The owner of the Los Angeles Daily News has fired publisher Tracy Rafter after only two years on the job, and plans to cut more than 20 jobs, according to reports on Tuesday.

Rafter will be replaced by John McKeon, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, who will retain those responsibilities in addition to being publisher.

The newspaper group, owned by William Dean Singleton’s Denver-based MediaNews Group, publishes the Long Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News and four other daily newspapers in Southern California in addition to the Daily News.

The latest figures released this week by Audit Bureau of Circulation show the Daily News has lost 10.7 percent of its circulation on weekdays and 12.7 percent on Sundays.

McKeon said the changes are “part of an overall plan to better adapt our business cost structure to the fundamental changes that are under way in the publishing industry.”