Tribune de Genève

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Tribune de Genève
Tribune de Genève.png
description Swiss daily newspaper
language French
publishing company Tamedia Publications romandes SA ( Tamedia AG)
First edition February 1, 1879
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 33,564 (previous year 36,028) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Widespread edition 33,566 (previous year 36,100) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Range 0.105 (previous year: 0.106) million readers
(WEMF Total Audience 2018-2)
Editors-in-chief Frédéric Julliard,
Ariane Dayer (editor-in-chief of the Tamedia editorial team)
Web link www.tdg.ch
ZDB 1188531-2

The Tribune de Genève (until 1971 and 1990–1992 La Tribune de Genève ) is a French- language daily newspaper from Geneva , Switzerland . It was founded on February 1, 1879 by James T. Bates , an American businessman and stockbroker and former high officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War . The newspaper is published by Tamedia Publications romandes. A WEMF - certified circulation of 33'564 (previous year 36'028.) Sold or 33'566 (previous year 36'100.) Distributed copies and a reach of 105,000 readers (previous year: 106,000.).

The Tribune de Genève has belonged to the media company Edipresse since 1991, whose Swiss media activities, bundled in the Presse Publications SR SA, were gradually taken over by the German-speaking Swiss media group Tamedia in 2010/2011 .

Since 1992, the year after the takeover by Edipresse , the content of the newspaper has been largely identical to that of the 24 heures published by Tamedia Publications romandes and earlier by Edipresse . The two newspapers differ on the front page and in the regional section.

The single number (August 2017) costs 3.80 CHF , the annual subscription ( print / e-paper ) 529 CHF (2017). In the city of Geneva, the Tribune de Genève is also called «la Julie».

The newspaper is a member of the journalistic research network European Investigative Collaboration (EIC).

history

The first edition of the Tribune de Genève appeared on February 1, 1879 as the successor to the English-language Geneva Times . James T. Bates had taken over the English-language daily newspaper Continental Herald & Swiss Times in 1876 and split it into Continental Herald and Geneva Times . The tribune was sold as an evening newspaper at 5 p.m. by colporteurs at a price of 5 centimes ( cents ). It was the first French-language newspaper in Switzerland for a “ sou ”. An annual subscription cost 11, from 1880 12 CHF for the first and 18 CHF for the last issue of the day, while the price for the single number remained at 5 cents until 1917 (10 cents at the train stations). The edition was 3000 copies and contained four pages. From the first issue on, the editorial motto was: "We do not accept any instructions, insist on our independence and will defend our freedom of expression against all sides." At that time there were only partisan newspapers in Geneva: the Journal de Genève of the liberal-conservatives , Le Genevois of the radicals and Le Courrier de Genève of the Catholics . The people of Geneva read the international news mainly in French newspapers and the ever-increasing community of foreigners in English-language newspapers. The Tribune got along right from the start as a liberal Forum newspaper that the federalism and a strong anchoring of Geneva in the Swiss Confederation advocated - the first 11 days appeared Tribune with the unofficial motto of Switzerland "Un pour tous, tous pour un" ( " One for all, all for one ») above the newspaper title. Together with the fact that it is not tied to a party, the price of the tribune , which is below the competition, should enable it to reach a broad audience, unlike the party press.

Front page of the first edition of the Tribune de Genève dated February 1, 1879

The first editor-in-chief, Alfred Bouvier, a French-born former archivist for the canton of Geneva , had four journalists and several foreign correspondents at his disposal. The departments classified as less important (art, music, theater) were left to freelancers, whose fee consisted of being printed. The newspaper initially appeared once a day at 5 p.m., from 1880 twice a day (additionally at 2 p.m.), in 1883 three times (additionally at 10 a.m.), from 1884 four times, from 1886 even five times, whereby the fifth edition corresponded to the original evening paper and the People at the kiosk in Geneva asked for “la cinquième”. From 1915, when a number of employees were doing military service, the number of expenses had to be reduced. In 1918 there were two editions, a Geneva evening and a national morning edition, until finally, in 1990, only a morning newspaper appeared.

