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Death of the "Head of the News" role: The print marks another milestone on the road to disappearance

The Yedioth Ahronoth group trains (and accustoms) employees to change the organizational structure and the fact that from now on there are two arms - digital and printed, and therefore there are two bosses.

The position of head of the news system, which was one of the most important in the newspaper, will go down to print and will no longer be printed

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David Wertheim

Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 14:14 Updated: 14:26

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No longer a clear hierarchical structure as it was in the newspaper from the day it was founded, by an editor subordinate to a publisher.

An email sent to the employees of the Yedioth Haboker group (Tuesday) betrays the tectonic changes going on in the newspaper precisely in what is not written in it. But first of all:

"We are pleased to announce the establishment of the united news division of Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet. "Under the division will be officially established a joint concentration of reporters of the group. It will be headed by Sharon Liss, who was until now the chief coordinator of the newspaper" - it was written.

The news, which was already known and published, is signed by a laconic line: "The United News Division will operate under the subordination of Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet editors. Neta Livne and Dror Amir. Good luck!".

In other words: no longer a clear hierarchical structure as it was in the newspaper from the day it was founded, by an editor subordinate to a publisher.

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In practice, the joint union is the closure of the news system and its subordination to Ynet

Later, the editor of the printed newspaper, Neta Livneh, sent a more detailed announcement announcing the appointment of the newspaper's new head of news, which would include responsibility for the heads of the desk, editors, designers, producers, info people and anyone who deals with the news pages on a daily basis.

Yoav Rybak, who is finishing 3 years as head of the newspaper's news system, will move to a new position, "digital content manager", which will include, according to Livneh, "a look ahead to the need and obligation to breathe digital life into journalistic products and march the newspaper into the future."

In practice, according to the dwindling workforce and a quick look at the first pages of the newspaper, which contain more and more opinion pieces and initiated projects - the common union is the closure of the news system, at least in the configuration we knew, and its subordination to Ynet.

Became a puppet role

The position of head of the newspaper's news system is a position that was once one of the most important in the journalistic system. He would also jump to edit the newspaper or other senior positions in the media industry, as in the case of Neta Livneh himself. One way or another, in the words of a senior official who is familiar with what is happening in the corridors of the press group Rishon Lezion: "The role has become in recent years the role of puppet and irrelevant - now finally died."

Role of head of the news desk somewhere newspaper was founded in 1996 and until earlier called simply "the head The desk "

The more important role then was in general a reporter coordinator, or "editorial center" in Yudkovsky's time.

In the 1990s, at a time when editor Moshe Vardi was absent due to wiretapping and Alon Shalev was the editor, the role was founded and Mickey Rosenthal was the first to serve in it.

He was succeeded by the current chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation Board, Gil Omer, Ulpan Shishi editor and former Yedioth Ahronoth editor Ron Yaron, Walla!

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