The L.A. Times new editor, Russ Stanton, continues to clean house. MaryKaye Schilling, the print-online hybrid editor brought in to remake the paper’s events tabloid, The Guide, is out. Ms. Schilling was a close ally to the paper’s recently ousted features editor, John Montorio. Here’s the memo:
MaryKaye Schilling, editor of The Guide for Read More
Michael Calderone at Politico reports that L.A. Times editor Russ Stanton is meeting with the paper’s D.C. bureau tomorrow. On the agenda: Damage control from last week’s bloody Sam Zell meeting where the paper’s new owner said, in essence, that there were too many reporters working there.
Also to be discussed, Calderone reports, is Read More
The L.A. Times has put a brand new masthead on its Web site—and wow! What a masthead!
It’s almost impossible to find mastheads online for most papers and magazines, and even then, it’s generally reserved for top editors. But now the Russ Stanton era has begun in earnest at the L.A. Times, virtually everyone Read More
On Friday afternoon, in one of Russ Stanton’s first acts as executive editor of The Los Angeles Times, he walked into the office of one of the paper’s managing editors and fired him.
“I was shocked,” said the editor, John Montorio, in an interview with The Observer. “It was really quite brief and to the Read More
John Montorio, who has run the features department at the L.A. Times, is out. A managing editor on the masthead, Montorio just sent out a memo to his staff revealing the news, explaining that the paper’s new editor Russ Stanton wanted to take features in a "different direction, with a new leader." Nikki Finke, having Read More
Rub the sleep out of those eyes: it’s the morning-after in L.A.!
Richard Perez-Pena at The New York Times reports that Los Angeles Times publisher David Hiller actually had Russ Stanton pegged as his pick for weeks, well before Jim O’Shea left the paper. Some staffers were so dismayed over that decision that they Read More
Some accounts are coming in from the new L.A. Times executive editor Russ Stanton’s speech to the newsroom today.
One editor wrote to Media Mob: "It was subdued, receptive but kind of calm. which i think is reassuring. he is not an electric speaker, read from a prepared speech, but it was defeinitely well received, Read More
We’ve started making our phone calls to the L.A. Times newsroom. We were instant messaging with one harried editor who couldn’t talk because said editor had to "go down to newsroom for the installation in ten." That was at 2:20 p.m. (our time), so presumably Russ Stanton is being coronated right now (Nancy Sullivan, spokeswoman Read More
The Los Angeles Times has a new editor, according to a press release that just went out.
“The Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) today unveiled significant changes to its organization and leadership team, including the announcement that Russ Stanton has been named Los Angeles Times Editor,” the release reads in part. And this from Read More
