Severe cutbacks at the
Los Angeles Times now include
Features Editor Leo Wolinsky, a 31-year veteran of the city’s largest newspaper.
Wolinsky reportedly clashed with editor Russ Stanton over the future of the paper’s entertainment coverage. Wolinsky’s position has been eliminated.
The Times is implementing another round of job cuts, through buyouts and layoffs, that is expected to reduce the current editorial staff to 650, a loss of about 75 jobs from current levels, only months after slashing 15% of its workforce.
These cuts will be the first under
new publisher Eddy Hartenstein, the third publisher at the
Times since 2006.
At its peak near the start of this decade the paper boasted 1,200 editorial employees, but it has been hacking away at overhead in response to declining revenues and a sluggish economy.