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The editors of De Telegraaf have misplaced confidence within the administration of Mediahuis Nederland, the writer of which the newspaper falls. This occurred on Thursday throughout a normal editorial assembly, at which the administration was current to defend the appointment of the brand new editors-in-chief Kamran Ullah and Esther Wemmers, sources report back to the newspaper.
Earlier it got here out that the editors of the newspaper didn’t agree with the brand new appointments. In keeping with the editors, the administration has not “took any discover of a destructive recommendation from the editorial board”, based on a leaked letter on behalf of the editors. The editors additionally imagine that the administration “ignored earlier recommendation from the editorial board in the course of the appointment course of”.
As well as, the administration has handled the present deputy editor-in-chief in an “indecent method”, partly as a result of there is no such thing as a place for him throughout the new editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The editors are of the opinion that the administration within the appointment course of “acted in an amateurish and dangerous method”.
The newspaper introduced final month that Esther Wemmers and Kamran Ullah will kind the brand new editor-in-chief of De Telegraaf from 1 June. They succeed Paul Jansen, who will begin working as a correspondent in the US.
Mediahuis Nederland was not instantly accessible for remark.
