Company says print and digital news operations will come together with reporters and editors producing stories for print and online

Staff at the Daily Mail and MailOnline are braced for significant job cuts after the publisher moved towards combining its digital and print editorial and commercial teams into one seven-day operation.

In a letter to colleagues on Thursday, the Daily Mail’s editor-in-chief, Ted Verity, and the publisher and chief executive of parent group DMG media, Danny Groom, confirmed a series of changes that would “result in a number of job losses”.