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TIMES MIRROR CO. announced that it will withdraw from Newspapers First and serve national advertisers "by coordinating its own company-wide efforts," according to Richard Schlosberg III, executive vice president of Times Mirror and publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times.
Kingsley Anthony, Newspapers First president and CEO, said that the decision came as a surprise, but Times Mirror executives said that the move had been discussed internally for some time.
The Times Mirror decision comes on the heels of Anthony's recent announcement that he would leave Newspapers First on June 1 after a long affiliation with the organization.
Times Mirror publishes the Times as well as Newsday and New York Newsday; the Baltimore Sun; Hartford Courant; Allentown, Pa., Morning Call; Stamford, Conn., Advocate and Greenwich (Conn.) Time.
Collectively, the Times Mirror properties are said to account for...