Tamedia merges editorial teams and cuts jobs
Published: Tuesday, Sep 17th 2024, 12:00
Updated At: Tuesday, Sep 17th 2024, 13:50
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The Zurich-based media company Tamedia is reorganizing its editorial offices and implementing the job cuts announced at the end of August. The number of full-time positions affected will fall from the original 90 to 55.
These personnel measures are expected to affect 30 full-time positions in German-speaking Switzerland and 25 full-time positions in French-speaking Switzerland, the company announced on Tuesday. According to the press release, the reduction of 90 full-time positions announced at the end of August was reduced through internal transfers and by not filling vacancies.
The job cuts are subject to the consultation procedure. A social plan will be applied, which will include early retirement.
In future, there will still be four editorial teams for the daily and Sunday titles in Zurich, Bern, Basel and French-speaking Switzerland, according to the press release. These will plan and develop their content in close cooperation.
The editors-in-chief of the four brands are Raphaela Birrer, currently editor-in-chief of "Tages-Anzeiger", Claude Ansermoz for "24 heures", Wolf Röcken for "BZ Berner Zeitung" and Marcel Rohr for "Basler Zeitung". The editorial teams of "Schweizer Familie", "Finanz und Wirtschaft" and "Bilan" remain unchanged.
"Züritipp" disappears
This restructuring will also have a drastic impact on the "Züritipp": It will be discontinued as a separate supplement at the end of 2024, according to the statement. Selected content will appear in the "Tages-Anzeiger" in future. In addition, the BZ split Langenthaler Tagblatt will be merged with the Emmental edition of the Berner Zeitung over the course of next year.
The company is also integrating the editorial offices of the Zurich regional newspapers (Landbote, Zürichsee-Zeitung, Zürcher Unterländer) into the Zurich editorial office. In future, it will be managed centrally by Editor-in-Chief Raphaela Birrer. The regional newspapers currently have editorial offices in Winterthur ZH, Wädenswil ZH and Bülach ZH.
According to the press release, the SonntagsZeitung team will also be integrated into the editorial team in Zurich. The editorial team of the Bernese Oberland titles (Thuner Tagblatt, Berner Oberländer) will be headed by BZ editor-in-chief Wolf Röcken.
In French-speaking Switzerland, the editorial teams of "Tribune de Genève" and "24 heures" and "Le Matin Dimanche" will form one editorial team in future. The "Tribune de Genève" will continue to have its own digital presence and be published as a newspaper.
The magazine "Femina" will be integrated into the Romandie editorial team and will continue to appear monthly as a supplement in "Le Matin Dimanche" and now also in "24 heures" and "Tribune de Genève".
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