Editor Sjuul Paradise leaves from De Telegraaf – nrc.nl

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Sjuul Paradise steps immediately as chief editor of De Telegraaf. That made the Telegraaf Media Group (TMG) last night announced in a statement. His departure comes after reports of unrest in the newspaper.

Paradise looks back gratefully

Although deputy editor Jan-Kees Bucket coming time the first contact for the newspaper will be the function of Paradise will be temporarily divided among the members of the editorial. In the statement of TMG let Paradise know with “gratitude” to look back at his nearly thirty-year career at De Telegraaf:

“With great gratitude I look back on 29 years I serve the readers have been able to do my journalistic work and the interests of De Telegraaf could serve. All Telegraph Staff I wish success in their work to the group and to make the TMG even stronger than they are now. “

Harry de Wit, director of TMG National Media, late Reuters news agency that he and Paradise Sunday decided that the editor had to leave the newspaper. De Wit:

“I’m Sjuul grateful for his contributions to our organization over the years. He has all these years fought hard for De Telegraaf “

Loss-making De Telegraaf shred

Whether the departure of Paradise has something to do with the recently unveiled unrest in the Telegraph is unclear. In April it was announced that TMG had plans to divide the paper into several separate – and better exploit commercially in that way – booklets. Revealed leaked mails that they were parts such as Private, Telesport, De Financiële Telegraaf, Autovisie and Woman.

This fragmentation could make to help TMG profitable again. The company suffered last year 34 million euro loss because, among other revenue from paper advertisements declined by 20 percent. Also weblog GeenStijl and advertising site Speurders.nl make losses. The edition of De Telegraaf falling for years

editors disagreed with plans to shred the paper. Paradise might even have had a blazing row with publisher De Wit. The former editor would lose with this fragmentation editorial control over these leading sections.

29 years Paradise

Sjuul Paradise takes along with the editor of De Telegraaf a minute’s silence observed for the victims of the attack on the weekly Charlie Hebdo. January 9, 2015 Photos Remko de Waal / ANP

October 2014 Paradise yet discussed the new format of the Telegraph RTL Late Night. He said the newspaper as a new medium still “Certainly twenty or twenty-five years” will last, “because it is the content that is in the newspaper.”

Paradise from 1986, TMG. As a reporter, he joined The Echo and moved in 1988 to the Financial Times. In 2005 he became deputy editor of the newspaper, and from 2009 he was editor in chief.

Paradise founded in 2009, the public broadcaster WNL on. Boosted by a campaign in De Telegraaf was broadcast two weeks after setting the required 50,000 members to apply for the status of aspiring broadcaster. Since 2010, the broadcaster, which is independent of TMG, on radio and television

In November 2009 WNL was admitted to the public system:.

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