Jochen Wegner is Editor-in-Chief of ZEIT ONLINE, Germany’s highest quality online news site. The ZEIT ONLINE newsroom with its 60 editors is based in Berlin.

Prior to his position with ZEIT ONLINE, Jochen spent five years as Editor-in-Chief at focus.de, another leading German news site, which he developed into one of the largest and fastest growing digital news outlets in Germany. As Managing Director of TOMORROW FOCUS Media, the largest digital advertising firm in Germany, he was responsible for innovative media projects like the news aggregator nachrichten.de. He founded mag10, an ecosystem for the creation, distribution and marketing of tablet media. Jochen also worked as a consultant for leading publishing houses.

Jochen started off his journalism career as science and technology editor at Focus News Magazine. He graduated from the Cologne School of Journalism, went on to study Physics and Philosophy and wrote his master’s thesis about the chaos theory of the human brain.

Jochen is author of several books and founded jonet, the largest German-speaking journalism community, in 1994.