PAPER CUTS
WITH profits at DMGT up a mere 87 percent last year to £66m, allowing owner Lord Rothermere to extract just £21m by way of dividends, belts are having to be tightened.
As the Eye has previously chronicled, the Mail titles have taken the brunt of cuts, with a third of hacks dispensed with as the papers and website were brutally mashed together earlier this year, and a number of high-profile columnists and senior editors subsequently given their marching orders.