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Media General Inc. is cutting 35 percent of the jobs at its downtown Richmond headquarters in an effort to have a leaner corporate structure.

The Richmond-based media company said Friday that 45 jobs are being eliminated.

Affected employees were told Thursday and Friday morning. Some people were let go immediately, while some jobs will not be eliminated until later in the year for various business reasons, a spokeswoman said.

Media General said it is restructuring its corporate functions to more closely align the company’s operating practices with those of other broadcast industry companies.

The goal is to place more operating responsibilities at the local station level, decentralizing the decision-making process, spokeswoman Lou Anne Nabhan said.

“This change in Media General’s business model decentralizes decision-making and results in a leaner corporate structure,” George Mahoney, the company’s president and chief executive officer, wrote in an email to employees.