Antidote wants to roll up media landscape from the left

The first issue of Antidot, a new weekly newspaper "from the resistant left", will be published on April 27, according to a press release. The newspaper is starting out small but fine, but wants to "sooner or later roll up the media landscape from the bottom left". Antidot will be published in tabloid format and will contain three clearly separated sections: Domestic, International and Culture. At least eleven times a year there will also be a supplement on current topics. The newspaper will be published on Fridays from May 2007. It will be produced by a full-time editorial team with a total of 320 full-time equivalents, spread over 6 people. According to the communiqué, the editorial team is in close contact with the various players on the resistant left and with freelance journalists in various regions of Switzerland and the world. Antidot poses critical questions and aims to be a counterweight to bourgeois mainstream journalism.
"to be smart, moving and exciting", it continues. An advisory board supports and accompanies the work of the editorial team in terms of content and politics. To ensure the survival of the paper, around 2000 subscribers are needed by the end of 2008.