Business Insider and Bild Publisher on Edge After Tabloid King Fired

A day after ousting the powerful editor-in-chief of Germany’s bestselling tabloid newspaper, the head of the Axel Springer publishing house sought to calm a newsroom more accustomed to setting the daily agenda than being the subject of public debate.

Mathias Doepfner strode into the offices of Bild Zeitung in Berlin mid-morning on Tuesday and laid out the reasons for dismissing Julian Reichelt. In his telling, keeping Reichelt became untenable after senior management found that he had failed to “clearly separate personal and professional matters” and that he had lied about his behavior.