From September 1995 to August 1999, Wolfgang Büchner worked as a news editor and reporter for Reuters at its main German bureau in Bonn. Later, he became a news production editor at the Reuters markets desk in Frankfurt. In September 1999, he was appointed managing editor of the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper, which launched in February 2000. In June 2001, he joined SPIEGEL ONLINE as managing editor. In 2003, Wolfgang Büchner was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL ONLINE, 2008 he got promoted to the role of editor-in-chief. In July 2009 Büchner took over the job as deputy editor-in-chief at the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) where he was appointed editor-in-chief in January 2010.