Tagi: Culture editorial team loses three jobs
From Wednesday through Friday last week, the previously announced layoff meetings took place at the Tages-Anzeiger. In the culture department, the cutbacks resulted in the loss of three positions.
Now that the fog has lifted somewhat over the downsizing battle at the Tages-Anzeiger, the picture of the extent of the job cuts made by the publisher last week between Wednesday and Friday is becoming increasingly clear. The culture editorial department will lose three jobs, a "major bloodletting" according to an internal source. The fee budget for freelancers will also be cut by 25 percent; this is likely to be the case in the other departments as well. Writing fees are not to be reduced, however, but the trend is towards fewer assignments being published. The deadline for the new newspaper concept and layout is still the end of August or beginning of September 2009.
