Unhappy with the presentation of the Interview of the Year award to HTV journalist Silvija Luks, the RTL and HTV reporters and editors decided to leave the HND earlier this month, but suspended their decision until the HND Executive Board determined if any irregularities had occurred.
Twenty-three RTL reporters said they expected that the Executive Board would respond more resolutely, that it would cancel the controversial award and criticise the members of the jury who committed irregularities.
"Although you yourselves have noticed and confirmed the irregularities, you have done nothing to rectify them," the RTL journalists said in their letter to the HND Executive Board.
Nineteen HTV reporters said they could not accept the conclusion of the Executive Board that the jury had committed "procedural irregularities, but they did not compromise the presented awards".
The HTV journalists pointed out that the reason for their withdrawal from membership was not solely their dissatisfaction with the award-giving procedure but also the overall situation in the HND.