Andrea Bleicher

Bleicher initially completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and attended the "Ringier" journalism school in Zürich in 1997/98.{{cite web |url=https://www.persoenlich.com/medien/andrea-bleicher-uebernimmt-fuer-ralph-grosse-bley-304394 |title=Andrea Bleicher übernimmt für Ralph Grosse-Bley |date=7 February 2013 |publisher=Persönlich |access-date=15 August 2018}}

After that, she was a reporter at the tabloid Blick. In 2000, she became a reporter and publisher of the commuter newspapers "20 Minuten" 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 Head of the News Department of the Blick Group's integrated Newsroom. In 2013, she was the first woman of "Blick"{{cite web |url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Jung-hartnaeckig-fordernd/story/18576085 |title=Jung, hartnäckig, fordernd |author=Simone Rau |date=8 February 2013 |work=Tages Anzeiger |access-date=15 August 2018}} who acted as editor-in-chief ad interim. Her dismissal by the media company "Ringier" was discussed nationwide in German-speaking countries.{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/schweiz-blick-redakteure-kaempfen-fuer-chefredakteurin-andrea-bleicher-a-916714.html |title=Unsere Chefin, die Hoffnungsträgerin |date=15 August 2013 |work=Der Spiegel |access-date=15 August 2018}} From 2014 until the end of 2017, she was deputy editor-in-chief of the "SonntagsZeitung".{{cite web |url=https://www.persoenlich.com/medien/andrea-bleicher-wird-stellvertretende-chefredaktorin-310960 |title=Andrea Bleicher wird stellvertretende Chefredaktorin |date=15 November 2013 |publisher=Persönlich |access-date=15 August 2018}} Since 2018, she runs a storytelling agency together with a colleague.{{cite web |url=https://www.persoenlich.com/medien/andrea-bleicher-geht-per-ende-jahr |title=Andrea Bleicher geht per Ende Jahr |date=23 September 2017 |publisher=Persönlich |access-date=15 August 2018}}

She is the mother of two children from a previous partnership. Her partner is the journalist Rolf Cavalli.

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• Schawinski [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITT6BkhDp4k – Andrea Bleicher with Schawinski], SRF 1, 26:45 minutes

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