The Manchester Evening News and Huddersfield Daily Examiner newsrooms are the latest to face redundancies amid parent company Reach’s continuing separation of its print and digital operations.

The publisher’s print publishing in the north east will be consolidated into a single regional unit as it looks to concentrate on accelerating digital audience growth.

The titles are moving to the “Live” model trialled by Birmingham Live last year, although Reach confirmed in March that the MEN would keep its identity online.