Romenesko

New York Times
Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea has been fired just 14 months after assuming the post, over a budgetary disagreement with publisher David Hiller. "The dispute arose from Hiller's desire to cut the newsroom's expense budget during the heated presidential campaign, a time when such expenses usually spike," writes Richard Perez-Pena. O'Shea was Chicago Tribune managing editor before joining the Times in November 2006. Hiller was named publisher a month earlier. He had held the same position at the Chicago paper. (The Wall Street Journal was first to report O'Shea's dismissal.)
> Publisher Hiller had ordered O'Shea to carry out $4 million in cuts (LAT)