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Guardian News & Media (GNM) has confirmed the requests of journalists seeking voluntary redundancy as part of the group's ongoing redundancy programme.

The redundancies will affect both editorial and production staff and are part of a scheme announced in November to help reduce the group's losses, which are estimated at £100,000 a day . In November GNM said it was seeking 100 volunteersfrom across its commercial and editorial operations for redundancy , but that some compulsory job losses had not been ruled out.

Sources suggest that 40 editorial and production staff have had their requests for voluntary redundancy confirmed this week, but the company has not confirmed this number.

"A number of staff have had their requests for voluntary redundancy confirmed this week. Work on the budget and discussions with individual members of staff are ongoing, and the total number of people leaving will not be finalised for some time," GNM told Journalism.co.uk in a statement. Last month Telegraph.co.uk reported that just seven journalists had applied for redundancy before Christmas.

As part of the changes the Guardian will lose technology correspondent Bobbie Johnson, who has taken voluntary redundancy. Johnson will not leave the title until the end of March, he adds in a post on his website .

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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