Two Leaders to Step Down at Tribune Newspapers

The upheaval at the Tribune Company continued Monday as the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and the top editor of The Chicago Tribune stepped down, both at a time when their papers were preparing for major redesigns and deep cuts in their newsroom staffs. Ann Marie Lipinski, editor of The Tribune, announced her resignation after seven years in that job. In an interview and in a note to her staff, she insisted that there was no single reason for her departure, but hinted at discomfort with the direction Tribune was taking. David Hiller, the publisher of The Times, also announced that he was leaving, after a stint of less than two years during a turbulent time for the paper. He fired the top editor in 2006 for refusing to make budget cuts and forced out that editor's successor this year in a similar dispute. The company said that Mr. Hiller had resigned, but in a memo to his staff, he made it clear that it was not his choice to go. "Sam had other ideas and I will be leaving The Times," he wrote. "Sam's the boss and he gets to pick his own quarterback."