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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    LA Times CEO Fired

    Austin Beutner, CEO and Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, is out of a job this morning. He was fired by his bosses at the Tribune Company. “I am not departing by choice, nor is this some ‘mutual agreement,’” he said on Facebook. Tim Ryan, the publisher of the Baltimore Sun, will take over.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 8, 2015 • 1 min read

    Austin Beutner, CEO and Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, is out of a job this morning. He was fired by his bosses at the Tribune Company. “I am not departing by choice, nor is this some ‘mutual agreement,’” he said on Facebook. Tim Ryan, the publisher of the Baltimore Sun, will take over.

    The full episode

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    LA Times CEO Fired, Inventing the Cheeseburger, and 'Can I Go Now?'
    1. 0:00LA Times CEO FiredYou’re reading this
    2. 10:41A Close Look at Guatemala's Election
    3. 17:04How Serena and Venus Williams' Grew Up Playing Tennis in Compton
    4. 28:06'Can I Go Now? The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent'
    5. 44:09Who Invented the Cheeseburger?
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Kevin Roderick

      LA Observed

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    LA Times CEO Fired, Inventing the Cheeseburger, and 'Can I Go Now?'
    1. 0:00LA Times CEO FiredYou’re reading this
    2. 10:41A Close Look at Guatemala's Election
    3. 17:04How Serena and Venus Williams' Grew Up Playing Tennis in Compton
    4. 28:06'Can I Go Now? The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent'
    5. 44:09Who Invented the Cheeseburger?
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand