Jobs axed in Daily Telegraph merger
Wednesday 13 March 2013
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EmailEighty of the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs' 550 newsroom workers will lose their jobs when the two papers merge.
A letter to staff from chief executive Murdoch MacLennan that spelled out the extent of the cuts leaked out today.
The right-wing papers, owned by the secretive billionaire Barclay brothers, will become a single, seven-day operation.
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