Former And Current LA Times EIC's Debate Staff Cuts
Last winter Los Angeles Times editor Jim O’Shea was let go for resisting staff cuts. “Newspapers are a manufacturing industry,” O’Shea told Neiman Journalism Lab “At some point, you’re gonna cut it to the point where you won’t be able to get the thing out the door because you don’t have enough employees.”
Current editor Russ Stanton—who has dismissed nearly 300 of the paper’s employees—didn’t see it quite this way. “Let’s just say that I don’t think the revenue picture has been improved enough to justify the size of the newsroom.”
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