". After which, she headed the news department at "Blick". From 2010, she was
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of the News Department of the Blick Group's integrated
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. In 2013, she was the first woman of "Blick" who acted as editor-in-chief ad interim. Her dismissal by the media company "Ringier" was discussed nationwide in
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countries. From 2014 until the end of 2017, she was deputy editor-in-chief of the "SonntagsZeitung". Since 2018, she runs a
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agency together with a colleague. She is the mother of two children from a previous partnership. Her partner is the journalist Rolf Cavalli.


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External links

* Schawinsk
– Andrea Bleicher with Schawinski
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, 26:45 minutes 1974 births 20th-century Swiss journalists 21st-century Swiss journalists 20th-century Swiss women 21st-century Swiss women German-language writers Swiss newspaper journalists Swiss women non-fiction writers Living people {{Switzerland-writer-stub