The newspaper developed rapidly in the first few years, in addition to the foreign news mainly thanks to the stock market reports by James T. Bates (which were later continued by his son Fred) and the "Chronique locale" (miscellaneous) section by Emile Trachsel, who was the first introduced such a section in the Geneva newspapers (later continued by Eugène Trollux). In 1894 the circulation was already 30,000 copies, making the Tribune the second largest newspaper in Switzerland after the Tages-Anzeiger . In the interwar period , the circulation increased to 46,000 copies compared to 26,000 for its competitor La Suisse .

The layout and format of the newspaper were changed several times: it first appeared in a small four-column format of 30 × 45.4 cm, changed to 37.4 × 52.1 cm in 1883, then to 47.2 × 61.7 cm and went 1889 during certain days of the week to the gigantic size of 52.8 × 71 cm. A year later it decreased to 46 × 60 cm, then in 1971 to 33 × 49 cm. Today (2014) the newspaper appears in the Berlin format (31.5 × 47 cm), mixed with five and six columns, in two fascicles. From 1881 onwards, the front page was increasingly filled with advertisements until it finally consisted of advertisements in 1899. Edgar Junod , 1918–1938 editor-in-chief, moved the advertisements back inside the newspaper in 1922, with the exception of a few millimeters across all the columns at the foot of the page. From 1994 these advertisements were no longer on the front page either.

Caricature on the huge format introduced by the Tribune de Genève in 1889

In 1920, Fred Bates, the son of James T. Bates, who died in 1914, and the new owner, exasperated by the state strike of 1918 and the clashes with Léon Nicole , socialist, later communist, member of the cantonal and national parliament, member of the Geneva government and co-initiator of the unrest in, sold in 1920 Geneva 1932 , as well as the typographers' strike every time new machines were introduced, the "Société anonyme pour la Tribune de Genève" founded in 1890 to a predominantly German-Swiss group consisting of Jean Hegnauer, later Swabian, and the Vogt Schild family and the Publicitas , which participated with 20% and increased the share to 40% in 1942. Bates remained associated with the newspaper as chairman of the board and financial reporter.

In 1945, the majority of the Tribune became the property of Chapalay & Mottier SA, a company founded by the two Geneva bankers Chapalay and Mottier, which produced the address and telephone directories essential for Geneva. In 1954, the Tribune de Genève took over Roto-Sadag SA, a printing company that had the two printing techniques that the Tribune lacked, gravure and offset printing. The Tribune now employed without correspondents and free, 22 journalists (compared to 4 in 1900), in the administration, including distribution 42 employees (12) and 210 in the print shop (40). In May 1960 the newspaper had almost 20,000 subscribers (traditionally the majority of the Tribune's customers are subscribers, in 2012/2013 it was 71.12%).

In 1957, the Tribune expanded the sports and information supplement, which had been published since 1932, into a Sunday newspaper, the Tribune Dimanche . It was discontinued in 1963. From 1964 to 1965, a bimonthly sports supplement tribune sports followed as a replacement . After that, the sport was fully integrated into the newspaper.

In 1971, the Tribune's printing house gave up the two letterpress rotary presses that had been in operation since 1941, moved into a new building and on August 30, 1971 printed Switzerland's first daily newspaper to be produced using color offset printing . The format of the newspaper was massively reduced to 33 × 49 cm, the new logo with the emblematic large "T" was introduced, and the "La" disappeared from the newspaper title. The circulation now exceeded 70,000 copies, and the editions sometimes exceeded 100 pages. The newspaper employed almost 350 people. The price for the single number was now 40 cents, the annual subscription 65 CHF. On July 11, 1973, a fire broke out in the third basement, damaging the two offset rotary printing presses. Thanks to the collaboration with the La Suisse technicians, the edition appeared anyway. In 1975 the changeover from lead to photo typesetting took place. In the same year, Publicitas took over the majority of the Société anonyme de la Tribune de Genève by taking over the block of shares from Schwabe. In January 1977 the publishing house of the Tribune de Genève , "Tribune-Editions", was founded.

