Mirror Group to cut 200 editorial jobs

Posted by Erina Lin on June 10, 2010 at 9:19 PM

Trinity Mirror is to cut 200 editorial staff at its three national titles, including the Daily and Sunday Mirror, and The People, Media Guardian reported.

The company said the cut was due to the creation of new multimedia newsrooms, which emerged from its web-based content management system, ContentWatch. Among all the 200 people being made redundant, 140 of them are full-time.

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The overall reduction in journalistic jobs across these 3 titles are more than 25 percent, paidContent:UK reported.

This layoff move, which involves reporters, writers, photographers as well as sub-editors and some desk editors, is one of the largest single layoff programmes by any British publishing group.

ContentWatch, according to the company, "enable the production of high quality content across multiple channels while ensuring each title retains its quality, integrity and unique identity. Importantly each title retains its own editor," Media Guardian reported.