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Newspaper publishers to axe jobs

A REGIONAL newspaper publisher which has axed thousands of jobs is to sack more workers.

Edinburgh-based Johnston Press plans to merge the workforces of the Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Edinburgh Evening News so that one editorial team produces the three papers. Around 45 journalists’ jobs will go.

All three papers are based in Edinburgh.

National Union of Journalists Scottish organiser Paul Holleran said: “The scale of these cuts has come as a great shock.” In the past two years Johnston Press has shed almost 1,600 staff and is sacking staff photographers.

NUJ national organiser Laura Davison said: “Johnston Press can’t simply continue to cut its way out of difficulty.

Jeopardising quality by cutting essential roles like staff photographers is not a long-term strategy for success.”

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