Postmedia Network Inc, which bought Canwest's newspaper division in July, has started to cut employees at some of its dailies as part of the company's restructuring process, The Globe and Mail reported Friday.

"Everyone is busy preparing budgets and they're reviewing their needs and their staffing components based upon the digital-first philosophy and any restructuring they have to do with respect to it," Postmedia chief executive officer Paul Godfrey told Canadian Business.

He declined to comment on the number of employees that will be affected by these measures. However, The Globe and Mail reported that 20 jobs have been cut at the Edmonton Journal and other 30 have been let go at the Calgary Herald.

"To meet the changing climate that all media are trying to meet it's going to involve some layoffs, and that's the unfortunate part," spokeswoman Phyllise Gelfand said in an interview with Canadia Business, while explaining that the cuts were going to vary among the dailies as each one is in change of its budget.

Both Godfrey and Gelfand confirm that voluntary buyouts have been offered in some newspapers. Media reports showed that employees in at least three dailies - The Victoria Times Colonist, The Province and The Vancouver Sun - have received such offers. According to Editor & Publisher, the buyout package "calls for six weeks' pay per year of service, to a maximum of C$150,000."