The editorial director of ‘Adevarul’ resigns

Corina Dragotescu, the editorial director of ‘Adevarul’, announced today the newspaper’s owner she will leave the team. Dragotescu stated for the NewsIn press agency she can’t work ‘with a person that tore an editorial team in two and moved a part somewhere else’. NewsIn assumes the ‘person’ is Razvan Corneteanu, who recently left Ringier Romania for a general manager position in the new press company of the controversial Romanian oil mogul Dinu Patriciu. More than 50 per cent of the ‘Libertatea’ team, a Ringier title and the most succesful Romanian newspaper of the moment, also left several days after to relaunch ‘Averea’, another title owned by Patriciu.

Dragotescu told NewsIn she has some negotiations with two Romanian rolling news TV stations, Antena 3 and Realitatea TV. According to sources consulted by Comanescu.ro, the Realitatea TV deal is more likely. She is one of the politics experts often invited in talk-shows.

Earlier this year, Patriciu took over the ‘Adevarul‘ (RO) newspaper from Anna-Maria Tinu, the late newspaper’s director daughter, Dumitru Tinu, found dead on January 1st 2003, in a strange car accident. ‘Adevarul’, the former ‘Scinteia’ (Romanian ‘Iskra’, the newspaper of the communist party), was one of the successful Romanian newspapers during the late nineties and early two-thousands, until March 2005, when most of the team left the newspaper to found ‘Gandul’. Dragotescu stayed to become an editorial director. In spite of a radical graphic change in Autumn 2005, ‘Adevarul’’s sales went down, as is shown on the BRAT (Romanian ABC) site.

After Patriciu and Corneteanu took over, Dragotescu made a couple of public statements rather critical regarding the new management team.

(Photo from the ‘Adevarul’ site)

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