Journalist job losses at national broadcaster the ABC and at on News Corp Australia's metro publishing teams are the latest to be flagged.

Plans to centralise editorial and production of metro mastheads including the (Sydney) Daily Telegraph and (Melbourne) Herald Sun will lead to "dozens" of job losses as news content is shared across "multiple" titles.

A "small number" of redundancies are also planned at The Australian, although readers will be relieved to know that it is unlikely to share content from the metro titles. The Australian is also reported to be exploring ways to pay less for contributors.

National content will be focussed around a group of senior and specialist national news reporters, a new specialist sports newsroom, the new NewsWire news service - which replaces News' AAP subscription - and a "production centre of excellence" to streamline processes.

There's also a recurring claim that the restructure will make News less complex for advertisers to leverage.

A $41 million-a-year budget shortfall is also likely to bring up to 250 voluntary redundancies at the ABC. News, entertainment and specialist, regional and local, and product and content technology teams are affected.

Managing director David Anderson blamed an "indexation pause" which became effective from last July.