Matthijs van Nieuwkerk is temporarily resigning his work and will stop at BNNVARA with immediate effect.
The 62-year-old television maker “cuts ties” with the broadcaster, he tells the ANP. “The fact that my employer openly doubts my sincerity makes further cooperation impossible.”
“I notice that there are many emotions fighting for priority: shame for the fear that editors have felt, regret that I had – literally – blind ambition and therefore crossed borders, sadness about that The world goes on after all, my life’s work, is wavering”, says Van Nieuwkerk.
Work culture behind the scenes The World Keeps Turning
The presenter is discredited after the Volkskran t Friday evening published an extensive study into the work culture behind the scenes of The world goes on . It went into effect, according to dozens of employees the Volkskran t for “extreme outbursts of anger and public humiliation”.
‘Come to your senses’
Van Nieuwkerk, for a long time the most iconic and best-paid presenter of the public broadcaster, will use the coming period “to come to his senses”. “Then I hope to hear from you again.”
Before that he made several TV programs around the Top 2000. NTR decided on Saturday to stop recording the Top 2000 Quiz in response to the Volkskrant article. Nothing is known about the continuation of this.