The president of NERIT Antonis Makrydimitris and the deputy managing consultant Rodolphos Moronis has resign from the public broadcaster’s supervisory board amid allegations of political interference.
Based on information made available to To Vima, the two appear to have under pressure from political personnel and from high-ranking NERIT officers who had been hired prior to the recruitment of Makrydimitris and Moronis. The pressure and interventions appear to have related not only to broadcasting service’s program, but also matters of journalist ethics, such as which events NERIT was going to cover.
The outgoing deputy managing consultant commented on his facebook account that “if you claim to want to build something independent, impartial and qualitative but do not mean it, then do not delegate it to someone who means it…”. Earlier in the year, prosecutor Panagiota Fakou ordered a preliminary investigation in response to allegations regarding NERIT’s recruitment procedures of 132 journalists.
