Jim Kirk

Los Angeles Times

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Jim Kirk is interim executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is a former editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Los Angeles Times' new publisher and CEO Ross Levinsohn, along with new interim executive editor Jim Kirk discuss their plans for a newspaper that has been battered by years of…

New LA Times leadership on the paper's future

The Los Angeles Times' new publisher and CEO Ross Levinsohn, along with new interim executive editor Jim Kirk discuss their plans for a newspaper that has been battered by years of…

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