The article about the Bernese elections is about the refusal of the incumbent members of the Bernese government to fill out the questionnaires of the online voting tool "Smartvote" before the elections this year, which became known in mid-January. The government members justified this with the principle of collegiality.
The author of the Capital-article examines the question of what this refusal says about the incumbent members of the Bernese government and what it says about the canton of Bern.
The Capital is an online magazine based on the merger of the editorial teams of Confederation and Bernese Newspaper by Tamedia last year is declining. The capital wants to contribute to maintaining media diversity in the greater Bern area and offer good local journalism, primarily in the areas of politics, society and culture.
Role models are other Swiss online platforms such as Tsueri in Zurich, Bajour in Basel and the Republic.
3400 subscriptions already sold
In recent months, the sponsoring association has successfully raised money: Around 3400 people have taken out a subscription and foundations have pledged support. This enables a start with ten people in five full-time positions.
As co-initiator Jürg Steiner said on Monday upon request, the goal of the Capital-editorial team to now publish one article every day. In principle, these are protected by a pay barrier, but according to Steiner, this was not yet functioning on Monday (sda).
The portal is online at the address capital.be to find.
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As they write in a release, independent online portals such as. Tsueri in Zurich, Bajour in Basel and the supra-regional portal Republic Role models. The goal of the crowdfunding campaign is to gain 1,000 subscribers within a month. Once this goal is reached, the initiators consider the demand to be proven.
The Capital but does not start with 1000 subscriptions yet: In addition, start-up financing is necessary. According to the announcement, the initiators of the planned portal are in contact with various supporters, who make their commitment dependent on the success of the fundraising campaign, among other things.
The initiators of the project are Marina Bolzli, Joël Widmer and Jürg Steiner. Bolzli is a cultural journalist and author, Widmer worked among other things as editor of the Swiss Federal Parliament and media spokesman for Greenpeace. Jürg Steiner wrote for 20 years for the Bernese Newspaper.
Team of fifteen
To the today fifteen-member Capital-But the team also includes people with IT, social media, fundraising and business management skills. If the start is successful, the Capital with five full-time positions.
The fact that recently the two Bernese daily newspapers The Covenant and Bernese Newspaper produced by a single editorial team was, according to the CapitalThe project was given the "indirect go-ahead" by the project's creators. The aim is to counteract the loss of media diversity in Bern. The plan is to provide "understandable, accessible, persistent and constructive local journalism.
Several well-known actors of Bern give on the website of the Capital already indicated their intention to buy a subscription. These include Bern's city president Alec von Graffenried, crime novelist Christine Brand and cyclist Marlen Reusser. (SDA)
]]>In order to be able to continue publishing the magazine in the future, publisher Reda El Arbi is now founding an association in which all existing subscribers will automatically become members. The satirical magazine Hauptstadt thus becomes a club magazine. The next issue will not be published until the beginning of May instead of April, as it will take some time to set up the association and capitalize it.
The lack of advertisements is the magazine's main problem. In order to still be able to generate revenue, the publisher is now offering its content to other media. Anyone who wants to "publish something nasty" can buy articles from him and publish them under the Hauptstadt brand, El Arbi writes on the website. With this offer, he is primarily targeting serious media. The satirical magazine was launched on October 1, 2010 with a circulation of 10,000 copies.