Germany: Montgomery continues to incite anger at Berliner Zeitung
Montgomery, former Mirror Group chief executive, took over the Berliner Zeitung at the end of last year and became the first foreign owner of a German publishing group. Since then, the staff has bemoaned its new investor owners and feared a “dumbing-down” of the publication, according to the Independent.
While the journalists continue to gripe and threatening “to strike for real,” they are continuing to put out the paper — but under the constant fear of job cuts.
“The anxiety is well founded,” Stefen Grimberg, media editor at the left-leaning Taz broadsheet, told the Independent. “The only way Montgomery can achieve his 20 percent return on investment in the current climate is by cutting staff. He’s not going to do it by increasing circulation or advertising revenues, because the increases would have to be massive.”
Source: The Independent (through Ifra Executive News Service)
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