P. M. BRIEFING : Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns
Chicago Tribune Editor James D. Squires announced his resignation today, effective Jan. 1, 1990.
No successor was named immediately.
“My decision was made for two reasons--to ease and expedite the transition to a new era of newspaper leadership, begun this time last year, with the appointment of a new president--and to placate my own restless heart,” Squires said in a statement.
Squires referred to the appointment last year of Tribune President John W. Madigan.
Squires was named editor of the Tribune in 1981. Previously he was editor of the Orlando Sentinel and chief of the Tribune’s Washington bureau.
His tenure at the Tribune has been marked by often surprising and sweeping changes in staff assignments, including a recent switch of the newspaper’s legal reporter to the Notre Dame football beat.
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