On Tuesday, up to 40 employees were registered for termination in the AMS early warning system. The media company also announced a change at the top of the editorial team in a broadcast on Wednesday: Martin Gebhart will replace Martina Salomon as editor-in-chief on March 1st. Salomon becomes editor.
“Dismissals very regrettable”
The planned layoffs of up to 40 people are “very regrettable, but necessary to secure a successful entrepreneurial future for ‘Kurier’,” “Kurier” managing director Richard Grasl was quoted as saying. A comprehensive social plan was drawn up with the works council.
The upheavals in the media industry would make a realignment inevitable. Therefore there is also a change in the editor-in-chief. From March 1st, the previous “Kurier” domestic policy department head Martin Gebhart will take over the role of editor-in-chief.
Salomon becomes editor
He replaces Martina Salomon, who will act as editor in the future. “I will continue to be available to the readers of ‘Kurier’ as an editorial writer, with major interviews and at our numerous events,” she announced. She will also continue to carry out her duties in the Association of Editors-in-Chief, the Press Council and the Concordia Press Club.
Salomon has acted as editor-in-chief since 2018. She has been deputy at “Kurier” since 2010. Editor-in-chief on board. In 2012 she also became head of the economics department. Before working at the “Kurier”, she worked at the “Presse” as head of the domestic policy department.
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