Two major editors gone in a matter of days?

PHILADELPHIA — The editor of Philadelphia’s largest newspaper will step down at the end of the year as the company’s new owners seek contract concessions, including deep newsroom cuts, in response to falling circulation and advertising revenue. Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett will be replaced by Bill Marimow, a former Baltimore Sun editor and Inquirer city editor who is now ombudsman at National Public Radio, the paper announced Wednesday. […] The paper’s department heads have been told by management to be prepared for as many as 150 people to be laid off. Through buyouts last year, the Inquirer had already reduced its editorial staff by about 15 percent, from 500 to 425. Its tabloid sister paper, the Philadelphia Daily News, had its editorial staff cut 19 percent, from 130 to 105.

Newspapers find themselves in a deepening crisis, and bias isn’t to blame for all their problems. In his post on the Baquet sacking, Jeff Jarvis explains what newspapers aren’t doing right.