Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/l-a-times-fires-another-editor-amid-dispute-over-cost-cutting Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript For the third time in less than three years, the Los Angeles Times has fired its top editor -- this time ousting James O'Shea -- for rejecting an order to impose $4 million in budget cuts. Media experts offer analysis of the struggles at the newspaper. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Next, the continuing difficult times for the Los Angeles Times. Jeffrey Brown has our Media Unit update. JEFFREY BROWN: For the third time in less than three years, one of the nation's leading newspapers has parted ways with its top editor in a dispute over cost-cutting.James O'Shea was fired by the Los Angeles Times this weekend after he rejected a management order to make newsroom budget cuts. Fifteen months earlier, O'Shea's predecessor, Dean Baquet, was dismissed in a similar dispute. And in 2005, John Carroll resigned, blaming "financial pressures."The L.A. Times is owned by the Chicago-based Tribune Company, which just last month was taken private in a buyout by real estate magnate Sam Zell.Joining me to update the situation is Jon Fine, who writes a weekly column called "Media Centric" for BusinessWeek magazine, and Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization. Among his many past jobs in journalism was a stint as media critic for the Los Angeles Times.