Job cuts at AZ Medien: Imprint calls for preservation of editorial positions
The association of media professionals in Switzerland Imprint today called for the preservation of editorial jobs following the announced cutback of around 70 full-time positions at AZ Medien. This is because the AZ Medien Group has a major journalistic and social responsibility.
The association of media professionals in Switzerland Imprint today called for the preservation of editorial jobs following the announced cutback of around 70 full-time positions at AZ Medien. This is because the AZ Medien Group has a major journalistic and social responsibility.
In a communiqué, the association appealed to the media company's journalistic responsibility and called on it to use reserves and refrain as far as possible from cutting journalistic jobs. Socially acceptable solutions are demanded for those who have been made redundant and those who have taken early retirement. AZ Medien controls various media in the Mittelland and northwestern Switzerland. In some regions, it has a virtual monopoly on information and thus a major journalistic and social responsibility.
In particular, savings are to be made through the use of synergies. Using synergies means that media within a group exchange their information, articles and contributions. The diversity of information is decreasing, and the diversity of opinion, which is vital for democracy, is being put at risk. One doubts the economic predicament and that the dissolution of reserves will not save editorial jobs and thus the quality of journalistic products through the current crisis.
Imprint asks the company to accept the offer of the social partners to find, through their support, an optimal distribution of the funds that AZ Medien provides for social cushioning for those affected.
In a communiqué, the association appealed to the media company's journalistic responsibility and called on it to use reserves and refrain as far as possible from cutting journalistic jobs. Socially acceptable solutions are demanded for those who have been made redundant and those who have taken early retirement. AZ Medien controls various media in the Mittelland and northwestern Switzerland. In some regions, it has a virtual monopoly on information and thus a major journalistic and social responsibility.
In particular, savings are to be made through the use of synergies. Using synergies means that media within a group exchange their information, articles and contributions. The diversity of information is decreasing, and the diversity of opinion, which is vital for democracy, is being put at risk. One doubts the economic predicament and that the dissolution of reserves will not save editorial jobs and thus the quality of journalistic products through the current crisis.
Imprint asks the company to accept the offer of the social partners to find, through their support, an optimal distribution of the funds that AZ Medien provides for social cushioning for those affected.
