Yle’s former news anchor Marjo Rein resigned from Yle on Tuesday. Rein’s former colleagues praise their colleague effusively.
Marjo Rein made her last newscast at Yle on Tuesday, January 14. Yle image service
Yle’s former news anchor Marjo Rein58, said on Tuesday that he was resigning from Yle. Rein made his last newscast on Tuesday evening.
In his private Facebook post, Rein opened up about the background to his dismissal. The comment field of the publication has been filled with words of praise and thanks from Reini’s former colleagues.
– Marjo. Thank you for the years of working together, thank you for your honesty, thank you for taking care of the quality of visual journalism. Godspeed, news anchor Tommy Fränti writes.
– My friend Marjo! Good luck in the new year – and you will say many of our feelings! Yle’s former news anchor Matti Rönkä praises.
– Thank you very much for everything, Marjo, and happiness and joy in the new phase of life, Yle’s editor-in-chief Riikka Räisänen wishes.
– You are brave. And you reason well. All the best for a fulfilling life after Yle, Marjo, Yle editor Sari Taussi writes.
– Oh Marjo, a wonderful professional and a nice colleague. Good luck with your new challenges, let’s go for a coffee, says Riikka Uosukainen, former editor of Yle.
– Thank you for your writing and your wonderful work at Yle. The writing touched me, because I left Ykkösaamu and Yle with similar thoughts. Good luck, former editor of Yle Päivi Neitiniemi states.
– Wise words, Marjo! And about that journalism: if you give the devil a little finger, it will easily take the whole hand. There are now too many examples around that ambitious quality journalism is drifting more and more narrowly, if not even to the margins. Nothing good will come of it…Editor Ira Hammermann writes.
Yle’s editor-in-chief Riikka Räisänen wished Rein luck in the future. Rosa Bröijer
Rein said in his private Facebook post that his attitude towards journalism has changed over the years.
– TV news has been my beloved home and a source of pride, but the last few years have changed news journalism in such a way that I no longer find my work as a producer and presenter to be meaningful, Rein explained in his publication.
– I understand that the web and phone applications are an important part of news these days, but if the same fragmented material and selfie journalism is forced into TV news as well, I don’t think it’s appropriate. “Everything that works online, I don’t think works on TV,” he continued.
Rein felt that Yle’s investment in the TV side is weak, with the exception of foreign delivery.
– Broadcasting has not been of interest to front-line employees for years. There is no focus on visuals, the editors’ use of voice does not matter, and we authors do not receive feedback from anywhere but outside the house. The news studios were also renovated, but we, the creators and users of the studio, did not want to be consulted sufficiently in advance. And still no desirable and essential changes have been made.
– Journalism is indeed changing, but I feel embarrassed if TV news viewers are told to look on our website, for example, to see which Hogwarts room “familiar” from Harry Potter belongs to, or which donut you would be, Rein wrote.
Finally, Rein took a stand on Yle’s change negotiations, which he described as a difficult matter. Rein believes that better times await those employees who are allowed to stay at Yle.