The Daily News gets an editor ‘as needed’ until a replacement is found.

Robert York, editor-in-chief of The Daily News of New York, is being replaced on an interim and “as needed” position by his company brother, Andrew Julien, editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant. An executive at the newspaper’s publisher said the search for a permanent editor is ongoing.

The change, which took effect immediately, was announced in memos sent Monday to employees of the Daily News and Courant by Toni Martinez, a human resources manager at the newspapers’ parent company, Tribune Publishing. A Tribune spokesperson confirmed the news, but did not give a reason for Mr York’s departure.

York, who was editor and publisher of another Tribune title, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., before he took over the Daily News editorship in 2018, declined to comment on Monday.

Ms. Martinez wrote that Mr. Julien “raised in New York and was keen to work with The Daily News’ talented staff”.

The Daily News, the tabloid and The Courant, once the nation’s largest circulation newspaper (and the inspiration for The Daily Planet, for which Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent worked), is under new ownership. In May, Tribune was acquired by New York hedge fund Alden Global Capital in a $633 million deal.

Other Tribune papers include The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and The Orlando Sentinel. The deal makes Alden, which also owns the newspapers through a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, the second largest newspaper chain in the United States after Gannett.

Both The Daily News and The Courant fired staff through proposed acquisitions shortly after the acquisition was complete. Eight Daily News employees and five Courant employees approved the acquisitions in May, according to the figures. compiled By NewsGuild, the union that represents journalists in both newspapers.

The Tribune acquisition by Alden was opposed by journalists at the Tribune newspapers, who urged the previous administration to seek local, philanthropic owners for the Tribune papers. A Maryland businessman looking to give The Sun to a new local nonprofit group made an alternative offer, but it failed to get funding, and Tribune shareholders approved Alden’s offer in May.