Commuter newspaper News to be discontinued with immediate effect
The commuter newspaper News will be discontinued as of today, Friday. This was announced by Tamedia in a press release on Friday. This leaves 20 Minuten and Blick am Abend in the Swiss commuter newspaper market.
In the past few months since the departure of Basler Zeitung and Berner Zeitung, the media house Tamedia has examined various strategies to save News. In the foreground was an even closer cooperation with the Tages-Anzeiger, which would also have included an extensive advertising combination, the Tamedia press release continues. However, customer surveys had shown that the associated impact on the Tages-Anzeiger's advertising rates would not have been acceptable. The Board of Directors and Management Board of Tamedia have therefore decided to discontinue the commuter newspaper News. The Tages-Anzeiger media group is thus concentrating on the further development of the Tages-Anzeiger and the news portal Tagesanzeiger.ch as part of the Newsnetz.
As a result, 20 jobs will be cut in the editorial department. This will affect 27 employees. As far as possible, new positions will be sought in other media within the company, Tamedia added. The social plan negotiated with employee representatives and trade unions for Tages-Anzeiger and Druckzentrum in June 2009 will apply to all those affected. The measures are subject to the employees' participation rights.
News was launched in December 2007 with four regional editions: News Basler Zeitung, News Berner Zeitung, News Mittelland and News Tages-Anzeiger. After the News Mittelland edition had already been discontinued in December 2008, the partners Basler Zeitung and Berner Zeitung decided in August 2009 not to continue the Basel and Bern editions. Since then, News Tages-Anzeiger has been published with a circulation of 100,000 copies in the canton of Zurich and in the central stations of the S-Bahn network in the neighboring cantons.
As a result, 20 jobs will be cut in the editorial department. This will affect 27 employees. As far as possible, new positions will be sought in other media within the company, Tamedia added. The social plan negotiated with employee representatives and trade unions for Tages-Anzeiger and Druckzentrum in June 2009 will apply to all those affected. The measures are subject to the employees' participation rights.
News was launched in December 2007 with four regional editions: News Basler Zeitung, News Berner Zeitung, News Mittelland and News Tages-Anzeiger. After the News Mittelland edition had already been discontinued in December 2008, the partners Basler Zeitung and Berner Zeitung decided in August 2009 not to continue the Basel and Bern editions. Since then, News Tages-Anzeiger has been published with a circulation of 100,000 copies in the canton of Zurich and in the central stations of the S-Bahn network in the neighboring cantons.
