Posted on 03/04/2016 7:03:28 AM PST by Pelham
Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been named publisher as well, part of a sweeping reorganization by the newspaper's parent company, Tribune Publishing Co.
The shake-up, announced Wednesday, comes less than a month after Michael W. Ferro Jr., a Chicago tech entrepreneur, became the company's largest shareholder and chairman....
Maharaj described Los Angeles as "a remarkable crossroads of culture and creativity that has long captured the world's imagination." He said that Ferro and Dearborn had challenged The Times to position itself as "a global brand."
Maharaj, a native of Trinidad with a political science degree from the University of Tennessee and a master's degree from Yale Law School, began at The Times as a summer intern in 1989.
The editorial staff — cut from 1,200 to about 500 over more than a decade — was reduced by dozens more in a buyout in late 2015. The paper has filled some of those vacancies this year, with an emphasis on hiring more women and minorities.
Among the Tribune editors who will take on publisher's responsibilities is Jeff Light of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Along with The Times and the San Diego paper, editors will become publishers at seven other Tribune Publishing properties: the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, the Orlando Sentinel, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and the Daily Press in Virginia.
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Yeah...that’s gonna put LAT in the “in the know about American perspectives game.” /s
What business owner in their right mind serves only to 47% of the population while going out of their way to stick their finger in the eye of the other 53% as a matter of routine practice?
That is the business model of the corrupt MSM, especially newspapers like the LATimes.
And they continue to wonder why things aren’t better, and why people not only migrated to the Internet, they BOLTED to the Internet as soon as it became a viable alternative.
It’s really not new for the LA Times. They represented the opinion of Westside LA and the Hollywood Left for years and you simply had to put up with that.
SoCal in general is less and less American. It’s the culmination of years of mass Third World immigration brought to us by both parties.
Putting editors in charge of the business side is going to be great for ad sales.
The key word being "eventually." Print media don't have that long to live.
But it could cut down on some of the muckraking.
-PJ
I’d say 2 or 3 years 5 at tops before it becomes a weekly.
Davan Maharaj will rename the paper to LAIndia Times
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