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Record’s sports editor leaves in Glasgow cull

Alan Rowan, the sports editor at the Trinity Mirror-owned Daily Record in Glasgow is among 13 staff at the Scottish tabloid and the Sunday Mail to have their applications for voluntary redundancy accepted.

Eight of the 13 to leave the titles, by the end of February, are from editorial. The other five are from IT, advertising and operations.

More on sports desk job cuts:

All Herald staff made redundant
Mair and Knight leave Telegraph; Buckley goes from Obs
Chadband among casualties in Derry Street
Martin Johnson latest to leave the Telegraph
Fraser quits Independent to return to Middlesex
Express to cut more than 70 jobs
Publishers pull the plug on two football blogs
Brighton’s weekly sports paper to close
NUJ chapel protest at Independent‘s sports cuts

Click here to see a timeline of journalism job losses

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