Ex-U-T Editor and Publisher Jeff Light Reveals How He …

Jeff Light Out as Union-Tribune Publisher, Editor as Buyouts Bloody San ...Ken Stone, Author at Times of San Diego

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Why did Jeff Light leave the San Diego Union-Tribune?

The editor and publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune is leaving the paper after 13 years, he announced Thursday. In a 165-word email to staff, Jeff Light wrote that he would leave “this week” but didn’t say if it was the result of taking a buyout offered to newsroom employees. On Friday, his last day, he declined to say how he’s leaving. ...

Is U-T transforming its old newspaper to a digital future?

U-T Publisher Jeff Light sounded not just optimistic, but even a little boastful as he unveiled the experiment, part of his attempt to transition what’s left of the old legacy newspaper to a digital future. ...

Who is leaving the U-T newspaper?

Others confirmed to be leaving the paper — some first reported by NBC San Diego — include: As of Thursday, the U-T listed 107 editorial employees (including contract worker Nick Canepa, the veteran sports columnist). Staffs of the morning Union and afternoon Tribune, which merged in 1992, exceeded 500 in the 1980s. ...

When did John Light join the Union-Tribune?

He joined the Union-Tribune as its top editor in March 2010, succeeding Karin Winner, and was made publisher in 2016. Light said expanding the Union-Tribune’s brand as a multimedia operation was crucial to keep up with readers’ changing media habits. ...

Who owns U-T & why is he still at a 'full time'?

“There’s still a lot of dust to settle,” the staffer told Times of San Diego 10 days after Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong announced the sale of the 154-year-old U-T to MediaNews Group, a Denver-based operating unit of Alden Global Capital. On LinkedIn, Light’s page says he’s now “at large” with no title but “full time.” ...

Who is John Light?

Light came to the Union-Tribune from the Orange County Register in 2010, where in 1996 he was part of the staff of the Santa Ana-based paper awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on fraud at fertility clinics. It is with a heavy heart that I share that I am among the SDUT folks leaving after the sale of the paper. ...