LA Times Editor to Forced to Quit

LOS ANGELES TIMES SAYS EDITOR TO QUIT
[SOURCE: Reuters]
Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet, who has resisted parent company Tribune Co.'s plan to lay off staff to cut costs, will leave the newspaper. He was forced to resign at the request of the publisher after he refused to agree to further cuts of his editorial staff. Baquet surprised industry experts when he did not resign in October when Jeffrey Johnson quit as the paper's publisher. Johnson had supported Baquet's decision to fight the Tribune's efforts to eliminate jobs at the paper, which is one of the largest in the United States. Johnson was replaced by David Hiller, former publisher of the Chicago Tribune in Tribune Co.'s home town. Hiller told Times employees Tuesday that the company will cut positions sometime next year.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2006-11-07T223509Z_01_N07453038_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-MEDIA-TRIBUNE-LATIME...

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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2006-11-08T000232Z_01_WEN9349_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-MEDIA-LATIMES-JOBS-DC.XML

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-110706baquet,0,7757157.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/business/media/08paper.html