The editors-in-chief of NOS Sport will step down immediately. The NOS management has decided this in good consultation with the members of the editorial board, the broadcaster reports in a press release.
An interim editor-in-chief will be appointed in the short term, who will remain in office until a new editor-in-chief is recruited. After that, a new editor-in-chief is put together.
The National Association of Confidential Advisers (LVV) said on Saturday, after an article in de Volkskrant about the transgressive behavior at NOS Sport, that the editor-in-chief had to resign immediately.
Maarten Nooter formed the editor-in-chief of NOS Sport together with deputy editors-in-chief Pim Marks, Selma Schuurman and Ewoud van Winsen. Nooter was appointed editor-in-chief of NOS Sport in 2007.
Working atmosphere would not have been good for a long time
According to the NOS, the decision follows ‘reports about an unsafe working climate and transgressive behavior in the sports editors’.
The working atmosphere has not been good at NOS Sport for some time. External confidential advisers received more than a hundred reports of abuses in the last period. That was about specific reports, but also about the culture that prevailed in the editorial office. It would be too focused on results and not enough on the employees.
General director of NOS Gerard Timmer: “Due to the discussions we have had in recent days about the results of the inventory, the previously announced phased withdrawal has gained momentum. We are now entering a phase in which we will look at what the sports editors need in the short term and in the future.”