ZURICH (Reuters) - Outraged reporters at Switzerland's oldest newspaper appeared on Monday to have foiled an attempt to install an editor with links to a leading right-wing party in a tussle that reflects a wider battle over the direction of Swiss politics.
The Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ), founded in 1780 and a Swiss institution comparable to the Financial Times in Britain, announced last week that its editor of over eight years, Markus Spillmann, would go amid disagreement over the paper's future.
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