By the late 1990s, all of the high level editors who had worked with Eugene Roberts in the 1970s and 1980s had left, none at normal retirement age.
The investigation went so far as to reveal that a high-level editor at Newsday had been one of those profiting from the deals.
In a way, it is a return for Ms. McDaniel, who was a high-level editor of Newsweek and had been considered a candidate for editor, but moved in the 1990s to the corporate side.
This month, a high-level editor at Lean In, the foundation Sheryl Sandberg started to help women "pursue their ambitions," tried using Facebook to find a "part-time, unpaid" intern "with editorial and social chops" as well as "Web skills".
Douglas E. Kneeland, a former reporter for The New York Times who covered some of the major stories of the 1960s and '70s and later became a high-level editor at The Chicago Tribune, died on Saturday in Lincoln, Me., the town in which he was born and to which he returned in retirement.
Random House Publishing Group has completed its restructuring, resulting in the layoffs of at least four high-level editors.
During Raines's tenure, several high-level editors who had been moving steadily up the ranks found themselves sidelined.
Mr. Puerner's investment in the newsroom -- which is budgeted for 1,100 jobs, about the same as at the end of the the Times-Mirror period -- has underwritten not only the hiring of high-level editors but also the extensive coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath.
High-level editors at Condé Nast said that a decision by the company to hire the consulting firm McKinsey & Company to review how things are done at the magazines — presumably with the objective of improving efficiency and saving money — has made staffers nervous.
There has been significant movement within Politico's newsroom in recent weeks, with high-level editors and senior writers both coming and going.
It was also praised for its high level of difficulty by editors of GamesRadar and Bitmob.
