From Anna ErnestExactly two weeks after the announcement of the massive clear-cut plans, Thomas Rabe, CEO of the parent company Bertelsmann and CEO of the subsidiary RTL Germany, contacted his workforce again. source site
From Saskia AleytheOne last interview and then it's over. Judka Strittmatter has already led it, like so many for geo season, but the magazine will soon be gone. Now just type and edit, settle a final fee, "that will be my departure," she says. She completed her training as an editor in Hamburg at the Henri Nannen School - "those were great years". As a freelance journalist, Strittmatter has a lot in common with Gruner + Jahr. "I feel connected...
From Saskia AleytheOne last interview and then it's over. Judka Strittmatter has already led it, like so many for geo season, but the magazine will soon be gone. Now just type and edit, settle a final fee, "that will be my departure," she says. She completed her training as an editor in Hamburg at the Henri Nannen School - "those were great years". As a freelance journalist, Strittmatter has a lot in common with Gruner + Jahr. "I feel connected...
From Anna ErnestThe decision by Bertelsmann and RTL-Deutschland to discontinue many magazines from the Gruner + Jahr portfolio and cut hundreds of jobs has far-reaching consequences not only for the publisher and Hamburg as a media location. Retail is also concerned. If 23 issues are actually to be published in the future, that will tear large gaps in the magazine shelves of kiosks, supermarkets, petrol stations and many other shops. In a conversation with the SZ, the press wholesale trade...
The magazine "Art" is successful, as the balance sheets show. That Bertelsmann is now selling it is bizarre. And possibly a chance.From Anna Ernst and Jörg HaentzschelYou meet them in Venice at the Art Biennale or at the Documenta in Kassel: the married couples of lawyers or teachers in their prime, who with the already worked through on the way there kind- Pull the special issue through the exhibitions in the shoulder bag. They belong to the core readership of...
1000 jobs gone: How do you prepare for the big cut at Bertelsmann? Insight into the management of the group. source site
The magazine "Art" is successful, as the balance sheets show. That Bertelsmann is now selling it is bizarre. And possibly a chance.From Anna Ernst and Jörg HaentzschelYou meet them in Venice at the Art Biennale or at the Documenta in Kassel: the married couples of lawyers or teachers in their prime, who with the already worked through on the way there kind- Pull the special issue through the exhibitions in the shoulder bag. They belong to the core readership of...
The uncertainties in the editorial offices at Gruner + Jahr are enormous these days. After RTL and Bertelsmann announced that at least 700 jobs at the magazine publisher in Hamburg would be cut last week, many permanent and freelancers fear for their jobs. It is still unclear in which departments and editorial departments how many jobs are to be cut. Now there is at least one first important personnel decision: the business magazine capital gets a new editor-in-chief.Timo Pache will...
Gruner + Jahr was the entertainment company that changed this country with "Stern", "Eltern" and "Brigitte": To say goodbye to a large press house from German history. From Willie WinklerOn Tuesday that evening paper was there live, it got "emotional" in Hamburg am Baumwall: "Tears flowed," they even soaked the front page when it became known that the top RTL and Bertelsmann manager Thomas Rabe was not just cutting seven hundred jobs at Gruner + Jahr , but will discontinue...
Interviewed by Anna ErnestHamburg faces a difficult future: On Tuesday, Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe announced that 23 magazines and 700 jobs in Gruner + Jahr's magazine business were to be cut. How can the Hanseatic city deal with this? An interview with media senator Carsten Brosda (SPD) about the turbulent past of the traditional publisher, the possibilities of political help - and the mistakes that the media industry makes. source site