  • The previous logos of the «Tribune de Genève»

  • 1879-1959

  • Sunday newspaper 1957–1963

  • 1959-1971

  • 1971-1984

  • 1984-1990

  • 1990-1992

  • 1992-2010

In 1988, the Tribune de Genève terminated the 1939 agreement with La Suisse to publish La Suisse as the morning and the Geneva edition of the Tribune de Genève as the evening newspaper. The Geneva edition became the morning paper in 1989 (like the national edition before) and then the morning paper on May 28, 1990. The editorial part was expanded, a new layout was introduced as well as a new logo: the capital "T" was omitted, the "La" was added again, "de Genève" was just a subtitle. A large edition of over 310,000 was printed and distributed to all Geneva households. However, the number of copies sold has now dropped to 60,000. The Tribune announced tough cost-cutting measures and introduced longer working hours in the print shop, after which the printers went on strike for a month . The labor dispute resulted in high costs because during the 27 days of the strike, the longest in Geneva press history, several issues could not appear or only to a limited extent. The losses amounted to around CHF 5 million in 1990 and around CHF 8 million in 1991. The management decided to close some points of sale to reduce costs, which led to a further decrease in circulation.

A newspaper advertising airship near Geneva , 2006

In addition to the existing problems, there was a collapse in advertising revenues in Geneva. The newspaper was ripe for a takeover. Initially, the Roto-Sadag AG printing company was taken over by three directors in a management buy-out in October 1990 . After that, Edipresse and Publicitas founded a joint company, "Presse Publications Suisse romande", in which Edipresse 75 and Publicitas held 25% and into which the two partners contributed their stakes in western Switzerland (Edipresse Le Matin , 24 heures , 70% an Le Nouveau Quotidien ; Publicitas 94.7% at the Tribune de Genève , 40% at the Bussigny printing center and smaller holdings in the Démocrate , Démocrate SA, and des Nouvelliste , Rhône-Media printing centers ). Edipresse had been moving closer to the Tribune de Genève since the mid-1980s and together with it had founded the Femina and Télé Top Matin supplements and the Bussigny printing center in 1990, which gave the Tribune the opportunity to accept the print order from the Vernier printing center, which was the competitor La Suisse was part of the move. After an observation phase, a restructuring plan was drawn up under the direction of Edipresse's Publications Director, Marcel A. Pasche.

Under the slogan “Genève j'y crois” (“I believe in Geneva”), the Tribune carried out the third comprehensive restructuring in 1992 after 1971 (transition to offset and smaller format) and 1990 (conversion to the morning paper). The layout (four instead of two fascicles ), editorial status, make-up system and marketing concept have been changed, new sections (e.g. "Opinions") introduced, unprofitable supplements such as "Hebdo culturel" deleted. A close collaboration was agreed with the Lausanne newspaper from Edipresse, 24 heures , and the national pages have since been produced identically for both newspapers. Again there was a new logo, small caps , white on blue, “La” was now definitely omitted, “de Genève” was again the same size as the rest of the title. 19 editorial, 28 technical and 15 logistical positions were cut. The newspaper then employed around 50 journalists and around 20 correspondents and external staff in Switzerland and abroad. The first edition of the redesigned newspaper appeared on September 29, 1992. The newspaper's circulation rose again to 63,150 copies, and it was back in the black. In addition, she won the battle for displacement with La Suisse that began with the transition to the morning paper . Their owners had been tempted to make daring investments and had to close the newspaper in 1994. Since then, the Tribune de Genève has been the only forum newspaper in Geneva. She was even able to take the liberty of reducing the price for the single issue, which had just been raised from 1.50 to 2 CHF just eight months earlier, to 1.60 CHF / copy (the annual subscription, however, remained at the 282 CHF in force since the end of 1993). The circulation rose to around 78,000 copies by mid-1995, the number of readers to 259,000, including 44,000 in neighboring France.

However, like all Swiss paid and subscription newspapers , the Tribune de Genève has been continuously losing circulation since 1999/2000 (with 78,402 copies, the highest circulation ever achieved) due to the change in the reading behavior of the population due to the Internet and the new free newspapers . The loss was particularly high in 2007/2008, when the newspaper lost over 5000 copies of its circulation, and in 2015/2016 with a loss of around 4000 copies. In 2017 it was still 36,028 (previous year 37,236) copies sold, the reach of 107,000 (previous year 120,000) readers. In 2002, the editorial staff 13, in 2006, converted into full-time positions, 8 to 10 positions were saved by not replacing departures and reducing workloads.

