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LOS ANGELES — Eddy Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported Saturday.
Hartenstein, a pioneering satellite-television executive with no newspaper experience, will take over Monday. His job will be to invigorate a newspaper that has cut hundreds of jobs as it struggles with plunging circulation and ad revenue in the Internet age.
Hartenstein will be the fourth Times publisher since the newspaper was acquired in 2000 by Chicago-based Tribune Co. The post has been vacant since David Hiller resigned July 14.
