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Former Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief Lewis D’Vorkin and dozens of other employees of Tronc Inc. were dismissed on Thursday. The cuts, which were made in a joint meeting with all the laid off employees present, included Tribune Interactive’s Los Angeles-based video and online content teams, which operate…

Tronc is hoping its sale of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune will close “in days or weeks,” the company’s CFO, Terry Jiminez, told investors during a conference call to discuss the company’s fourth-quarter results. The sale to biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, for $500 million in cash plus the…

Tronc confirmed this morning that it has sold the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong for $500 million plus the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities. Because of the healthy sale price and the removal of longstanding friction between management and newly…

Los Angeles Times publisher Ross Levinsohn has been placed on an unpaid leave of absence pending the outcome of parent company tronc’s investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, the company confirmed. Times President Mickie Rosen will lead the Times in Levinsohn’s absence, with Lewis D'Vorkin continuing to…

In a first for the 136-year-old Los Angeles Times, editorial workers have voted to join a union. The overwhelming vote of 248-44 was certified today by the National Labor Relations Board. Voting began earlier this month. The employees will be represented by the Washington-based NewsGuild-Communications Workers of Ameri…

The Los Angeles Times parent company tronc said it is launching an investigation following allegations of past sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct in work settings involving LAT publisher Ross Levinsohn. National Public Radio reported today that Levinsohn had been sued in two separate sexual harassment cases…

There’s big news today in the Los Angeles Times newsroom. Tronc, which owns the paper, axed Davan Maharaj as editor and publisher, tapping former Fox and Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn for the top business job. The paper said Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, Deputy Managing Editor for Digital Megan Garvey and Assistant…

Lenny Daniels To Run Turner Sports This is a promotion for Lenny Daniels, who was EVP and COO of Turner Broadcasting System’s sports operation. He’ll handle day-to-day management and continue to work with TBS President David Levy on strategic issues including acquisitions, programming and expanding sports media…

Guggenheim won’t comment about Ross Levinsohn‘s departure, first reported by Re/code. But the development has been long expected, even though the former Yahoo interim CEO has only been at the investment firm’s media operation — which includes The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Dick Clark Productions — since…

EXCLUSIVE: EVP Zander Lurie has confirmed that he plans to leave Guggenheim Digital Media. That will make him the second of CEO Ross Levinsohn's top lieutenants to bolt over the past three months, and company watchers are wondering how long the former Yahoo interim CEO will remain at the firm that owns The Hollywood Re…

Yahoo probably would have focused more on media than on technology if it had chosen Ross Levinsohn to be CEO instead of former Google exec Marissa Mayer. But Levinsohn, who served as interim CEO for two months, tells CNBC that he’s pleased to see “optimism again” under Mayer and urges investors to “give her time.&#8221…

It would have been awkward for former Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn to have stayed after Yahoo passed him over and named former Google exec Marissa Mayer to the top job. But he’ll be nicely compensated for his two-month stint running the company after former CEO Scott Thompson left in May following disclosures that he…