A few newspapers have quit using Indian-related nicknames.
The editor of Kommersant, the daily Russian business newspaper, has quit just a month after it was a sold.
In March, Mr. Ridder, a scion of a nationally prominent newspaper family, quit as publisher of The Pioneer Press, which the Ridders had run for 80 years, to take the same job at The Star Tribune.
Seattle is a city almost universally regarded as one of the handsomest and most prosperous in North America: home to Boeing, Nordstrom, Starbucks and Microsoft; a place where bookstores are plentiful and political scandal is so scarce that newspaper reporters quit from boredom.
Ataollah Mohajerani, the minister in charge of press matters, spoke words of defiance: "If my ministry is going to be used as a tool for closing newspapers, I will quit".But, despite rebellious appearances, the reformers have lost this important round in the struggle for change.
Those journalists who quit newspapers to go solo have struggled to pull in readers.
You will never read it in the newspaper that Jerry Falwell quit.
Unni Espeland Marcussen, who heard the screams of her 17-year-old daughter Andrine shortly before she was shot in the head and chest by Breivik, told Aftenposten newspaper that she quit her job and has since tried to get back into work, but it has never worked out.
A9 Ex-Publisher's Appeal Jay T. Harris, who stunned the newspaper industry when he quit as publisher of The San Jose Mercury News, urged newspaper executives to resist harmful budget cuts and the "tyranny of the markets".
One of the men who helped complete the roof read about the attack on Pearl Harbor in the newspapers and decided to quit his work on the church and enlist in the United States Air Force.
