Top Editor at Axel Springer Is Ousted After Workplace Investigation
Jan Philipp Burgard was one of Axel Springer’s most prominent editors, overseeing its influential German broadsheet Welt.
One of the top editors at Axel Springer, the German media giant behind major American publications like Politico and Business Insider, left the company after an investigation into inappropriate behavior, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The investigation into the person, Jan Philipp Burgard, who was the editor in chief of the center-right broadsheet Welt, began this month after executives at Axel Springer received a media inquiry about Mr. Burgard’s behavior at an alcohol-filled company Christmas party in December, two of the people said.
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