The Los Angeles Times has made plans to transfer control of its monthly magazine from its newsroom to its business operations and to replace the magazine’s entire editorial staff, according to the New York Times.

The plan for the magazine was set in motion months ago.

More details?

A new editor and others were hired, future issues were planned including a Michelle Obama Cover, and mock-up covers were made — all without the knowledge of anyone in the newsroom, including the top editor, Russ Stanton, the executives said.

Stanton and other high-ranking editors learned of the plan last week, they said.

The executives who described the above events at the magazine (which now be changing because of editorial outrage) said they had to remain anonymous.

The executives said that Mr. Stanton had made a commitment to try to find places elsewhere in The Times for the magazine’s current editorial staff, which has about nine people.

(New York Times)

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