A new person in the Laschet team: The journalist Tanit Koch will support the election campaign of the Union candidate for chancellor as an election campaign advisor.
Berlin - News from the election campaign team of the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet.
As the German Press Agency learned from CDU circles, Laschet
hired
the former editor-in-chief of the
Bild
Zeitung, Tanit Koch, as an advisor in the federal election campaign.
From the CDU headquarters in Berlin, Koch is to lead Laschet's campaign communications before the federal election in 2021, coordinate his press work and expand the CDU chairman's presence on social media.
“With Tanit Koch we are gaining an experienced journalist and communication expert - she is now on my team.
I am very happy, "said Laschet * when asked by the dpa, thereby confirming the change.
Federal election 2021: Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet brings Bild ex-boss on board
Laschet is reacting to weak personal polls and criticism of his election campaign so far. A TV appearance on the ZDF talk show “Markus Lanz” * at the end of March was rated as unfortunate both within the Union and in the media. In parts of the CDU, one misses a strategy for the presentation of the chancellor candidate in social networks and clear messages.
The 43-year-old Tanit Koch was the first woman to head the
Bild
newspaper
from 2016 to 2018
, which she left after a falling out with her co-editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt. In March 2019 she became managing director of the news channel n-tv and editor-in-chief of RTL's central editorial office. In November 2020 it was announced that Koch was leaving RTL. The reason given by the broadcasters was "different views on the future structure and the way forward". The contract of the journalist who claims to be independent from the Cologne TV broadcaster expires at the end of June.
(dpa / aka) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
