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Back in the late '90s, morale at the Los Angeles Times had reached an all-time low. The business side was being run by Mark Willes, a former president of General Mills who was dubbed the "cereal killer" and was resented at the newspaper for firing journalists and attempting to...
Fears about editorial integrity have been Topic A at the Times since 1997, when Mark Willes, 58, the former General Mills cereal executive, became publisher and vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types...
Since he signed on with the Times Mirror empire in 1995, Willes has moved with a ruthlessness that earned him the nicknames "Cap'n Crunch" and "the Cereal Killer." He whacked 2,000 jobs by killing the New York City edition of Newsday and slicing staff at papers like the...
For all his slashing and burning, Willes pays homage to the lofty ideals of journalism in a sprawling megalopolis. "This is a very splintered place to live, a remarkably diverse place with nothing in common. We'd like to be that thing in common, building bridges of understanding," he says...
What spooks Times reporters about the 56-year-old Willes is his determination to have editors work more closely with the advertising side to goose circulation and revenues. That blurs the age-old separation between reporters with tough stories to tell and admen selling space to companies the paper covers...