The Los Angeles Times, for decades a microcosm of the downward spiral of the print news industry, suffered its latest gut-wrench this morning with the announcement that publisher and chief executive Austin Beutner has been fired by the paper’s Chicago-based overlords after just 13 months on the job. The announcement came late this morning after the ouster was reported in sharply divergent stories in th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PM on September 8, 2015