On October 13, 2010 the newspaper appeared in a new layout, again with a new logo (no more small caps). Since then, it has contained the sections Opinion, Events, Switzerland, World, Economy, Geneva, Culture, Letters to the Editor, “Signatures” (last page). The Thursday edition contains the section “Sortir ce week-end” (tips for the weekend out), the Friday edition “VIP zone”, and the Saturday edition offers various sections such as cartoon, “Week-end en stroll »(Tips for weekend excursions),« Fines gueules »(gastronomy) and« J'y étais »(« I was there »). There are three regular supplements: Real Estate, Work and Auto. With the new layout, the Tribune de Genève also redefined its editorial goals: "To deepen and decipher the information for the reader, to give the report more weight."

On March 3, 2009 Edipresse and Tamedia announced that Tamedia would gradually take over Edipresse's Swiss media activities (in addition to Tribune de Genève 24 heures , Le Matin , Bilan , La Broye, Journal de Morges ). In 2010, Tamedia took a 49.9% stake in the Edipresse subsidiary “Presse Publications SR SA” (PPSR), in which most of Edipresse's Swiss media activities were bundled. At the beginning of 2011 Tamedia took over another 0.2% and thus the majority of PPSR. The takeover of the remainder of 49.9% planned for 2013 was brought forward to 2011. At the end of 2011, Tamedia renamed its media activities in western Switzerland to “Tamedia Publications romandes”.

In 2014, Tamedia discontinued the weekend supplement “TV Guide”, which, in addition to the Tribune, was also enclosed with 24 heures and Matin Dimanche .

In 2015 she was a founding member of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), in which she is currently working with the daily newspapers Die Welt , El País , the Italian La Repubblica , Le Figaro from France, Le Soir from Belgium, and the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger collaborates editorially and cooperates in international reporting.

Since January 1, 2018, only one French and one German-speaking Tamedia editorial team has been creating the international / national cover (domestic, foreign, business and sport) for the 12 paid daily and 2 Sunday newspapers of Tamedia. Ariane Dayer is the head of the French-speaking editorial team (she also remains editor-in-chief of Le Matin Dimanche ). Pierre Ruetschi initially remained editor-in-chief of the Tribune de Genève , but was replaced on September 1, 2018 by his previous deputy, Frédéric Julliard. The joint Newsexpress is located at 20 minutes / Le Matin and supplies all Tamedia news portals with breaking news , short agency reports , photo series and live tickers .

News portal

The news portal is operated jointly with 24 heures . A joint web editorial team ensures the current reporting. The portal is freely accessible. Since a layout change in March 2007, a current mini version of the two newspapers can be printed out for the way home at 4.30 p.m. The portal had from January to September 2016 monthly from 0.806 to 0.919 (prev. 0.745 to 1.024) million unique clients , from 4.652 to 5.595 (prev. 4.633 to 7.066) million visits and 16.007 to 21.826 (prev. 20.641 to 41.384) million Page Impressions . On August 23, 2017, Tamedia announced that as of January 1, 2018, the merged editorial team of 20 minutes / Le Matin will be relocating the Newsexpress, which will provide all French-language news portals from Tamedia with breaking news , short agency reports , photo series and live -Ticker supplied.

Locations

The first editorial office of the Tribune de Genève and its administration were located at 15 Rue du Mont-Blanc in Geneva, the headquarters of the Continental Herald & Swiss Times . The printing works, «Imprimerie Anglaise», was located at 7 rue de la Chaponnière. In 1880, the editorial office and administration moved to 1 Place Bel-Air. In 1883 the editorial team moved to Rue du Rhône 1, while the administration remained at Place Bel-Air, in 1986 the editorial team and administration exchanged addresses. In 1887, the editorial, administration and printing works were merged at 4 rue Jean-François-Bartholoni, and the printing works was now called “Imprimerie de la Tribune de Genève”. In 1893, offices at 6 rue Jean-François-Bartholoni were rented for the administration, and in 1894 the editors moved to 2 rue Jean-François-Bartholoni with the entrance at 27 Boulevard du Plainpalais, which was also the official address of the editors from 1899. The Boulevard du Plainpalais was renamed Boulevard Georges-Favon in 1904, the printing plant was now located with the administration on Rue Jean-François-Bartholoni 6. In 1932 the administration moved next to the editorial office on Boulevard Georges-Favon 29. From 1940 it was located the editorial office, from 1941 also administration and printing at Rue du Stand 42. After Edipresse's takeover in 1991, the editorial team and administration moved to Rue des Rois 11 in 1992 (in 1990 the editorial office was at Rue de la Synagogue 29 for a short transition period) . The print shop moved to a new building in 1971 with the transition to web offset. In 1990, with the transition to the morning newspaper , the Tribune relocated printing from the Vernier printing center , where the competitor La Suisse was also printed as the morning newspaper, to the new printing center in Bussigny , Vaud , "Center d'impression Edipresse Lausanne" (CIEL) , which was set up jointly with Edipresse . In 1994 Edipresse moved the printing of the newspaper back to the "Center d'impression et de techniques de presse" (CITP) in Vernier, which had been bought by the bankrupt La Suisse printing company , Ci Com, and renamed it the "Center d'impression Edipresse" Genève »(CIEG). In return, the Nouveau Quotidien was printed in Bussigny. In spring 2003 the printing of the newspaper was moved back to Bussigny because of better color options, in return the printing of Le Temps was moved from Bussigny to Vernier. In 2006 the printing center in Vernier was closed. Since 2006 the management has been centralized in Lausanne.

