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Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58 - Publishing Activities
39 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 April 2024
Employment effect (start)
15 May 2024
Foreseen end date
15 May 2024
Description
The new local government of Tallinn announced on the 15th of April that they will close down a department of the Strategy Centre (Strateegiakeskus), which operates under the name of City Media (Linnameedia), by the end of May. All of its 39 of its employees will be dismissed.
This department is currently responsible for the publishing of two newspapers (Pealinn and Stolista) and production of Tallinn city TV programme.
The decision for the closure was one of the first promises the new local government wanted to carry out, as the City Media has been very politicised and used as a mouth piece for the previous government and a single party (the Centre Party) in Estonia. With this closure the new local government also wishes to save a lot of resources for urban development in the coming years.
Eurofound (2024), Strateegiakeskus, Closure in Estonia, factsheet number 201096, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201096.
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