Editorial Page Editor Jim Newton, a 19-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, will leave the newspaper to return to a book project that he postponed 14 months ago to take his current post, he and Times Publisher David Hiller said Tuesday.Hiller said that he expected to name a successor in the next couple of weeks and that Newton would stay on through July to provide a good transition.The publisher announced Newton’s departure in a staff-wide e-mail, and Newton followed a few minutes later w
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., once the front-runner in bidding for Tribune Co.’s Newsday, has withdrawn its $580-million offer for the Long Island,
N.Y., daily newspaper, a News Corp.
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