Daily Mirror Publisher Reach Is Cutting More Than 200 Jobs

Reach, the company that publishes the Daily Mirror and Daily Express newspapers, announced it is cutting 220 jobs from its editorial teams. The company also said it will shut down three of its local news websites: KentLive, AberdeenLive, and GalwayBeo. These changes are part of a plan to reduce costs and change how Reach produces its news content.

While Reach is removing 220 editorial positions, it will also create about 60 new jobs in areas the company wants to grow. Those new roles will focus on subscriptions and longer video stories. The company's commercial teams, which handle advertising and business deals, will also lose around 65 of their roughly 500 jobs.

Reach's chief content officer, David Higgerson, explained the reasons for the cuts in an email sent to staff. He said the company has been hurt by fewer people clicking on its stories through Google Search. He also said competition from the BBC in local news areas has made things harder for Reach.

Higgerson was clear that closing the three local websites was not a judgment of the journalists who worked there. He said the decision was based on how well Reach could compete in those particular markets. The company said it will try to move affected staff to other roles rather than simply letting them go.

Reach has started a required 45-day period of talks with affected workers. During this time, the company must discuss the changes with employees before finalizing them. Jobs across print, digital, and video departments could all be affected by the final decisions.

This is not the first round of job cuts at Reach in recent times. Last September, the company cut more than 320 journalism jobs in what it called its biggest-ever restructure. A few months before that, about 40 staff from the sports editorial team were made redundant, meaning they lost their jobs.

A recent financial update showed the company's sales dropped 9% in the first half of 2026, and page views fell by 40%. Reach's chief executive, Piers North, said the company wants to rely less on traffic from search engines like Google. Instead, Reach plans to grow by getting more readers to subscribe and by producing more video content.