Updated, 11:42 Am: Two more top editors have resigned from the Los Angeles Times ahead of a new round of planned layoffs. Managing Editors Sara Yasin and Shani O. Hilton have exited less than two weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida resigned from the paper.
The moves come as Times journalists on Friday staged the first walkout in the paper’s 142-year history.
Yasin’s resignation note was posted on social media today (see it below), and Hilton left last week. The latter’s Times profile page lists her as “former managing editor,” but Yasin’s profile has not been updated. Hilton joined The Times as a deputy managing editor in 2019, and Yasin arrived in 2022.
Here is Yasin’s resignation post; see the Merida exit story below.
Previously, January 9: Kevin Merida said on Tuesday that he was stepping down as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, after less...
The moves come as Times journalists on Friday staged the first walkout in the paper’s 142-year history.
Yasin’s resignation note was posted on social media today (see it below), and Hilton left last week. The latter’s Times profile page lists her as “former managing editor,” but Yasin’s profile has not been updated. Hilton joined The Times as a deputy managing editor in 2019, and Yasin arrived in 2022.
Here is Yasin’s resignation post; see the Merida exit story below.
Previously, January 9: Kevin Merida said on Tuesday that he was stepping down as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, after less...
- 1/22/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In response to “significant” planned layoffs, unionized staffers at the Los Angeles Times are launching a one-day strike on Friday.
The walkout — which the Los Angeles Times Guild is calling the first newsroom union strike in the paper’s history — is taking place in response to layoffs that management announced on Thursday as a means of reducing the paper’s 2024 budget. Staff members nationwide will be participating, the union said. The Times Guild represents around 400 editorial employees of the paper, including reporters, photographers and editors.
Timed to the walkout, the union will be holding a “Rally to Save Local Journalism” in downtown Los Angeles at the Gloria Molina Grand Park on Friday at noon. “The management of the Los Angeles Times has announced that it intends to imminently lay off a significant number of journalists, and is asking the Guild to gut seniority protections in our union contract so they...
The walkout — which the Los Angeles Times Guild is calling the first newsroom union strike in the paper’s history — is taking place in response to layoffs that management announced on Thursday as a means of reducing the paper’s 2024 budget. Staff members nationwide will be participating, the union said. The Times Guild represents around 400 editorial employees of the paper, including reporters, photographers and editors.
Timed to the walkout, the union will be holding a “Rally to Save Local Journalism” in downtown Los Angeles at the Gloria Molina Grand Park on Friday at noon. “The management of the Los Angeles Times has announced that it intends to imminently lay off a significant number of journalists, and is asking the Guild to gut seniority protections in our union contract so they...
- 1/19/2024
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
According to his resignation announcement, Kevin Merida’s abrupt Jan. 9 exit as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times came about through a “mutual agreement” with the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a biotech magnate turned publishing dilettante. This may well be true. From everything that can be gleaned about Merida’s less-than-three-year bumpy tenure as Soon-Shiong’s No. 1 at the 143-year-old publishing institution, there was plenty of mutual dissatisfaction, mutual distrust and maybe even mutual disdain.
Times watchers will recall that Merida’s arrival at the paper in 2021 was greeted with great fanfare. The 66-year-old former Washington Post editor and Pulitzer finalist had been hired after a grueling months-long head-hunting expedition that involved some 30 aspirants, including New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and former Hollywood Reporter editor (and Ankler co-founder) Janice Min, as well as a slew of in-house contenders (deputy managing editor Julia Turner, New York...
Times watchers will recall that Merida’s arrival at the paper in 2021 was greeted with great fanfare. The 66-year-old former Washington Post editor and Pulitzer finalist had been hired after a grueling months-long head-hunting expedition that involved some 30 aspirants, including New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and former Hollywood Reporter editor (and Ankler co-founder) Janice Min, as well as a slew of in-house contenders (deputy managing editor Julia Turner, New York...
- 1/18/2024
- by Jason McGahan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Los Angeles Times is making a change atop its newsroom.
