Blogs of Interest on Dean Baquet

Baquet aftermath
According to a person familiar with the situation, Mr. Hiller told Mr. Baquet last week that between 50 and 75 jobs would have to be eliminated from the newsroom. Mr. Baquet balked. The next day, Mr. Hiller and Mr. Baquet agreed to part ways.

L.A. Times’ Baquet Replaced by Chicago Guy
Now it was over. Mr. Baquet had become a news-industry folk hero, an inspiration for every editor with dreams of fighting off the spreadsheet-wielding, profit-target-setting out-of-town suits. Meanwhile, though, Mr. Johnson had been dismissed within a month of the rebellion and replaced by a new Chicago-supplied publisher, David Hiller.

Los Angeles Paper Ousts Top Editor
Dean Baquet, the editor of The Los Angeles Times, who defied orders from his corporate bosses to cut jobs, was forced out of his own job yesterday, shocking the newsroom just as it was gearing up to cover election returns.

Requiem for an Editor
It was always clear that the overseers at Tribune Co. in Chicago were never going to tolerate the rebellion by their underlings at the Los Angeles Times. Jeff Johnson, the newspaper’s recalcitrant publisher and longtime Tribune loyalist, was unceremoniously ousted on Oct. 5. Then, on Nov. 7, Dean Baquet, the paper’s distinguished, obstreperous and Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, was forced out.

L.A. Times Editor Fired as Tribune Co. Remakes Itself
Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet, who publicly told the parent Tribune Co. that he would not make more cuts in his newsroom, was forced out of his job yesterday, another example of the economic pressures afflicting large media companies.

Chicago Tribune Screws the LA Times--On Election Day
OK, I've had it. I've been reading the LA Times since 1955, and while I have a problem with a columnist at that paper, I certainly think that bringing in a new publisher(from Harvard--weren't McNamara,Bush and Kerry from Harvard?) and now O'Shea from Chicago is an LA version of tipping over Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.

Editor Baquet out
L.A. Times Editor Dean Baquet was forced to resign last week, but the news (first broken today by the Wall Street Journal) wasn't supposed to be announced until Thursday. He'll be replaced on Monday by James O'Shea, managing editor of (none other than) the Chicago Tribune. Baquet's ouster follows that of former publisher Jeffrey Johnson, who was forced to resign last month by the Tribune Company over proposed staff cuts.