Nola.com Baton Rouge editor resigns

After only seven months since arriving in Baton Rouge, the managing editor of Nola.com’s local bureau, Carlos Sanchez, has resigned. In a letter posted this afternoon on the news website, Sanchez says he is leaving to pursue an opportunity in his native Texas and also to be reunited with his family. In the letter, Sanchez says Nola.com was approaching 1 million page views a month just three months after creating a Baton Rouge home page. But sources say the local offices of Nola.com—which is the online incarnation of The Times-Picayune—have been fraught with challenges that are, at least, partly the result of a rapidly changing media landscape. Last fall, The Times-Picayune reduced its print publication to three days a week and began devoting more resources to its online product. About that same time, it beefed up its coverage of the Capital Region and opened a bureau in the One American Place building downtown. Also last fall, The Advocate opened a New Orleans bureau and increased its print circulation in the Crescent City. Sanchez could not be reached for further comment this afternoon. —Stephanie Riegel