The new management bought this rag from the Times. They put in an acting Publisher to take control. The journalists were evidently the usual MSM leftists, and took exceeding great umbrage because they weren't allowed to call people "Ms." Also, they were in a snit because a second story about the publisher driving under the influence was killed.
Cat fight is about right. But it sounds as if the new owners are, if not conservative, at least not as rabidly leftist as their former employees. Good luck to them.
Isn't it interesting that there is no mention of how the paper's owner was meddling. Strange as it may seem, it is most likely that she was more conservative than the staff. Even the writers of the articles posted here are giving incomplete facts of the story. Lefty journos do not even realize that they are experiencing life through a filter.