Kevin Merida, who has been executive editor of the storied newspaper for the last three years, told staff Tuesday that he would be leaving the company, according to a memo viewed by The Hollywood Reporter.
“Today, with a heavy heart, I announce that I am leaving The Times,” Merida wrote. “I made the decision, in consultation with Patrick, after considerable soul-searching about my career at this stage and how best to be of value to the profession I love.”
The news caught the Times newsroom off-guard, according to one source.
Merida joined the Times from ESPN in 2021, with owner Patrick Soon-Shiong saying at the time that the editor had “a clear understanding of the rigor necessary for independent journalism and how to translate that journalism to multiple platforms.”
A newsroom veteran, Merida had led ESPN’s The Undefeated since...
Kevin Merida, who has been executive editor of the storied newspaper for the last three years, told staff Tuesday that he would be leaving the company, according to a memo viewed by The Hollywood Reporter.
“Today, with a heavy heart, I announce that I am leaving The Times,” Merida wrote. “I made the decision, in consultation with Patrick, after considerable soul-searching about my career at this stage and how best to be of value to the profession I love.”
The news caught the Times newsroom off-guard, according to one source.
Merida joined the Times from ESPN in 2021, with owner Patrick Soon-Shiong saying at the time that the editor had “a clear understanding of the rigor necessary for independent journalism and how to translate that journalism to multiple platforms.”
A newsroom veteran, Merida had led ESPN’s The Undefeated since...
- 1/9/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The memorial service for retired Army general, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is set for Friday in Washington D.C., with the broadcast news networks and their digital and affiliate outlets planning live coverage that will impact regular daytime programming.
Coverage at National Cathedral will begin just before noon Et/9 a.m. Pt. C-Span and the cable news networks will join ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS in providing live reports from the ceremony, which will include tributes from Richard Armitage, Madeleine Albright and Powell’s son Michael.
You can watch a livestream here:
Powell died October 18 at age 84 from complications of Covid-19. Born in Harlem the son of Jamaican immigrants, he played an influential role in shaping foreign and military policy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Here’s what the...
Coverage at National Cathedral will begin just before noon Et/9 a.m. Pt. C-Span and the cable news networks will join ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS in providing live reports from the ceremony, which will include tributes from Richard Armitage, Madeleine Albright and Powell’s son Michael.
You can watch a livestream here:
Powell died October 18 at age 84 from complications of Covid-19. Born in Harlem the son of Jamaican immigrants, he played an influential role in shaping foreign and military policy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Here’s what the...
- 11/5/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Washington Post has named Sally Buzbee, who has spent her career at the Associated Press, as its next executive editor, succeeding Marty Baron.
Buzbee will be the first woman to lead the Post, which has nearly 1,000 employees in its newsroom.
She currently is the AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, and has been with the wire service since the start of her journalism career in 1988.
The announcement ends months of speculation over who would succeed Baron, credited with revitalizing the Post after he joined in 2013. He retired earlier this year, and publisher and CEO Fred Ryan conducted a 10-week search.
“Sally is widely admired for her absolute integrity, boundless energy, and dedication to the essential role journalism plays in safeguarding our democracy,” Ryan wrote in a note to the staff. “She is an inspiring leader and accomplished journalist in the finest traditions of The Washington Post and...
Buzbee will be the first woman to lead the Post, which has nearly 1,000 employees in its newsroom.
She currently is the AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, and has been with the wire service since the start of her journalism career in 1988.
The announcement ends months of speculation over who would succeed Baron, credited with revitalizing the Post after he joined in 2013. He retired earlier this year, and publisher and CEO Fred Ryan conducted a 10-week search.
“Sally is widely admired for her absolute integrity, boundless energy, and dedication to the essential role journalism plays in safeguarding our democracy,” Ryan wrote in a note to the staff. “She is an inspiring leader and accomplished journalist in the finest traditions of The Washington Post and...
- 5/11/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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