#  What They’re Saying (NYT): A Firing at The Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent

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> ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2015/077z1.png)VOICES--In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of [Tribune Publishing Company](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/tribune-publishing-company/index.html?inline=nyt-org "More information about Tribune Publishing Company"), took his senior management team to visit The Los Angeles Times, the jewel in his company’s portfolio of newspapers.
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> At a reception at the newspaper, and a dinner downtown, there was one notable absentee — The Times’s new publisher, Austin Beutner. At meetings the next day, he showed up for just an hour, to make a presentation on his strategy for the paper — one squarely at odds with that of its corporate parent.
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> Tribune has long pushed to centralize virtually all operations and direct them from headquarters in Chicago, running its newspapers as a group.
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> Mr. Beutner, 55, a prominent Angeleno who made a fortune in finance and who once served as deputy mayor, was outlining an independent path for The Times that was relentlessly local and focused on better technology, new sections and events.
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> He was forging close relationships with Los Angeles civic and business leaders who wanted a vibrant Los Angeles Times as part of the fabric of the city. He had driven the acquisition of The San Diego Union-Tribune, part of a plan to dominate journalism in California.
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> Two weeks ago, he was called to a conference room and fired. *(*[*Read the rest*](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/media/firing-at-los-angeles-times-focuses-discontent.html?utm_source=API%27s+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=c0d75daa4c-Need_to_Know_September_21_20159_21_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-c0d75daa4c-31691885&_r=1%20)*[)](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/media/firing-at-los-angeles-times-focuses-discontent.html?utm_source=API%27s+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=c0d75daa4c-Need_to_Know_September_21_20159_21_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-c0d75daa4c-31691885&_r=1%20)*
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