Bryan Gottlieb, who has served as editor of Metro Times for 11 months, has been released by the weekly paper's new owners.
The statement said:
Euclid Media Group, the new owners of Detroit Metro Times, have (sic) announced a change in management at the 34-year-old alternative newsweekly. Editor Bryan Gottlieb, who was hired in February 2013, will leave the position, which will be temporarily filled by Interim Editor Vince Grzegorek, who is the editor of Cleveland Scene Magazine, another Euclid Media property.
The decision is part of a new approach to investing the paper with added resources, editorial staff and a more energetic approach to reaching metro Detroit readers.
A search for a new editor and additional staff writers for Detroit Metro Times will begin going forward.
Gottlieb was born in Detroit and raised in West Bloomfield Township. He earned a journalism degree from UCLA in 1999 after working for two years at Adweek in New York, covering online advertising. He stayed in California after college, working for 14 months as a financial reporter at the San Diego Daily Transcript business publication, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He switched careers during the last decade, spending nearly eight years as managing partner of a Metro Detroit residential construction and land development company, MBHuron Valley Group. Gottlieb replaced longtime editor W. Kim Heron, who resigned in late 2012.
Euclid Media Group purchased the Ferndale-based Metro Times late last year. The company also owns alternative newsweeklies in San Antonio, Texas, and Orlando, Fla.
