Tamedia: Merger of regional editorial offices
Tamedia is exploring the possibility of merging the regional newsrooms of the *Tages-Anzeiger* and the regional newspapers. For the first time, company officials provided figures on how many jobs might be eliminated in the case of the Zurich Unterland region.
This is said to involve 8 to 10 jobs. This was confirmed by Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer according to SDA. If Tamedia were to merge the editorial offices, the number of jobs that would be saved would correspond to the number in the smaller of the two editorial offices, according to Zimmer. However, nothing is definite yet.
Tamedia theoretically has until the end of 2010 to complete the restructuring. This is because the cooperation between the Landbote and the Thurgauer Zeitung will then expire, with the Thurgau paper moving to the NZZ and being integrated into the Thurgau edition of the St.Galler Tagblatt, which is owned by the NZZ. In return, NZZ sells its Landzeitung holdings to Tamedia. The regional newspapers include the Zürcher Unterländer, the Zürcher Oberländer and the Zürichsee Zeitung. The latter was previously majority-owned by the Gut publishing family. As of 2010, the Zürichsee Zeitung is now also fully owned by Tamedia.
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Tamedia theoretically has until the end of 2010 to complete the restructuring. This is because the cooperation between the Landbote and the Thurgauer Zeitung will then expire, with the Thurgau paper moving to the NZZ and being integrated into the Thurgau edition of the St.Galler Tagblatt, which is owned by the NZZ. In return, NZZ sells its Landzeitung holdings to Tamedia. The regional newspapers include the Zürcher Unterländer, the Zürcher Oberländer and the Zürichsee Zeitung. The latter was previously majority-owned by the Gut publishing family. As of 2010, the Zürichsee Zeitung is now also fully owned by Tamedia.
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