Troubled Los Angeles Times Picks New Editor Amid Unrest<br />In an attempt to calm rising newsroom tensions at The Los Angeles Times, the paper was expected to name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist<br />and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, as its next editor in chief on Monday, according to company officials.<br />Earlier this month, Mr. Levinsohn offered some details of his plan when he made<br />a presentation to investors that described a “Los Angeles Times Network.”<br />The project was made more mysterious in recent weeks when newsroom employees discovered the names of several<br />apparently newly hired editors in an internal human resources database, an image of which was shared with .<br />Under the reorganization proposal, newly hired editors would supervise reporting<br />that could be fed to all Tronc publications, which include The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, according to several people briefed on the potential restructuring.<br />On January 19 — the same day that newsroom employees announced<br />that they had voted to unionize — the publisher, Ross Levinsohn, was put on leave following reports that he had previously been the subject of sexual harassment allegations.<br />Executives at the company made the decision to move Mr. D’Vorkin out of the top editor’s job as they were also<br />revisiting a sweeping reorganization plan, according to two company officials briefed on the discussions.<br />Since Mr. Levinsohn was put on leave, Tronc and Times executives have met in Chicago to talk about which<br />parts of the restructuring plan could continue, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
