MediaBuyerPlanner: A round of severe editorial cuts is looming on the horizon at the San Francisco Chronicle, and in order to give editor Phil Bronstein a freer hand in making the painful restructuring changes to the newsroom, managing editor Robert Rosenthal is leaving the paper.
Rosenthal’s departure comes without “rancor or acrimony,” he said in a note to staff on Tuesday, writes the AP (via Yahoo). He wants to be in a situation where he can “build something rather than take it apart,” he said.
Interestingly, the veteran newspaperman claimed that the business model for newspapers is “clearly broken,” and he believes it’s time for journalists’ skills to be applied “in a different way.”
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