Thursday, October 26, 2006

'Put Up More of a Fight' Baquet Urges Editors to Cuts


NEW ORLEANS Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet on Thursday urged fellow newspaper editors to resist business side staff reductions blindly.

Just weeks after his public battle with Tribune Company over potential cutbacks, which ended with the forced resignation of former publisher Jeff Johnson and speculation that Baquet himself might be leaving, the veteran editor told editors here that they, too, must not give in to demands for cutbacks.

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