Daily News axes 10 reporters in ongoing shakeup

In the latest turmoil to rattle the Daily News, about 10 reporters were axed today as the Mort Zuckerman-owned paper tries to stanch the flow of red ink.

Zuckerman invested $150 million in new four-color presses in New Jersey in 2009, but that hasn’t stop the erosion of advertising or circulation.

Editor-in-Chief Kevin Convey, who was imported from the Boston Herald just over a year ago, has been under intense pressure from Zuckerman to cut costs, sources said.

Recently, CEO William Holiber began pushing a “platform agnostic” newsroom whereby Web and print staffers were supposed to collaborate on stories — a move that divided the newsroom.

The print people, who insist they are not against delivering news online, bristle at newsroom higher-ups who seem to favor the Web writers and editors.

The sentiment is that the Web side is going after a non-New York audience with gossip, national politics, goofy ailments and animal stories that draw eyeballs, rather than the urban crime and political stories that are the paper’s bread-and-butter.

“Where are we going with this?” said one insider. “Are we the New York Daily Enquirer. I don’t think they get more than 10 percent of their revenue from the Web.”

The layoffs follow an overhaul of top editors under Convey that appears to have diminished the stature of seven managing editors. At least one managing editor — photography veteran Gretchen Viehmann — gave notice this week.