Merging of teams at Daily Mail and MailOnline will lead to job losses, staff told | Daily Mail

Staff at the Daily Mail and MailOnline are braced for significant job cuts after the publisher moved towards combining its digital and print editorial and commercial teams into one seven-day operation.

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

They said its “print and digital news operations will fully come together with reporters and editors producing stories for online and the papers” while “the Mail on Sunday, already a seven-day operation in many respects, will become even more integrated”.

The letter does not say how many staff will be affected but states there will be a 30-day consultation period for staff affected, with some roles put at risk of redundancy, while others could see an alteration in working pattern, job title, line manager or duties.

The move follows a managerial restructure in October that saw Verity, the editor of Mail Newspapers since 2021, become editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail across all platforms.

The restructure 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, the i newspaper and New Scientist magazine.

The publisher is hoping to further drive its digital paid-for content strategy, Mail+, which hit 100,000 paying subscribers in November having only been launched in January last year.

Most of MailOnline’s articles remain free to read but Mail+, which is to be launched in the US later this year, contains paywalled core content including showbusiness, royal stories, health, personal finance advice and columnists.

Daily Mail & General Trust, the parent of DMG Media, has been contacted for comment.

DMGT is the latest publisher to seek to cut staff and costs with the deepest coming at Reach, which owns national papers including the Mirror and the Express and scores of local titles including the Manchester Evening News and the Liverpool Echo, slashing almost 800 roles two years ago.