Friday, December 30, 2016

Farewell to the 31. January, 2017: “image”-editor Kai Diekmann leaves Springer – daily mirror

the publisher of The “image”of the group, Kai Diekmann, is leaving the media house Axel Springer. He will be with effect from the 31. January 2017 to finish his activity at his own request, and from the publisher departure, such as Springer announced on Friday in Berlin. “After 30 years at Axel Springer, it is difficult for me to leave the house, I am a professional owe everything to,” said Diekmann, according to the announcement. He did not know the “image”, “Bams” and “B. Z.” in Tanit Koch, Julian Reichelt, Marion Horn, Peter Huth in the best of hands. “I can now take up new tasks,"”, Diekmann said, without being more specific.

The Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner said, “we are sad about his departure”. Kai Diekmann could look back on a unique career at Axel Springer. It was mainly due to him, “that image is now a Trendsetter of the digital journalism and a highly profitable multimedia brand”. Diekmann succeeded in the 16 years of the compilation, the leaf content and structure is always to develop and to give him a powerful journalistic voice. Döpfner put also emphasis on the reading, Diekmanns leaving open no gap in the Springer-image-Empire. He thanked Diekmann for it, that he had advised the since the beginning of the year newly elected editor-in-chief and supported, “so that now, a smooth Transition is possible.”

Diekmann came 1985 Springer

The 52-year-old Diekmann is, in fact, a “Springer-greenhouse”, and one of his career-private and private Do owes. Diekmann came in 1985, Axel Springer, he completed training at the Axel Springer school of journalism. Since then, he has worked with short interruptions for the publishing companies: first as an “image” and “picture on Sunday”Parliament correspondent, and later as a Deputy chief editor of “B. Z.” and “image”-policy chief, and editor-in-chief of the “Welt am Sonntag” before he took over in 2001, the “image”-editor-in-chief and, later on, in addition to editor of the entire “image”-group was appointed. With the concentration on the publisher of the “image”group began its entry to the exit, he gave the editors-in-Chief to the above-mentioned heads. But now, with the Diekmanns actual exit, Springer a Problem: Who takes care of the management of the brand in the case of “image”?

successes, and question mark

Kai Diekmann in the history of the “image”newspaper such as the Springer-Verlag for itself as for its groundbreaking decisions: The Helmut-Kohl-Intimus the tabloid moved more to the middle, he repeated the “red group” from Hamburg to Berlin, he made the second page of a political Agenda, he upgraded at the time of verbal baiting to the the tabloid earlier every day, from the haters, Pegida and the AfD are fighting the “image” and Bild.de energetic. Always Diekmann was committed to a close relationship between Israel and Germany, not less to the West was for him as much. The sooner a clear friend-enemy-has been retouched to Think, Diekmann it was able to meet the CDU and Chancellor Merkel suddenly hard. It is also clear that Kai Diekmann knew about the campaign ability of the tabloid and use knew. The term “Fairness” was also written in Diekmanns “image”-times more small than big. The “image”-chief and Journali st Kai Diekmann is not a Populist, but a fear of the popular topics he had not. And it has succeeded: to the extent that the “image”-newspaper fell to a daily edition under the Two-million-line, to the extent the access numbers from Bild.de have been jazzed up. The economic success was with Kai Diekmann in the best of hands. “It was an honour for me!”, tweeted Kai Diekmann on Friday morning.

Shortly after the message, the conservation of the speculation in herb: What Kai Diekmanns next task is? The Silicon Valley? Editor-in-chief at Facebook? Diekmann was, and is, in its Facets of conscientiousness for a lot of Surprises.

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