Daily Mail staff face Job Tab as online and printed teams merged | Daily Mail

Staff at the Daily Mail and Mailonline have been told to expect job cuts by the publisher as it revealed plans to combine their digital and printed editorial and commercial teams in a seven-day operation.

In a letter to colleagues on Thursday, Daily Mail’s editor -in -chief, Ted Verity, announced and the publisher and CEO of the parent group DMG Media, Danny Groom, a shaker that would “result in a number of job losses”.

They said its printed and digital news operations would “fully come together with journalists and editors who produce stories for online and papers”, while the mail on Sunday would “become even more integrated” with Monday to Saturday title.

Some roles will be at risk of redundancy, while others could see a change in work patterns, job title, line manager or duties.

The letter does not specify how many employees will be affected, but says there will be a 30-day consultation period. According to British employment law, a 30-day consultation period means a maximum of 99 employees redundant within a 90-day period. The job cuts do not affect the publisher’s US operation, which was the subject of a round of layoffs of approx. 10% of its workforce last year.

The move follows a managerial restructuring in October, when Verity, the editor of mail newspapers since 2021, becomes editor -in -chief of Daily Mail across all platforms.

The restructuring also saw Groom, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Mailonline, promoted to his new role leading DMG Media, which also owns the FreeSheet Metro, I-Avisen and New Scientist Magazine.

The publisher hopes to further run his digital paid content strategy, Mail+, which hit 100,000 paying subscribers in November, when they were first launched last January.

Most of Mailonline’s articles remain freely read, but Mail+, which will be launched in the United States later this year, contains Paywalled core content including show business, royal stories, health, personal finances and spalgo advice.

Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), the parent of DMG Media, has been contacted but refused to comment.

DMGT is the latest publisher who seeks to reduce staff and costs with the deepest that comes after range that owns national papers, including the mirror and express and scores of local titles, including Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, which cuts nearly 800 roles Two years ago.