Recently, journalists from the editorial board of Guangdong Times Media Group’s New Weekly magazine resigned and issued a collective statement.
Recently, journalists from the editorial department of Guangdong Times Media Group’s New Weekly magazine issued a statement of resignation. The statement said that the management did not understand the media business and did not respect the spirit of the industry, and the journalists could not submit to the management style that runs counter to the modern enterprise spirit, so leaving was the “best choice”.
It is reported that Guangdong “New Weekly” magazine merged with Guangdong Times Media Co. After the merger, in December, the magazine carried out a series of personnel changes and editorial system reform.
On Feb. 11, the mainland newspaper “Information Curry” said that on Feb. 10, departing journalists from the editorial department of Guangdong New Weekly magazine issued a collective statement condemning the magazine’s recent reform plans, which not only reduced the number of journalists’ positions and lowered their income, but also undermined the value of journalists’ work and affected their normal work.
Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily said the news was spread from Sina Weibo. However, the Epoch Times reporter could not find the news on Sina Weibo in mainland China. “The headline was found on Zhihu, but the content was deleted after clicking on it.
The statement, entitled “The death of New Weekly, which was at the forefront of reform and opening up,” was issued on Feb. 10 and was signed by the editorial department of New Weekly. The statement, entitled “The death of New Weekly, which was at the forefront of reform and opening up,” is inscribed as “The collective respect of the outgoing journalists.
The statement said that the management had a one-sided understanding of “de-paperization” and stigmatized journalists and editors who adhered to the professionalism of journalism in the name of “stubbornness, conservatism, refusal to change and obstruction of reform”, and carried out personnel “optimization”. Optimization”; the company mandated that magazine column articles must first be published in the new media, depriving the magazine of the right to publish column articles first, and making new media traffic the first criterion for measuring magazine articles.
The statement also said that the magazine company applied the company’s management system, using the “daily punch card and daily meeting” as the standard for measuring journalists’ work, which affected normal editorial work, and compressed editorial costs, with the basic article fee as low as 800 to 1,000 RMB per article; in addition, the magazine company required the editorial department to complete the “business income generating task”, requiring the editorial department to complete the “business income generating task”. In addition, the magazine requires the editorial department to complete the “business income generation task”, requires journalists to write “business articles”, and lists “profit conversion and advertising pull” as the assessment, evaluation and reward criteria for journalists; the new management of the editorial department is brutal and selects topics based on personal preferences; the company The company lacks internal communication and feedback mechanisms, and employees’ opinions are not taken seriously.
The journalists said that the management did not understand the media business and did not respect the spirit of the industry, etc. The journalists could not submit to the management style that ran counter to the modern corporate spirit and did not want to “walk gently into that good night”, so leaving was the “best choice”.
The statement did not disclose the number of journalists who left the company, but stressed that it was a collective statement of the departing journalists.
New Weekly was launched in 1996, with two issues per month and nationwide distribution, positioning itself as “China’s most up-to-date lifestyle weekly”, with the editorial principle of capturing the current social buzzwords and insight into the subtle social mentality. It was once known as the “fountainhead of topics” in the media industry.
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