Editor and Publisher"Cautious and worried people don't often produce the best journalism," notes former Los Angeles Times editor
John Carroll. He tells
Joe Strupp that "when you take into account how brief the editorships of
Dean Baquet and
Jim O'Shea were and how brief the editorship of my predecessor,
Michael Parks, was, my time there starts to look like a dynasty." Carroll was Times editor for five years.
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Rieder: Not too auspicious a start for the Sam Zell Era at Tribune (AJR)