SDA: Offices in Neuchâtel and Fribourg to be closed
The Swiss News Agency (SDA) is implementing the cost-cutting measures it announced in November 2009. The regional newsrooms in Neuchâtel and Fribourg will be closed. Operations will be consolidated at the Biel location.
SDA must save a total of two million francs by the end of 2010. In French-speaking Switzerland, it was previously unclear which offices would be affected by the closure. The decision has now been made, as the SDA management announced on Tuesday. In addition to Neuchâtel and Fribourg, SDA will also be closing its office in Frauenfeld in German-speaking Switzerland in the course of 2010. In Frauenfeld, one position with two people is affected, in Neuchâtel it is one position with one person. The SDA correspondent in Fribourg is now working at the head office in Bern. The relocation will ensure reporting from all affected regions, the agency wrote in a press release on Tuesday.
