Big names chopped as News Corp redundancies hit newspapers and national reporting team

Some redundancies were voluntary and others were forced. More redundancies are expected at The Australian newspaper, sources say. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Some of News Corp’s most experienced journalists have been made redundant amid significant cuts to the national reporting team, and the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph newspapers.

The national health reporter Sue Dunlevy, who has clocked up 36 years with the company, is among the redundancies. So too are the former Europe correspondent Charles Miranda, the national investigations editor Ben Butler and investigative reporter Natalie O’Brien.