AFP
Hong Kong's English-language daily the South China Morning Post on Tuesday laid off more than 30 editorial staff as part of a restructuring exercise, sources said.
In an internal email circulated among staff and seen by AFP, the Post's Editor-in-Chief Reginald Chua said the company wanted to separate the reporting teams from the actual production of the paper.
The newspaper also aimed to extend reporting teams' work to new online and print products over time, he said.
"These changes will mean a number of staff are being reassigned, and regrettably, a number will be made redundant," Chua wrote.
"It is a difficult decision to have to make, but an unfortunately necessary one."
The layoffs affected many editorial divisions, including the newspaper's team in Bangkok, sources from within the company, who declined to be named, told AFP.
The Post did not immediately return AFP calls for comment.
The company has said it would reinstate the salaries of its staff in January 2010, after asking them to take voluntary pay cuts in March this year as its business was affected by the financial crisis.
Many newspapers are grappling with declining print advertising revenue, falling circulation and the migration of readers to free news online.
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