Mr. Guthman was a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter and editor and an aide to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s.

Eddy W. Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of The Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported.

One problem with managing a bunch of print journalists is that when you fire them, they are still journalists, prone to grumbling about whatever they consider unfair.

David D. Hiller’s departure came on the same day as the resignation of the editor at another major Tribune Company newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.

The decision to eliminate more than one-sixth of the newsroom staff and publish 15 percent fewer pages is the deepest of a series of cuts at the Tribune Company as it tries to stay afloat.

Control of the monthly magazine would switch from its newsroom to its business operations and the entire editorial staff would be replaced.

The company that owns The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune will print fewer papers and employ fewer journalists.