Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida announced Tuesday that he was stepping down 2½ years after joining The Times as its newsroom leader.| Los Angeles Times
Merida told more than 550 Times employees that the paper was facing a budget hole of "tens of millions of dollars." Angry staff members protested cuts to the newsroom.| Los Angeles Times
Employees want to know: Why did people of color look to be more impacted, with the newsroom poised to lose its only Spanish-speaking photographers?| The Objective
The news sector alone has lost 2,681 jobs so far in 2023 — more than it did in all of 2022 or 2021.| Poynter