In a joint statement published on the Clube de Jornalistas’ website, the subscribers – including former journalists and collaborators – expressed their “indignation at the negligence and irresponsibility to which this important media group has reached, and express their solidarity with its workers”.
In the text, they added that they wished “the positive continuity of the respective publications, many of which are significant references in Portuguese journalism”.
The text is signed by journalists such as Adelino Gomes, Césario Borga, Fernanda Mestrinho, Fernando Dacosta, Luís Vasconcelos, Paulo Pena and Viriato Teles, as well as authors and academics such as António Cândido Franco, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Inês Pedrosa, José Luís Peixoto, Luiz Fagundes Duarte, among others.
In the same publication, on the Journalists’ Club website, it is stated that the group’s 180 workers will meet in plenary on Monday, at 10am.
Last Tuesday, the management of Trust In News announced its intention to present an insolvency planrequesting the convening of a meeting of creditors to present and substantiate a recovery plan, after having failed a Special Revitalization Process (PER).
The administration, led by Luís Delgado, then said that “Trust In News has always believed that the path of its restructuring and viability would be the most consistent and positive for all creditors” and for its employees, “who have always contributed to social communication free, independent and exempt, rigorously complying with its constitutional purposes”.
“(It is) unimaginable to conceive social communication in Portugal without the fundamental presence of TIN magazines, which fulfill their constitutional duty to inform with rigor, quality and plurality. The obligation to inform and be informed is a basic principle of our democracy and national sovereignty “, emphasized the administration, in a statement.
Trust in News’ PER was rejected on November 5, with votes against by the Federal Revenue Service (AT) and Social Security.
The recognized credits totaled almost 33 million euros (32,940,709.87 euros) and voted against creditors representing around 20 million euros (20,148,007.16 euros).
The company holds 16 titles, including Visão, Exame, Exame Informática, Jornal de Letras, Caras, Activa and TV Mais.
Source: www.jornaldenegocios.pt
