after one Report of the NDR anti-corruption officer An investigation by two NDR journalists now also relieves NDR director Sabine Rossbach. It was against the boss of the state radio station in Hamburg Allegations of possible nepotism and favoring relatives given. Rossbach is currently on hiatus and plans to resign early next April. The research unit of the NDR had previously reported that the television archive of the NDR contained “several hundred articles about or with the customers of the PR company” that Rossbach’s daughter manages. The two journalists Siv Stippekohl – she is head of multimedia culture at the Landesfunkhaus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – and Eckhardt Reimann – the deputy editor-in-chief of Hello Lower Saxony – found no evidence of illegal program interventions, or that Rossbach had used her work to “procure the PR agency of her daughter in an illegal way advantages through reporting by the Hamburg state radio station,” as the broadcaster reports. However, after 70 appraisal interviews and inspection of files, the two criticized Rossbach’s “management and communication style”. It was said that this not only led to a loss of trust, but also to a lack of transparency. The appearance of a possible favoritism could have been avoided by clarity.
Investigation by NDR journalists: Sabine Rossbach exonerated again – media
