Nine months after he was hired promising to bring the city's "irony, wit and humor" to the Daily News, Pete Hamill has resigned as editor-in-chief.
Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, who had praised Hamill for his "New York savvy" when he hired him, issued a memo to the staff that said "notwithstanding our interest in having Pete Hamill remain as Editor-in-Chief, he has decided to resign."Zuckerman made no mention of a successor.
The publisher and Hamill reportedly disagreed over how to reverse a drop in circulation.