Waz cuts 300 jobs
The Waz Media Group plans to cut about 300 editorial positions. The staff reductions are to be implemented «as socially responsible as possible,» and the Waz hopes to avoid layoffs for operational reasons.
The Waz Media Group wants to cut around 300 editorial positions. The staff cuts are to be implemented "as socially responsible as possible" and the Waz hopes to be able to avoid redundancies. So far, around 200 employees are said to have been offered the option of taking part-time retirement or concluding a termination agreement.
The Waz wants to save a total of 32 million euros in the current year. The national sections of the three major NRW newspapers Waz, Neue Ruhr Zeitung/Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) and Westfälische Rundschau (WR) are to be produced by a joint editorial team from spring.
The Waz wants to save a total of 32 million euros in the current year. The national sections of the three major NRW newspapers Waz, Neue Ruhr Zeitung/Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) and Westfälische Rundschau (WR) are to be produced by a joint editorial team from spring.
