Monday, September 04, 2006

Telegraph confirms job losses in move to Victoria

The Telegraph Group today confirmed that its move to a new multimillion pound integrated digital newsroom would be accompanied by job losses.
Staff at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph will start moving to new offices in in Victoria, central London, in a fortnight, with the process completed by November.

Long-term plans for the printing of a new 80-page, full-colour Telegraph are expected to be finalised by November.
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Murdoch MacLennan's letter to Telegraph executives

I am writing to update you on the progress of our move. More importantly I also want to outline how our business is going to change at Victoria to allow The Telegraph - with substantial investment - to make the utmost of the massive opportunities the digital revolution in information offers us.
Let me start with a word of background. Everyone in the media - print, broadcast and on-line, national and regional - faces a tough and uncertain future as digital technology creates a myriad of new ways for our customers to receive their news, and also changes forever the way it is gathered, processed and transmitted.

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