The journalist and moderator Verena Pliger has been the responsible director of ff – Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin since March 2020. For this purpose, she moderates various major events, congresses and professional conferences in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She has versatile experience in the conception and coordination of print magazines; her interviews, portraits and reports on business, entrepreneurship, politics and architecture have appeared in various German-language magazines. The Bressanone native’s face is known from the news on SDF, her voice from the morning press review on Rai Südtirol. The political scientist completed her journalistic training at the Burda School of Journalism in Munich, where she was also an editor for various media until 2008.