Local Leaders Urge Owner of The LA Times to Avoid Cuts

LOCAL LEADERS URGE OWNER OF THE TIMES TO AVOID CUTS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: James Rainey]
Twenty Los Angeles civic leaders sent a letter of protest to the Chicago-based owners of the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, saying that continued staff reductions threatened to seriously erode the quality of journalism at The Times. Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was among the prominent citizens who urged Tribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis J. FitzSimons and the media company's board of directors "to resist economic pressures to make additional cuts which could remove it from the top ranks of American journalism." "All newspapers serve an important civic role," the letter adds, "but as a community voice in the metropolitan region, the Los Angeles Times is irreplaceable."
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-times14sep14,1,6756315.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business
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