L.A. Times Management Ousted by Tronc in Shake-Up at Flagship

  • Media veteran Ross Levinsohn is named newspaper’s new CEO
  • Search on for new editor after newsroom management terminated

Ross Levinsohn

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Tronc Inc., the Chicago-based newspaper publisher, ousted the management of its flagship Los Angeles Times, naming media veteran Ross Levinsohn as publisher and launching a search for a new editor.

Levinsohn was also named chief executive officer, while Jim Kirk, former publisher and editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, was appointed interim editor while the newspaper seeks a new editor-in-chief, the company said Monday in a statementBloomberg Terminal.