More Online Talent Departs The LA Times
The Los Angeles Times is losing its online managing editor to CNN.com, editor Russ Stanton confirmed in a staff email, reprinted below. The departure marks the further dismantling of a team that relaunched the site starting about five years ago.
As the New York Observer notes, Artley follows in the footsteps of our own Richard Rushfield, who was LATimes.com entertainment editor up through July, and in the wake of the head of the Times‘ online advertising, Juliana Jaoudi, and the head of online entertainment advertising, Jennifer Van Hook, both let go in the past week.
Formerly editor of IHT.com, Artley was part of a team of outsiders general manager Rob Barrett brought in after he was hired in 2005 to remake the site. Her departure, then, could lead to greater control by the newspaper’s print side of the heretofore relatively independent website.
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Universal praise my assfoot. Blech.
Let's hope she does SOME good on actually getting news across the US on the CNN website. It's a sad shame when CNN's news page for US stories is over two days old. Lord forbid they hire someone to actually sit there and update stories.
Cynner
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: yeah i feel like i'm reading the fucking place mat at ihop. like they're proud of their newly found total lack of stories. i wish i had just saved papers from 10 years ago on days i didn't read it. la times was the shit back then.
shostakobitch
MAybe Joel Sappell will come back.
Lulupasternak
@shostakobitch: It seems like since the site was redesigned, it tried to compete with the LA Weekly and didn't do nearly as good of a job. If there's any LA newspaper that needs a site revamp its the Weekly.
@bens: yup. the weekly has some fine writers but their portal is a mess. designed in ny?
Xinnix