Means of mass reputation. 6 examples of collective dismissal of journalists

On May 20, a special correspondent of the Kommersant Publishing House Ivan Safronov and editor Maxim Ivanov said that they were dismissed by decision of a shareholder due to an article on the resignation of the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. As a sign of solidarity with colleagues, 11 employees of the policy department submitted the dismissal statement. Later, Kommersant's journalists distributed a collective appeal in which they warned about the impossibility of writing about Russian politics in the near future due to a conflict with Alisher Usmanov. This is far from the first case in Russian media, when, for various reasons, the publication left a significant part of the editorial office. The Insider recalls the most loud of them.

Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1992

In 1992, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda left a large group of journalists who did not agree with a change in editorial policy. The newspaper was privatized and changed its concept to an entertaining one.

Former employees of Komsomolskaya Pravda, among whom were Dmitry Muratov, Sergey Kushnerev, Pavel Voshchaanov, Akram Murtazaev, Dmitry Sabov and others founded a new edition - the New Gazeta.

“In Komsomolskaya Pravda, the business stood in front of the content. At first she played the yellow newspaper, and then she became it. I do not accept a filthy attitude towards people. And the team, which left with me, created a “new newspaper” and the program “Wait for me”, in my opinion, the best on our television, ”said Muratov.

Izvestia, 2012

Employees of the St. Petersburg edition of Izvestia resigned from the publication in 2012, after the Izvestia was transferred to the department of Aram Gabrelyanov , the creator of the News Media holding (issues Life, the Life and Your Day tabloids ).

As one of the departed Anna Asmolova said, the journalists “considered it impossible to work tightly with Aram Gabrelyanov as part of the“ Life ”: “ They left without saying a word: everyone made the decision on their own. And everyone understood: time to leave. I then voluntarily abandoned the editorial position . ”

"Gazeta.ru", 2013

In 2011, when the leadership of Gazeta.ru decided to remove the banner of a joint project from the site with the Golos human rights organization, within the framework of which readers reported violations during the election campaign, deputy editor -in -chief Roman Badanin resigned.

A year later, when the owner of the SUP Media holding, which issued Gazeta.ru, became Alexander Mamut, the editor -in -chief Mikhail Kotov left the publication, and Svetlana Babaeva took the place of Svetlana Lolaeva replaced him in 2013. As a result, the policy department almost completely changed. Many journalists who illuminated the election campaigns of 2011 and 2012 left.

Lenta.ru, 2014

In 2014, 39 journalists immediatelyquit from Lenta.ru . In total, 84 people worked in the publication at that time. In full force, employees of the departments of Russia, Mir, Internet and Media, analysts and test control resigned. Five special correspondents left, in the departments of "Culture" and "Science and Technology" there were one person left.

All this happened against the backdrop of the dismissal of the chief editor of Lenta.ru Galina Timchenko. The owner of the publication, the head of the Rambler holding, Alexander Mamut, did not name the reason for the dismissal. Journalists considered this an act of censorship after the warning, which Roskomnadzor issued Lente.ru for a link to an interview with the Ukrainian nationalist Dmitry Yarosh in the material of the special correspondent Ilya Azar.

Russian Planet, 2014

In December 2014, investors fired the editor -in -chief of the Russian Planet publication Pavel Pryanikov and appointed a new leadership. The editorial office announced that the publication will be reformatted taking into account the opinions of the owners. After that, most journalists who did not agree with the change in the head of the publication and a change in the publication policy left the Russian planet.

The source of RBC said that two months before these events, the investor suddenly decided to put things in order in the editorial office: “Pincion went on vacation, and the external management was actually introduced to us. All the texts were personally read out by Isaev, some he sent to the commissars from Morton <Morton construction company - an investor of the publication, the head of its advertising structure, Alexander Isaev, became the new editor -in -chief - approx. The Insider>. A certain number of texts were shot, including absolutely harmless from a political point of view. ”

Poster, 2015

In December 2015, the editorial board of the magazine "Poster" was dismissed . Before that, it became known that the "poster" will go out 4 times a year, and not once a month. The leadership reported that he was working on a new magazine strategy and was gaining a new team.

The PR manager of the project Anastasia Shvetsova explained the dismissal that "most of the journal employees have no examination in the digital products that the poster will now distribute."

RBC, 2016

In 2016, the leadership of RBC - the chief editor of the holding Elizabeth Ossetian, editor -in -chief of the information agency Roman Badanin, and the chief editor of the newspaper Maxim Solus, was dismissed. The holding General Director Nikolai Molibog explained this decision “by disagreements on some important issues”: “Recently, we talked a lot about how to further develop RBC, and in these conversations we could not come to a consensus regarding important issues, so we decided to part.”

Reuters, citing his sources, wrote that Badanina, Ossetian and Solus were fired at the request of the Kremlin after the article “ opposite the Palace of Putin” was published near Gelendzhik will begin to breed oysters . ” The average reasons were also given publications of materials on Panama Dossier and about Putin's daughter Ekaterina Tikhonova.

Following the leadership of RBC, 20 journalists resigned, among whom were eight deputy chief editor, four heads of directions, services and editors of departments and one special correspondent.