Another LA Times editor quits in dispute over newsroom budget cuts
James O’Shea is the fourth senior executive to depart over a budget dispute in recent years. By Thomas S. Mulligan and Dawn Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers January 21, 2008 The editor of the Los Angeles Times will leave the paper in a dispute over newsroom cuts, becoming the fourth senior executive in less than three years to depart after resisting budget reductions. James E. O’Shea, editor since November 2006, said Sunday that he