In the editorial staff of the Axel Springer group, the announcement surprised only by its radicalism.
Rumors swirled in the corridors of the German media group about the conclusions of an audit launched last fall.
In an email sent to the company's 18,000 employees, including 3,400 journalists, the general manager, Mathias Döpfner, confirmed the job cuts, a consequence of the digital transformation of the two pillars of the first German press group: the daily newspapers
Bild
and
Die World
.
According to the boss of Springer, the automation of the production of articles thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize journalism, which it will be able to
“support”
or even
“replace”
.
The number of jobs threatened by this "great replacement" is not yet specified.
But
“the atmosphere is heavy”
, blows a journalist from the tabloid, on condition of anonymity, who
“fears dismissals at the head of the client”
:
“No job seems more secure, neither in the writing, nor in the production »
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