Los Angeles Times Mexican Standoff is Over

As the news sinks in that the Editor of the Los Angeles Times
has resigned, employee moral has taken another hit by those
remaining at the newspaper.

Will the changes at the top of the Los Angeles Times impact the already beaten down circulation numbers, time will tell.

With the annual purge at the LA Times to take place right before Christmas, we will be losing from fifty to seventy-five editorial employees this year. The Times grapevine claims layoffs and buyouts will happen across all departments next month, no one is saying much on this subject.

Employees of the Operations Departments are positive no further cuts can be made in the departments that produce the newspaper, I wouldn't be so certain about this. With circulation falling and the publisher telling us he will move print media to online editions, anything is possible.

From New York Observer

Mr. Heller’s remarks, which immediately followed Mr. Baquet’s, met with a considerably more tempered reception. “I didn’t think it would come to this,” the publisher said.

He spoke in a dull tone and told the staff that cuts were coming, but repeatedly said that there would be no layoffs this year.

“Through the end of the year, there are no cuts in sight,” a witness reported him saying.

Given that there were only 50-some days left till the end of the year, the remark drew reporters’ “gallows laughter.”

The laughter from the reporters tells it all.