Julia Turner, a top content executive of the Los Angeles Times, resigned Tuesday, saying she would “take some time to explore how we can develop sustainable business models for news in the digital age.”
Turner, the Times’ senior vice president for content business strategy, announced her exit in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) and in a note to the newspaper’s staff, becoming the latest casualty of a newsroom in turmoil.
The Times, which two weeks ago laid off 120 editorial staffers, has also lost at least six top news-related officials in the past month.
The layoffs, in turn, followed two weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida abruptly resigned, in part because he knew he would have to oversee sweeping cutbacks at a publication that was operating without a publisher or CEO and losing about $40 million a year. Through