Seattle Times Editor to Step Down in Surprise Move

Seattle Times: Seattle Times editor Kathy Best announced Wednesday she is leaving the newspaper to take the helm at the newspaper in Missoula, Mont. Best made the announcement to stunned staff members: “As I look ahead, it is clear that the person in this chair increasingly must be focused on creating a sustainable Seattle Times for the digital future. That’s totally doable, but will require even more meetings and even more time working on business strategies and budgets than I already spend. That’s not how I want to spend the last decade of my career in journalism.”