Tribune editor resigns

Chicago Tribune Editor and Senior Vice President Ann Marie Lipinski announced her resignation today, less than a week after the paper announced significant cuts to its newsroom staff and a reduction in the number of weekly pages it prints.

Gerould W. Kern, 58, who has been Tribune Publishing's vice president of editorial since 2003, was named Lipinski's successor by Tribune Publishing Executive Vice President Bob Gremillion, who assumed interim oversight of the paper this month after the retirement of Publisher Scott C. Smith. Lipinski said in a note to staff that her final day will be Thursday.

"[The] decision was difficult and a long time coming and it would be inaccurate to attribute it to any one event," Lipinski, 52, who joined the paper as an intern in 1978 and was named the 161-year-old newspaper's 20th editor in 2001, wrote in her memo.

"I began my editorship seven months before 9/11 and in the seven years since have become accustomed and even comfortable with editing and managing through crisis and change," she wrote. "But professionally, this position is not the fit it once was. Personally, my family and I believe it is time."

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