Last but not least: Aust has mirrored
In some respects, editors-in-chief seem to share a similar fate with soccer coaches: The whole nation thinks it knows better how to do their job, the turnover rate is very high, and as soon as one gets fired, the speculation machine kicks into gear about who should replace him.
Editors-in-chief seem to share their fate with football coaches in some respects: The whole nation knows better how to do their job, the fluctuation rate is very high and if someone is tipped out, the speculation machine starts immediately as to who should replace him. This is the case again now that we have received the news that Spiegel boss Stefan Aust's contract, which is due to run until 2010, will be terminated prematurely at the end of 2008. The good guy probably found out about his termination from afar, as he is currently on vacation, writes Horizont.net. But the carousel of candidates is already spinning: Giovanni di Lorenzo, head of Die Zeit, and Mathias Müller von Blumencron, editor-in-chief of Spiegel Online, are being passed around in the rumor mill. Whether Stefan Aust will remain in office until the end of next year or whether he will be let go early remains to be seen. So it seems that the firing of an editor-in-chief does not happen quite as quickly as with the football chiefs.
