"This is now a digital operation," he says.
Staff will transfer to i; to the new Independent Digital operation; or be offered redundancy cheques.
The change in editors comes as the Daily News transforms into a more digital operation.
The old guard in the Democratic Party made the adjustment with the Obama digital operation.
"Now it's in some ways the primary way our digital operation communicates with supporters.
In March, it was announced that Metro's digital operation, Metro.co.uk, would be merged with Mail Online.
"It's a digital operation from start to finish," Mr. Gruenberg emphasized.
Lewis also took Wynn Davies and Lloyd to the Telegraph's spin-off digital operation, Euston Partners.
With the appointment, Mr. Murdoch puts the News Corporation's digital operation under a single executive.
An unknown number will be kept on to work on the expanded digital operation.
2. The Independent's new digital operation, bolstered by ranks of top new recruits from the print team.
