Ten of the (20 editorial) staff would be taking voluntary redundancies.
Titles affected include The Courier Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Hobart Mercury, Adelaide Advertiser and News Corp’s free news and lifestyle division, which includes the news.com.au website. Managers emailed staff on Tuesday evening to set up meetings about the decision.
Of the 20 layoffs, more will come from The Daily Telegraph than any other paper.
Five roles, three of which are voluntary redundancies, will come from News Corp’s production staff including subeditors.
Former associate editor for the weekend Telegraph Sarah Blake is also set to return as national editor for Network News on July 21, according to an internal email seen by this masthead. Blake returns from Seven’s new digital masthead The Nightly, where she spent four months as chief correspondent.