BaZ: Layoffs also in the online editorial department
Following the BaZ and the Baslerstab, cost-cutting measures at Basler Zeitung Medien continue: The editorial staff of Bazonline, the Basel branch of the Newsnetz, will be transferred to the Basler Zeitung newsroom. Six positions will be eliminated.
The need to optimize costs in the wake of the recession is also leading to adjustments to existing structures in the electronic media, writes Basler Zeitung Medien in a press release issued on Thursday. For this reason, the activities of the previously independent Bazonline team will be integrated into the Basler Zeitung newsroom. Only on Wednesday four jobs were cut at Baslerstab and in January a fifth of the jobs at Basler Zeitung.
Six jobs will be lost when the online editorial team is dissolved. Online editor-in-chief Andrea Müller is among those made redundant, for whom a social plan exists, as CEO Beat Meyer told SDA on request. Manfred Messmer, who built up the online division at BZM at mandate level with a fixed-term contract, is also affected by the redundancies. He is leaving the company.
The measure to "optimize costs" appears to be purely prophylactic. According to Meyer, the company is currently still in the black. In the last financial year, Basler Zeitung Medien made a profit of CHF 7 million.
Bazonline is part of the online platform Newsnetz, which is jointly operated by Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung and Basler Zeitung. Despite the reduction in the editorial team, the quality of electronic reporting will not change, according to the press release.
Six jobs will be lost when the online editorial team is dissolved. Online editor-in-chief Andrea Müller is among those made redundant, for whom a social plan exists, as CEO Beat Meyer told SDA on request. Manfred Messmer, who built up the online division at BZM at mandate level with a fixed-term contract, is also affected by the redundancies. He is leaving the company.
The measure to "optimize costs" appears to be purely prophylactic. According to Meyer, the company is currently still in the black. In the last financial year, Basler Zeitung Medien made a profit of CHF 7 million.
Bazonline is part of the online platform Newsnetz, which is jointly operated by Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung and Basler Zeitung. Despite the reduction in the editorial team, the quality of electronic reporting will not change, according to the press release.
