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Communications giant Rogers Publishing announced a small shakeup to its company’s magazine mastheads on Tuesday, with three top editors cut loose, as part of an effort to streamline its editorial structure.

According to an internal staff memo, the position of editor-at-large, held by Dianne de Fenoyl, would be eliminated, and Ms. de Fenoyl would be leaving after nearly a decade with the company.

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Beth Thompson, editor-in-chief of Canadian Health & Lifestyle magazine was also let go, and the company said the brand would now be part of the Chatelaine brand. Two of the company’s cosmetic-trade magazines, Cosmetics and Made for Men, would be aligned under the FLARE brand, with the editor of those two titles, Kristen Vinakmens, also leaving the company.

Rogers Publishing, a division of Rogers Communications Inc., is one of Canada’s largest print publishers with a stable of more than a dozen trade and general interest magazines, including Maclean’s, Canadian Business andToday’s Parent.

“As part of our new Rogers 3.0 plan, we are making changes to our teams to help us become a more agile company and to position us for growth,” said the company email.

Monday’s announcement by Rogers comes on the heels of similar changes at Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star, which recently discontinued its free Toronto alternative weekly The Grid along with several editions of its Metro commuter paper.