San Francisco Editor Quits in Wake of Staff Cuts

SAN FRANCISCO EDITOR QUITS IN WAKE OF STAFF CUTS
[SOURCE: Bloomberg, AUTHOR: Vivek Shankar]
Robert Rosenthal, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has resigned two weeks after the newspaper announced a plan to cut 25 percent of newsroom jobs. Rosenthal said he was leaving "without rancor or acrimony," the Chronicle said yesterday in a statement. The resignation comes at a time when the Hearst Corp. newspaper is cutting about 80 union-covered and 20 management positions, out of about 400 newsroom jobs. The cuts are an effort to curb costs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR200705...
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* The decline of news
[Commentary] The Chronicle's announcement earlier this month that 100 newsroom jobs will be slashed in the coming weeks in the face of mounting financial woes represents just the latest chapter in a tragic story of traditional journalism's decline.
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