Editors-in-chief

  • 1879–1911: Alfred Bouvier (1848–1915): former archivist of the canton of Geneva, historian and theologian, admirer of Germany until its invasion of neutral Belgium in 1914, continued to write for the tribune after his time as editor-in-chief until his death in 1915
  • 1911–1918: Edouard Bauty (1874–1968): previously a correspondent for various newspapers in Paris and Bern, put a French-friendly stamp on the newspaper during the First World War , then into old age correspondent for Swiss and foreign newspapers at the League of Nations and the United Nations ; his training as a painter enabled him to illustrate articles by hand
  • 1918–1937: Edgar Junod (1883–1955): came from the Gazette de Lausanne , became general director after his time as editor-in-chief (thereafter the editors-in-chief held the title of director-chief editor until 1998), was delegate to the board of directors from 1934 , from 1951 until his Death on October 16, 1955 in addition to the position of General Manager President of the company
  • 1938–1960: Gaston Bridel (1895–1982): came from the Gazette de Lausanne , theater enthusiast and amateur actor, diversified the content of the newspaper
  • 1961–1981: Georges-Henri Martin (1916–1992): trained by Pierre Lazareff from France-Soir , after studying delegate of the Red Cross in the USA , correspondent in Washington of the Tribune and the fact , then correspondent in New York of France -Soir and Elle , introduced the very colorful “Une-vitrine”, turned the newspaper into an institution in Geneva, 1976–1982 member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency , was after his time as editor-in-chief until 1991 president of the academic council of the University of Geneva , founded the English-language periodical Uni News
  • 1982–1992: Daniel Cornu (* 1939): theologian and former correspondent in Paris, systematized the principle of research and reporting, 1988–1997 member of the administrative board of the Swiss Dispatch Agency, 1993–2004 director of the “Center romand de formation des journalistes”, since 1998 ombudsman first of the Tribune de Genève , from 2007 all publications from Edipresse, after their takeover by Tamedia from 2012 the publications from Tamedia Publications romandes
  • 1992–1998: Guy Mettan (* 1956): previously Deputy Editor-in- Chief of Bilan and Nouveau Quotidien , since 2005 member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva ( CVP , 2010 President) and President of the “Club Suisse de la Presse”; his dismissal in 1998, after criticizing the merger of Journal de Genève and Nouveau Quotidien to form Le Temps , led to considerable unrest in the editorial team and to their right to hold a vote of confidence with a newly appointed editor-in-chief during the first three months
  • 1998–2000: Marco Cattaneo (* 1962): previously deputy editor-in-chief; the functions of director and editor-in-chief were separated (director was Antoine Exchaquet, who was initially intended to be editor-in-chief), after his time as editor-in-chief he was responsible for the online area of ​​Edipresse publications, 2007–2012 director of “Edipresse Développement” (formerly “Edipresse Luxes »)
  • 2000–2006: Dominique von Burg (* 1946): trained in television, since 2007 President of the Swiss Press Council
  • 2006–2018: Pierre Ruetschi (* 1959): with the Tribune since 1984 , deputy editor-in-chief since 1992, before that USA correspondent for Tribune and 24 heures , project manager for the new layout and news platform 2007, began his career at the AP news agency
  • since September 1, 2018: Frédéric Julliard, previously Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Names

