By: Joe Strupp More than three weeks after firing Editor Jim O'Shea, the Los Angeles Times has yet to name a replacement. But, according to the New York Observer, internal staff preferences are split over two choices.
"On this issue, the paper is literally torn in two. There?s the innovation editor, the 49-year-old Russ Stanton, the man credited for transforming latimes.com from a barely functional, moribund Web site into something of a machine; on the other side is the 60-year-old Mr. Arthur, a 22-year veteran of the paper who has worked his way methodically up the editorial chain."
O'Shea, who was at the helm for only 14 months, became the third top editor to leave the paper since 2005 when he departed Jan. 21. He had replaced Dean Baquet, who left in late 2006 after just over a year on the job.
Baquet, now Washington, D.C., bureau chief at The New York Times, had taken over for John Carroll in 2005 when Carroll retired following a five-year stint at the helm.
Times officials did not immediately return calls for comment Wednesday.
The entire New York Observer piece can be found
here.
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