Uncertainty is gripping the Daily News as the depleted edit staff waits to find out who will succeed Arthur “Chucky” Browne as editor-in-chief.

Former Parade magazine editor-in-chief Maggie Murphy is the latest name to surface as a possible successor.

Murphy has been in to see the teetering tabloid’s management several times, sources said — but it now looks as though the paper is going in a different direction.

That has left the editorial staff frazzled.

Browne announced with the Tronc takeover in September that he would only stick around until year end.

The paper lost $13.7 million in the first half of 2017, and Tronc embarked on sweeping cuts to its business side. It cut up to 30 people over the past 10 days as it centralizes many operations at Tronc’s Chicago HQ.

The decimated editorial staff has already been slashed to around 85 people.

“There’s nobody left to cut,” grumbled one edit insider.

Tronc chairman Michael Ferro is believed to have bypassed internal candidates like Jim Gaines, a former Time Inc. top editor who joined the News last summer, and Robert Moore, the managing editor, news.

Ferro is thought to be keeping onetime Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief and publisher James Kirk on the reserve list.