Tribune Editor Resigns

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jul 14, 2008 5:26PM

Chicago Tribune editor Anne Marie Lipinski resigned today, just a week after the Trib announced cuts in its newsroom staff. In a memo she sent to staffers, Lipinski said her last day will be Thursday and that it's "inaccurate to attribute [her resignation] to any one event." Although we could probably attribute it to any one guy, and his name starts with a Sam and ends with a Z-E-L-L. Gerould W. Kern, Tribune Publishing's vice president of editorial, has been named as her replacement.

"[P]rofessionally, this position is not the fit it once was," Lipinski wrote and an e-mail to Trib employees. "...[T]here is much to do and your new owners should have their own editor, compatible with their style and goals." Snap!

Lipinski has been the editor of the Trib since 2001, and she started at the paper as an intern in 1978. She's the fourth editor of a major paper to quit this year: LA Times editor James O'Shea, Wall Street Journal managing ed Marcus Brauchli, and Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr. all ditched their posts in recent months. [Trib, Editor and Publisher]