John Montorio
L.A. Times' 'The Guide' Editor, a Montorio Ally, is Out
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 »
John Montorio, Print Apologist, 'Shocked' at L.A. Times 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 »
L.A. Times Editor John Montorio Is 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 »
The Unlikely Meeting Between Ed Kosner and Rupert Murdoch
