• The Wrap, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:03 PM

Annie Gilbar, editor of the Los Angeles Times' magazine LA, is out, part of a sweeping reorganization at the paper that takes the magazine out of the business department. Under new editor Nancie Clare, who previously served as deputy editor, LA will move back under the editorial department's umbrella.

The realignment comes about a year after the paper's Sunday magazine was reincarnated as the monthly LA, a luxurious, highly-stylized title launched amid controversy under the auspices of the business department. The launch showcased an internal power struggle between the editorial and business ranks at the LA Times.

Behind the launch was David Hiller, the paper's then-publisher. Hiller was eventually ousted, but the plan had already been hatched; Gilbar, former editor at InStyle and one-time host on the Home Shopping Network, was named editor. "This new move brings all our newsrooms together, reporting to [Times editor] Russ Stanton," says publisher Eddy Hartenstein. In the first three quarters of 2009, ad pages for LA fell 6.4%, per the PIB.

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