One exception is the online newspaper Watson, which still needs entrepreneurial freedom as a start-up company, but could be integrated later.

Peter Wanner is President of the board of directors of CH Media (Vice chairman Jörg Schnyder, chief financial officer of the NZZ Media Group), Axel Wüstmann is CEO of AZ Medien (deputy chairman Jürg Weber, Head of the NZZ Regional Media), and journalistic director is the former journalistic director of the NZZ regional media, Pascal Hollenstein.

In March 2023, the hack of NZZ by the cybercriminal group Play led to the penetration of CH Media's systems, which enabled hackers to extract and publish address data of over 400,000 Swiss expatriates subscribing to the official newspaper Schweizer Revue [de], one of the company's IT clients.

According to Swissinfo, this data, which was handled by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, was considered so sensitive that the newspaper's distributor wasn't given access to it.

[6][7] It is controversially judged whether the merger would lead to a strengthening of the alleged "unity circle" in the Swiss media[8] or, thanks to a powerful editorial staff that has the time and the financial means to be able to research precisely the opposite (Pascal Hollenstein at the media conference).