Employees from the media in Jobbik are being fired one after another, while Telex is thinking about new perspectives.
Layoffs have begun at Alfahír and N1TV in Jobbik, the liberal flagship Telex, which at the time was started with the money of a Czech billionaire, meanwhile announces that the portal will be owned by its employees.
According to press reports, a significant downsizing wave has begun at the Jobbik-linked news portal Alfahír and the online television station N1TV, with only a few employees being retained in the end.
According to the information published in the press, the presenter Henrik Havas was also sent away from N1TV, but the person concerned later denied this and claimed that he was told that his show would be paused in view of the summer.
Some sources claim that there was
to whom the termination was communicated via SMS, and the office leases of the editorial offices of N1TV and Alfahír have already been terminated.
At the flagship of the left-liberal media, meanwhile, they are thinking about new perspectives.
Van Másik Kft., the publisher of Telex, is transforming. The company, which is currently owned by one person, founder Márton Kárpáti, will be transformed into a limited liability company, the portal announced in its announcement on Monday.
As written, 75 percent of the shares will be employee shares, distributed equally.
They added: only founder-editor-in-chief Veronika Munk will receive a larger share of this share than the others.
The remaining 25 percent of the shares will be distributed as common shares among Editor-in-Chief Szabolcs Dull, Business Development and Strategy Director Márton Kárpáti, IT Director András Kárpáti and András Pusztay, Economic and Sales Director, the announcement states.
As known,
Telex was started a few years ago by a group of journalists from Index with the help of a Czech billionaire, Zdenek Bakala.
As we previously reported, Bakala's interests include the Czech Republic's largest publishing company, Economia, which donated 200,000 euros to Telex in March 2021.
Many people refer to Zdenek Bakala simply as the "Czech Soros".
The businessman also has a foundation bearing his own family name, although its size and activities are much more restrained than Soros's, the Bakala Foundation mainly donates higher education scholarships.
The international news agency V4NA recalled in its article about Bakala that the billionaire was harshly criticized by Czech Republic President Milos Zeman and former Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
Bakala appeared together with George Soros at a 2007 conference organized by the Policy Association for an Open Society.
The Czech billionaire's foundation also supported non-governmental organizations linked to Soros, such as The Aspen Institute Central Europe.
Source. Hungarian Nation
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