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SRF’s national television editorial team is not entirely satisfied with the current situation in the newsroom. Now the team has acted as one. In an email made available to VIEW, the editors strongly criticize the circumstances on Swiss television and demand that the editor-in-chief carry out an internal analysis to improve it. The letter was sent to all senior editorial staff, including SRF chief Nathalie Wappler (52).
In email, employees choose a combative choice of words: “Too often we feel constrained by overriding decisions as critical journalists, ignored as engaged editors, and restricted as engaged employees.” In the newsroom, this leads to “a sense of external control and a lack of creative freedom and thus dissatisfaction.” Bad moods are also the reason for outings, “especially from talented and team-spirited colleagues.”
Three major shortcomings in writing
The national television editorial team cites three major deficiencies in current newsroom structures:
• They require too much coordination and therefore too many unnecessary agreements.
• Creates too much skill fighting and therefore a cranky work atmosphere.
• You avoid too many contribution ideas and therefore journalistic efficiency.
That is why the letter requires SRF to carry out a “proper and cost-effective analysis of the current writing structures.” The aim is to “assess current newsroom structures on an empirical basis, independent of role and person.” Particularly racy: TV and online publishers should be at war with each other: “The analysis may show the reasons for the unsatisfactory cooperation between us and our online colleagues to this day.”
A VIEW request to the SRF on how to react to the mail has not received a response so far.
