Reach to 'Streamline' Sports Teams Into One Hub with 'Around 50' Redundancies

Dozens of jobs at risk at Reach in overhaul of sports coverage

The company, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and a host of regional titles, said the plans are designed to ‘reduce duplication’.

Reach to 'streamline' sports teams into one hub with 'around 50' redundancies

Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, merging many of its national and regional teams in England into a central hub with around 50 redundancies anticipated. Reach sports journalists were told on Wednesday of the restructure, through which many will begin to write across any of its national and regional titles in an attempt to end writers in different newsrooms covering the same events. A team of specialist journali…

Union’s AI concern as Reach reveals plan to axe sports staff

Reach plc has revealed plans to make 30-50 staff redundant as it moves to a centralised sports reporting structure. The publisher of national brands the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, as well as local titles including the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, informed staff on Wednesday of the planned redundancies as a minimum 30-day consultation period began. The move to a streamlined model, outlined in the email from head of sport Jake …

Dozens of jobs at risk at Reach in overhaul of sports coverage - Jersey Evening Post

Reach is expected to cut around 50 jobs as part of an overhaul focused on its sports coverage. The company, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and a host of regional titles, said the plans are designed to “reduce duplication”. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said the news publisher has placed 104 roles […]

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs

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