
The magazine "Poster" is closed, and the whole editors are fired. This was reported on Facebook by several former employees of the publication at once.
“Well, that’s all. We were all fired,” wrote journalist Elina Markina. “The editors have been dismissed and is now negotiating compensation,” her colleague Nina Nazarova added .
As Daniil Trabun, editor -in -chief of Afisha, told The Village , the entire team of the publication was formally fired, including him. "We are now in limbo. The issue is being resolved," he said.
The managing director of Varvara Melnikova clarified that so far it is only about reducing the editorial office of a paper journal. “The editorial office of Afisha” is at least 3 projects. The magazine is one of them. So the editorial office of a paper magazine is really reducing in connection with the decision to change the magazine format, which was said yesterday <...> the magazine’s editorial office, we may work with many. The rest continue to work, do not worry, ”she wrote on Facebook .
The day before, the publisher of Medusa and the former chief editor of Afisha Ilya Krasilchik wrote a column in which he suggested such a development of events. "The formal press release is more - in fact, we are talking about the complete change of the team and the dismissal of most employees," he suggested.
On the first of December, it became known that the "poster" will go out once a quarter, and not every month. The company Rambler & Co, which includes the "poster", said that a new publication strategy is currently being worked out.
“The guys from Esquire, Maxim magazines have already joined us, and I hope the best people from the current poster team will stay with us,” the directorate said.
The Magazine "Poster" has been published since April 1999. Until the beginning of 2015, I went out twice a month. In February 2015, the magazine "Poster" was turned into a monthly man.