BaZ: Further job cuts Tettamanti's commitment purely business-related
Nach dem erneuten Verkauf bleibt es weiterhin unruhig um die Basler Zeitung. Nun kündigt Chefradaktor Markus Somm an, dass auch in der Redaktion ein Stellenabbau ansteht.
With this reduction, the editorial team will once again make a contribution to reducing costs. Somm said this in an interview with Schweizer Illustrierte published in advance on Saturday. However, the extent of the job cuts is not yet known. Nothing has been decided yet either. BaZ already made around 30 editorial staff members redundant last year.
Somm sees a good future for himself at BaZ. He will continue to work as editor-in-chief at the newspaper for a few more years. He has enjoyed his job and had a good start. He explains the fact that the editorial team demanded his departure during the turbulence of recent weeks with his "strong profile" as a journalist. He had caused unrest in the city. For Basel, it was new to be able to read a high-profile bourgeois position in the newspaper - and even from the editor-in-chief himself.
The sale of Basler Zeitung Medien BZM from the duo Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner to Suter was announced on Wednesday. Tettamanti said in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Saturday that his involvement with BaZ was an "investment in a regional newspaper" and a pure "business". He wanted to separate the publishing house and the printing plant. Christoph Blocher's company Robinvest should have provided analyses for this. Robinvest could also have been interested in taking over the printing company, said the 80-year-old investor from Ticino in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund newspapers.
The harsh reactions to the mandate of SVP Vice President and former Federal Councillor Blocher ensured that Tettamanti left the Basler Zeitung after just ten months. In interviews, Tettamanti repeated his pithy words against the reactions in Basel: he spoke of intolerance, hatred and bigotry. The reactions were also extremely harsh for Blocher: "What has happened in Basel in the last two weeks borders on witch-burning," he said in interviews with the Sonntag and Sonntagszeitung newspapers.
Somm sees a good future for himself at BaZ. He will continue to work as editor-in-chief at the newspaper for a few more years. He has enjoyed his job and had a good start. He explains the fact that the editorial team demanded his departure during the turbulence of recent weeks with his "strong profile" as a journalist. He had caused unrest in the city. For Basel, it was new to be able to read a high-profile bourgeois position in the newspaper - and even from the editor-in-chief himself.
The sale of Basler Zeitung Medien BZM from the duo Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner to Suter was announced on Wednesday. Tettamanti said in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Saturday that his involvement with BaZ was an "investment in a regional newspaper" and a pure "business". He wanted to separate the publishing house and the printing plant. Christoph Blocher's company Robinvest should have provided analyses for this. Robinvest could also have been interested in taking over the printing company, said the 80-year-old investor from Ticino in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund newspapers.
The harsh reactions to the mandate of SVP Vice President and former Federal Councillor Blocher ensured that Tettamanti left the Basler Zeitung after just ten months. In interviews, Tettamanti repeated his pithy words against the reactions in Basel: he spoke of intolerance, hatred and bigotry. The reactions were also extremely harsh for Blocher: "What has happened in Basel in the last two weeks borders on witch-burning," he said in interviews with the Sonntag and Sonntagszeitung newspapers.
