The L.A. Times new editor, Russ Stanton, continues to clean house. MaryKaye Schilling, the print-online hybrid editor brought in to remake the paper's events tabloid, The Guide, is out. Ms. Schilling was a close ally to the paper's recently ousted features editor, John Montorio. Here's the memo:

MaryKaye Schilling, editor of The Guide for print and online, is leaving the paper.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/l-times-guide-editor-montorio-ally-out#comments Media John Montorio L.A. Times MaryKaye Schilling Russ Stanton Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:24:05 -0400 John Koblin 66790 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2008/john-montorio-print-apologist-shocked-i-l-times-i-firing

On Friday afternoon, in one of Russ Stanton's first acts as executive editor of The Los Angeles Times, he walked into the office of one of the paper's managing editors and fired him.

"I was shocked," said the editor, John Montorio, in an interview with The Observer. "It was really quite brief and to the point. There was no emotionalism, no hostility and bitterness. It was seriously better than that—no yelling, screaming, crying."

Mr. Montorio, managing editor for features, who heads up the Sunday Calendar, Daily Calendar, Weekend Calendar, Book Review, Home, Food, Travel, Real Estate, Health and "Highway 1" sections as well as the Sunday magazine, announced the news to the paper in a memo yesterday, saying he would be gone at the end of the month.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/john-montorio-print-apologist-shocked-i-l-times-i-firing#comments Arts & Culture Media John Montorio L.A. Times Russ Stanton The Los Angeles Times Tribune Company Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:29:57 -0500 John Koblin 65264 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2008/l-times-editor-john-montorio-out

John Montorio, who has run the features department at the L.A. Times, is out. A managing editor on the masthead, Montorio just sent out a memo to his staff revealing the news, explaining that the paper's new editor Russ Stanton wanted to take features in a "different direction, with a new leader." Nikki Finke, having heard this was about to happen over the weekend, described it over the weekend as a firing; other editors told us the same. Here's Montorio's memo.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/l-times-editor-john-montorio-out#comments Media John Montorio L.A. Times Russ Stanton Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:30:01 -0500 John Koblin 65245 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/44805 On Monday, July 23, News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch and Daily News editor Edward Kos  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44805#comments Media Gerald Boyd John Montorio Lachlan Murdoch Rupert Murdoch Sun, 05 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400 NYO Staff 44805 at http://www.observer.com