The Geneva people affectionately call the Tribune de Genève "Julie". In the 50-year anniversary issue of February 1, 1929, the Tribune de Genève reports in an unsigned article on the front page that this nickname goes back to Georges Favon, at the time editor-in-chief of the rival newspaper Le Genevois . He always got annoyed when his sister-in-law Julie, who lived with him, asked him every time he came home whether he had brought the tribune for her. So this has become "Julie's newspaper" and ultimately simply "Julie". Previously, Favon disparagingly called it the “Meunière von Bel-Air” in his newspaper after its headquarters on Place Bel-Air. Based on the newspaper's nickname, there has been an “Encre Bleue” column on the last page, signed “Julie”, since 1990.

The title “Tribune” is due to him, together with Alfred Bouvier, first editor of the Tribune , Louis Wuarin, son-in-law of Jacques Adert, editor of the Journal de Genève . Wuarin was from New York, where he had often read the New York Tribune . “Like all neologisms and fashions, when I first found this name 'Tribune' a little strange,” he later admitted, “but it had the advantage of being new and 'inviting'." Two years after the Geneva Tribune , 27 newspapers in France called themselves Tribune . In 1895 the Tribune de Genève unsuccessfully sued the Tribune de Lausanne, founded in 1893, in a long legal dispute over the use of the name “Tribune” up to the federal court .

1990 printer strike

The Tribune de Genève was affected by labor disputes several times, particularly when new machines were introduced, when editors-in-chief were replaced, when Edipresse and Tamedia took over and when there were downsizing. The main conflict was the one-month strike by the technical staff of the Roto-Sadag printing company from February to March 1990, the longest in Geneva and one of the longest in Swiss press history, during which the newspaper could not appear for six days and which had far-reaching consequences the company had.

The conflict was triggered by the management's decision to introduce new shift schedules for technical staff with reduced overtime bonuses and the omission of a half-hour paid break and meal allowance without consulting the works committee. Around 60 of the approximately 200 employees in the print shop went on strike on February 21, 1990 .

The management declared the strike, citing the graphic between the Swiss Association of Companies (SVGU) and the trade union pressure and paper (GDP) concluded a collective agreement , which in Art. 2 social peace and the appearance of the newspaper guarantees "under all circumstances" immediately deemed illegal. She threatened to dismiss the strikers and dismissed the president of the workers' group in the works committee, Claude Reymond, also president of the Geneva section of the Swiss Lithographers Association (SLB), without notice, because he had informed the state chancellery of the Feuille d'avis published by the latter official could not be printed because of the strike. According to statements from Reymond and the State Chancellor René Kronstein, Reymond had only asked the State Chancellery for mediation.

Reymond's dismissal was now the focus of the argument; the number of strikers increased to 120 to 160. Until March 14, 1990, the tribune could still appear with the help of the technical staff and the employees not participating in the strike, but on February 22, 1990 only as an eight-page free edition, then in one to max. 48 pages reduced in size.

The editors stated that they could not comment on the labor dispute because they were subject to a different collective agreement than the technical staff. She demanded to be able to report objectively in the newspaper like on any other strike, which the management assured her. The editorial staff as well as the technical cadre asked the management to withdraw Reymond's dismissal and the strikers to go back to work.

The mediation efforts of the cantonal justice of the peace (Office cantonal de conciliation) and the equal labor arbitration tribunal provided for in the collective agreement all failed because of the refusal of the management under Hans Kobel to reinstate the dismissed union leader and the refusal of the strikers to resume work before negotiations.

From March 14, 1990, for the last five days of the strike, the printers completely blocked the printing works with the help of picket lines and locked out all of the 560 employees, including journalists, so that the newspaper could no longer appear. The labor dispute threatened to spread to the entire canton of Geneva or even to all of Switzerland. The Geneva cantonal government ( Conseil d'Etat , German Council of State) conducted intensive separate negotiations with the parties under the leadership of Jean-Philippe Maitre and, after one last, presented by the entire seven-member Council of State for 18 hours without interruption until the early morning of March 20th led negotiation round a proposal for an agreement. Thereafter, union leader Reymond was to be reinstated until federal court decided whether his dismissal was legal or not. The management should withdraw the threats of dismissal and the strikers should resume work immediately. The parties should accept that a judge, acting as a permanent “mediator” in the company, presides over the meetings of the management and the works committee and monitors compliance with the collective agreement. In addition, both parties should waive mutual claims for damages. The agreement proposal was signed on March 20, 1990 by the GDP, the management of the Tribune de Genève , the SVGU and the Geneva government. The newspaper was able to appear again on March 22, 1990 after six canceled editions.

