Marlène von Arx covered events for her local paper in Switzerland while still in school and got her first job to write about entertainment for a Swiss TV Guide soon after graduation. At the age of 25 she moved from her native Switzerland to Los Angeles to cover film and television as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines in Switzerland. She currently works for the CH Media newspaper group, daily and weekend edition (Schweiz am Wochenende), the news platform www.bluenews.ch, the Tagesanzeiger supplement Fokus, Migros Magazin and Schweizer Illustrierte – all in Switzerland