Announcing a new focus on digital and the 64% decline in print sales since 2018, Ringier Sports Media Group confirmed the firing of “three employees” at local Libertatea and said that “an assessment of the editorial team will be conducted to identify the necessary steps to build a digital-focused newsroom.”
The journalists of the daily, with a focus on investigative journalism, see the move as new pressures on the editorial policy in favour of business groups, particularly from the gambling industry.
The three employees are editor-in-chief (editorial coordinator) Catalin Tolontan, deputy editor-in-chief Iulia Rosu, and head of print…
