Readers supported the editorial office "Lenta.ru"

Readers of the online publication "Lenta.ru" are ready to finance his work with the previous journalistic team. The initiative has already been supported by more than 2300 people.

On Wednesday, March 12, the owner of the Afisha-Rabler-Sup company, Alexander Mamut, fired the editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru Galina Timchenko and appointed Alexei Gororevsky, Deputy General Director for External Communications, who had previously headed the Skremlinsky School of views.

Soon, Lenta.ru journalists published a statement in which they actually refused to work with the new editor -in -chief, and the dismissal of Galina Timchenko was called the pressure on the editorial office and the act of censorship.

“There is a team of first -class journalists who cannot and will not want to work with Gorreslavsky. They will not be able to work for free. - It is said to be addressed to readers "Lenta.ru" on the website Change.org . - If you give this group to crumble, we will find out the news again by rumors and "foreign voices." One of the options for not allowing this is to become a collective investor of the Timchenko team, so that in a new place she continues to make a real "feed.ru". "

“Attendance at the site in the current form is such [about 12 million visitors per month - colta.ru], which is enough for each of the readers to allocate the most painless amount from its money. We do not know what budget the Lenta.ru has, but we can estimate that if at least a quarter of the two -millionth daily audience "Lenta.ru" once a month will give one hundred rubles, it will turn out 25 million. This is probably enough, ”the initiators of the crowdfunding campaign hope.

“We do not know if the expensive edition will accept this proposal, but it will be good if we make it. So far, you just need to count how many of us. Subscribe. "

At 13:45 Moscow time on March 13, more than 2300 people voted for the initiative on Change.org .