Covenant editorial office urged to cancel
The departure of editor-in-chief Artur Vogel from the Bund was not entirely voluntary, writes Medienwoche. The Bund editorial team had been pushing for the removal of its chief in recent months.
Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer told Medienwoche that Vogel had resigned "at his own request. Zimmer did not say, however, whether the publisher had suggested this step to him.
Vogel vehemently contradicts this version, but several Bund employees who were interviewed independently of each other would agree: Without the protest notes from the editorial staff, Vogel would have remained in office, because the publisher would never have found out how things really stood with the management of the traditional paper.
For the Bund editorial team, Vogel's behavior apparently increasingly developed into a mortgage. The biggest problem, according to Media Week article the extensive traveling of the editor-in-chief. Because he was regularly absent for long periods of time, Vogler increasingly lost touch with the editorial team. As a result, his actions were not sufficiently anchored in the daily editorial business. Employees found it increasingly difficult to understand Vogel's decisions. The circumstances that led to Vogel's departure were even referred to internally as a "palace revolution.
Another problem, according to the article, was Vogel's writing deficit in daily politics. For example, he didn't think it necessary to comment on the last elections at the municipal, cantonal, as well as federal level. "It has always been my principle to let those comment who understand more about the matter than I do," Vogel is quoted as saying.
