Two high profile and well regarded Sunday Times sports writers are among the first reported casualties of the paper's round of job cuts.
Paul Kimmage, a noted interviewer, and the Barcelona-based football reporter, Ian Hawkey, are both set to depart.
Kimmage, a former Tour de France cyclist, joined the Sunday Times in 2003 from the Sunday Independent in Dublin and he has been winning prizes for his work ever since.
He won the Sports Journalist Association's interviewer of the year title in 2004 and the following four years successively.
His book about the Tour de France, Rough Ride, won him the sports book of the year prize in 1990. And he is hot favourite to win it again later this month with Engage, his biography of Matt Hampson, the former England rugby player now confined to wheelchair.
The project began after Kimmage interviewed Hampson for the Sunday Times.
Hawkey was widely praised for his 2009 book, Feet of the chameleon: the story of African football, which was shortlisted for the William Hill sports book of the year.
He joined the Sunday Times in 1991 as a general reporter, before specialising in sport. In 2001, he was appointed as the paper's European football correspondent.
At the time, the paper claimed the appointment of a dedicated staff writer based in Europe as a first.
Source: Sports Journalists' Association
