The Los Angeles Times has fired its top editor, Jim O'Shea, after he rejected a management order to cut $4m (£2.05m) from the editorial budget. His departure comes 14 months after his predecessor was ousted in a budget dispute, and he is the fourth senior executive to depart for similar reasons in recent years.
Publisher David Hiller denied that O'Shea had been fired, saying that his exit was part of a reorganisation plan under the paper's new ownership. Its corporate parent, Tribune, was bought out last month in an $8.2bn (£4.2bn) deal engineered by Chicago real estate tycoon Sam Zell. See the backstory here. (Via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
