Werner Van Gent leaves SF due to poor working conditions
Werner van Gent, a correspondent for Swiss Television (SF), has resigned from his position at the media company. He criticizes SF for relying less and less on correspondents and for neglecting its coverage of foreign affairs.
The correspondent for Swiss Television (SF), Werner van Gent, has resigned from his position at the media company. According to an article in the Sonntagszeitung, he criticizes SF for using its correspondents less and less and neglecting foreign reporting. He suspects that SF is showing more and more agency material to save money, but that this is significantly reducing the volume of work for freelancers. Van Gent describes this development as dangerous and sees it as a loss of information.
Other SF correspondents also appear to be dissatisfied, as the Sonntagszeitung further reports. SF only deployed the individual journalists a little, but in Leutschenbach they were expected to be on permanent stand-by duty. Editor-in-chief Ueli Haldimann denies the accusations. There have never been so many permanent and freelance correspondents on duty as at present.
