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Daily life region will cease:
Keystone-SDA
. However, The latest issue of the North Vaudois daily The Region will appear on Friday. Therefore, After the mass stroke, local authorities are mobilizing in order to maintain a media. Moreover, – Daily life region will cease
(Keystone-ATS) An increase in postal prices prompted the board of directors of the region to dismiss all of its staff on Monday. Similarly, The Surrendété company has not said its last word, however.
Its majority shareholder. Meanwhile, President Jean-Claude Vagnières announced Monday seeking “actively tracks with partners to daily life region will cease avoid seeing the title disappear definitively”. In the meantime, he confirmed on Tuesday in Keystone-Att that the last issue of the daily will appear on Friday.
The city of Yverdon available
Pierre Dessemontet. Co-Syndic d’Yverdon-les-Bains and member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Development of North Vaud (DNA), expresses its lively regrets: “It is the whole of a district of nearly 100,000 inhabitants who finds himself without a local media. It is a huge part of the municipal news that will no longer be covered. ”
He expresses his strongest misunderstanding concerning the decision of the Federal Communication Office: “a simple change of postal provider lowers the press aid from 600. 000 to 500,000 francs”.
Pierre Dessemontet fears a form of “desertification” of regional news. Although the city is able to increase its advertising presence in a local media. it cannot compensate for the announced structural deficit.
The C-Syndic of Yverdon daily life region will cease also does not set any requirement as to the form that the media must take in the future. leaving the freedom to abandon the paper format “the most important being that local news is covered”.
The canton of Vaud takes note
Through the voice of its president Stéphane Constantini. DNAV has contacted the newspaper’s writing to inform him that it was available to find an outcome favorable to the situation, as was communicated to Keystone-ATS. However, DNAs “do not have financial means that can come to fill the allocation additional costs” in the region.
All the actors consulted say they are saddened by the disappearance of the media. The canton of Vaud expresses its “regrets” in a press release. and hopes to safeguard this title as well as its 19 jobs (14 full -time equivalents (EPT)). DNV finds “harmful for the whole region” the emptiness left by the disappearance of this media.
Trustee requires “targeted measures”
Syndicom. the media and communication union, said on Tuesday in a statement that the region’s situation shows “exemplary that media aid currently decided is not enough”. For him, the last aid package decided is “insufficient and does not reach the small local media”.
Syndicom now requires targeted measures to strengthen local and regional media, in particular small media.
Swiss media asks for its part the creation of a neighboring right in favor of the media. which would oblige large international digital platforms to pay them for the editorial content they use. This project must be examined this year again by the federal chambers.
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