LA TIMES EDITOR RESIGNS

Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll is leaving the paper five years and 13 Pulitzer Prizes after taking the job. He'll be succeeded on August 15th by Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor, who'll also be executive vice president. In 1988, Baquet led a team at the Chicago Tribune that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Carroll was named editor in April 2000 after the Tribune Company bought the newspaper's parent Times Mirror Company. Despite the paper's many awards since then, it's also had circulation and advertising declines.

Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll is leaving the paper five years and 13 Pulitzer Prizes after taking the job. He'll be succeeded on August 15th by Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor, who'll also be executive vice president. In 1988, Baquet led a team at the Chicago Tribune that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Carroll was named editor in April 2000 after the Tribune Company bought the newspaper's parent Times Mirror Company. Despite the paper's many awards since then, it's also had circulation and advertising declines.