After a meeting in the state studio of ORF Lower Austria, state director Ziegler gives the current report to ORF radio director Ingrid Thurnher. Meanwhile, critical voices from other state studios are also increasing.
The ones in chats and emails documented interventions on the ORF Lower Austria under the former editor-in-chief and current state director, Robert Ziegler, led to personnel consequences on Monday evening: Ziegler initially hands over his agenda to the ORF radio boss Ingrid Thurnheruntil the ORF General Director Roland Weißmann appointed commission delivered results. Weißmann initially announced this on Monday in order to investigate the allegations once morest Ziegler. The ORF editorial board had previously demanded Ziegler’s immediate suspension. However, Ziegler is not completely relinquishing his post. According to a broadcast, the current reporting is in the hands of editor-in-chief Benedikt Fuchs.
The commission’s announcement is likely to have been made on Monday before the end of a meeting at which Ziegler faced the editors for the first time since the allegations became known. In this, which lasted around 1.5 hours, employees gradually spoke up and confirmed the allegations: “The mood has changed,” says one of the “press”.
