Sandie Seward
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Jobs to go in merger at ScotsmanManagers at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday have announced they are to merge their editorial departments, prompting further job losses.
They are understood to be looking for 25 redundancies as the group faces a sharp downturn in advertising revenue and in circulation.
It has been reported The Scotsman is facing its first annual loss in 192 years of publishing.
Similar changes are being implemented at The Herald and Sunday Herald.
Arts and culture sections within the weekend editions of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday are being closed.
There will be a merger of the reporting teams covering news, features, sport, politics and business.
A spokesman for the National Union of Journalists said newspaper proprietors could not keep cutting jobs at this sort of rate and expect readers to keep faith with the quality of the product.
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