Jobs are expected to go after Scottish media group DC Thomson announced the closure of four magazines.

The Dundee-based publisher is looking to cut jobs in audience and insight, data journalism, subscriptions, brand and marketing, magazines and Beano Studios, according to a trade report.

A spokesperson for the company told Press Gazette: “Following a strategic review, we are ceasing publishing four print titles – This England, 110% Gaming, Unicorn Universe and My Weekly Pocket Novels – which are not commercially sustainable in the longer term.

“Unfortunately, these changes will have an impact on the teams that support them and a small number of colleagues are now in consultation and will be fully supported throughout.”

Nick McGowan-Lowe, national organiser for Scotland at the National Union of Journalists, said: “It is unbelievable that only a few weeks after announcing £93.8m pre-tax profits, DC Thomson has now told 55 hard-working staff their jobs are at risk.”

The Scots Magazine, which claims to be “the oldest magazine in the world still in publication”, is being brought under the same “Local” structure as DC Thomson’s news titles, The Courier, The Press & Journal, The Sunday Post, Evening Telegraph and Evening Express, as well as radio station Original 106.

As a result, The Scots Magazine staff will work more closely with the news titles’ features teams to launch a digital membership proposition around its output on Scotland’s landscapes, people and cultures.

The publisher said in its most recent accounts that its media strategy “remains on course and largely unchanged: to deliver sustainable growth by protecting profits and diversifying revenues.”