Northcliffe Media initiate radical restructuring
Northcliffe Media, owners of the Derby Telegraph, Leicester Mercury and Nottingham Evening Post, has announced that it has embarked upon an internal restructuring of its business in a performance boosting exercise.
Newly appointed managing director, Steve Auckland is looking to hit the ground running by establishing three new publisher roles for Nottingham, Bristol and Hull, who will each hold responsibility for the profit and loss of the individual business.
This process will see the firm’s regional directors and managers axed in the first phase of a long term restructuring strategy although the publisher insists its six existing regional editors can be redeployed to other group publications.
Auckland has already launched a review of Northcliffe’s family of titles with the expectation that some daily titles will be made weekly.
Northcliffe state that the changes are needed to create a “simplified ‘one term’ approach.”