• Associated Press, Monday, August 18, 2008 10:15 AM

Eddy W. Hartenstein, former head of DirecTV with no newspaper experience, is the new publisher of The Los Angeles Times. His job will be to invigorate a newspaper that has cut hundreds of jobs as circulation and advertising revenue decline.

Hartenstein is the fourth Times publisher since the newspaper was acquired in 2000 by the Tribune Company. The post has been vacant since David Hiller resigned on July 14, during a round of staff cutbacks.

Hartenstein, 57, said Sam Zell, chief executive of the Tribune Company, basically told him: "'You're the publisher and CEO. It's your [paper] to run,'" according to Hartenstein, an engineer and a founding father of satellite television.

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