According to the management, the Tribune lost CHF 2 million in advertising income alone because of the strike. The already precarious situation of the company worsened as a result. In 1990 the newspaper posted losses of CHF 5 million. She thus became a candidate for takeover. The print shop was sold in a management buy-out at the end of 1990, with the new owners reinstating Claude Reymond as normal and the decision of the Federal Supreme Court thus being superfluous. The Lausanne media group Edipresse bought the majority of the company in 1991, Hans Kobel left the company.

The union official, Claude Reymond, who was mainly involved in the strike, was dismissed once in 1983 for insulting the management. Because of the strike that was triggered, the newspaper was unable to appear for three days and only as an eight-page free edition for one day. Reymond had to be reinstated after a decision by the labor court.

Gaddafi affair

Articles published by the Tribune de Genève have repeatedly been the subject of complaints to the Swiss Press Council and legal disputes. In September 2009 the dispute over the publication of police photos of Hannibal al-Gaddafi , a son of Muammar al-Gaddafi , which showed him in an unfavorable manner shortly after his arrest on July 15, 2008, attracted a great deal of attention . Gaddafi was arrested with his wife, Aline Skaf, after domestic workers reported them for abuse. This sparked the Libya affair .

Gaddafi filed a lawsuit against the Canton of Geneva, the Tribune de Genève and one of its journalists for violating his personal rights . He also asked for compensation of CHF 100,000.

The canton of Geneva regretted the publication, initiated an investigation into the transfer of the photos and spoke out in favor of “adequate compensation” for Gaddafi. The Tribune de Genève was shocked by this “prejudice”. The publication was justified and the photos were an information element to find out more about the circumstances of the arrest. The Geneva cantonal court, however, found Gaddafi right and sentenced the tribune to publish the judgment in the newspaper and on the news portal. The canton of Geneva also had to publish the judgment on its website. The newspaper had to bear three of the costs and the canton a quarter. The court, however, rejected the claim for compensation of CHF 100,000.

The Tribune de Genève waived an appeal against the judgment, in view of its leniency, but also because the Swiss Max Göldi was still being held in Tripoli for allegedly violating the residence regulations. In order to obtain his release, Switzerland undertook to pay Hannibal Gaddafi CHF 1.5 million as compensation for his legal and legal costs in the event that the author of the violation of official secrecy could not be found and punished Enter the amount into a blocked account in Germany. Federal Councilor and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey also had to formally apologize for publishing the photos. Max Göldi was then released on June 14, 2010. The culprit for passing on the police photos could not be determined. After the fall of the Gaddafi regime in the course of 2011, however, all measures to resolve the crisis were no longer applicable, and Switzerland got the 1.5 million CHF back through the mediation of the German government .

The Libya affair was also the subject of the media program Der Club des Schweizer Fernsehen on June 15, 2009, with editor-in-chief Pierre Ruetschi as a participant. The State Secretary of the FDFA Peter Maurer said that the publication of the police photos, which was only made possible through a violation of official secrecy, had considerably complicated the resolution of the crisis.

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  1. ↑ a b c d WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 28 (PDF; 796 kB).
  2. ↑ a b c WEMF Total Audience 2018-2 ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 6 (PDF; 609 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wemf.ch
  3. ↑ a b Edipresse Switzerland and Tamedia merged in 2011. Tamedia , April 8, 2011 (press release).
  4. ^ On the front of the first edition of the Tribune de Genève from February 1, 1879.
  5. ↑ a b c d Le 1 er février 1879 paraissait le premier numéro de la "Tribune de Genève", organe d'information fondé par M. James-T. Bates. In: Tribune de Genève. February 1, 1929, morning edition, p. 1.
  6. ↑ a b c Christian Vellas: La "Tribune": une tradition de neutralité politique et confessionnelle. In: Tribune de Genève. February 1, 1979, p. 19.
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