View all newsletters
Sign up for our free email newsletters

Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. News
March 22, 2011

Peter Kirwan: Regional newspaper group Northcliffe has cut 4,000 jobs since 2005

By Dominic wireposts

Press Gazette columnist Peter Kirwan has been running his slide rule over Northcliffe’s financial figures from the last five years and the results are quite scary.

He reckons that around 4,000 jobs have been cut at the regional media publisher over the last six years, giving us the current total of just under 4,000 employees.

And he believes the current market price for Northcliffe is about one fifteenth of what it would have been five years ago when Lord Rothermere put the business up for sale. Read more on his new blog here.

Content from our partners
MHP Group's 30 To Watch awards for young journalists open for entries
How PA Media is helping newspapers make the digital transition
Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it

Topics in this article : ,

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Select and enter your email address Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Sent at around 10am UK time. Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. A fortnightly update from the front-line of news and advertising. Aimed at marketers and those involved in the advertising industry.
  • Business owner/co-owner
  • CEO
  • COO
  • CFO
  • CTO
  • Chairperson
  • Non-Exec Director
  • Other C-Suite
  • Managing Director
  • President/Partner
  • Senior Executive/SVP or Corporate VP or equivalent
  • Director or equivalent
  • Group or Senior Manager
  • Head of Department/Function
  • Manager
  • Non-manager
  • Retired
  • Other
Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.
Thank you

Thanks for subscribing.

Websites in our network