Nearly 3 weeks after the primary e-newsletter of the Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (OAZ), its editor-in-chief Dorian Baganz is leaving the editorial staff. He’s leaving his place in an instant at his non-public request, consistent with a observation from the East German media retaining, which was once additionally reported by means of the Berliner Zeitung.
Baganz himself introduced that on March 11 he exercised the way to terminate the employment dating at brief understand all over the trial length. “Different ideas about the direction of the content played a role in this decision, as well as questions about personal collaboration,” Baganz stated in a observation.
The writer Holger Friedrich handiest offered Baganc because the editor-in-chief of OAZ initially of February. Baganz was once due to this fact considerably concerned within the building section of the brand new media undertaking. Friedrich thanked him “for his commitment during the intensive development phase of our project.”
No “East German Biography”
In step with the East German media retaining, the successor to the editor-in-chief remains to be open. OAZ director Dirk Jemlich stated many readers sought after an editor-in-chief “with an East German background.” “We take this feedback very seriously.” Baganz, born in 1993, is from Duisburg. He up to now wrote on local weather problems for the left-wing weekly Der Freitag and headed the economics division there.
Friedrich introduced OAZ to the marketplace on February 20. The paper is printed on Fridays in revealed shape, and on different days in virtual shape. It’s printed by means of the brand new Ostdeutscher Verlag. The founding father of OAZ, Friedrich, is an IT millionaire and a local of East Berlin. Along side his spouse Silke, he purchased Berliner Verlag in 2019, which contains Berliner Kurier and Berliner Zeitung, in addition to the brand new version of Weltbuhne.
After the e-newsletter of the primary factor, the brand new newspaper for the East was once severely evaluated by means of the business. In step with Die Zeit, the newspaper reinforces reasonably than refutes stereotypes about East Germans.
Extra concerning the subject
Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Z+ (subscription-based content material); “Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”: So isser, Ossi (consistent with Holger Friedrich) Z+ (content material matter to subscription); “Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”: Does East Germany desire a new newspaper?
