Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries
Reach, the British publisher behind the Mirror, Express, and dozens of regional titles, is cutting 220 editorial jobs. The company says falling online traffic — driven by readers turning to AI-generated summaries instead of clicking through to articles — forced the decision.
Why this matters: This is a direct transfer of value from newsrooms to AI companies. Reach built audiences and produced journalism. AI tools summarize that work, readers stop visiting, and publishers lose the ad revenue that pays reporters. Two hundred and twenty jobs disappearing is the concrete result. Local news is already thin in many places the Mirror's regional titles cover. When AI drains what little traffic remains, the communities those papers serve lose coverage, not just the journalists who lose work.
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