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Will it consolidate some of the noneditorial departments?

Whatever the point of the battle, economic or editorial, the battleground is the joint agency that runs the noneditorial functions of both newspapers.

As far as noneditorial departments go, he said, "a hard look will be taken at that and the necessary reductions will be made."

"It's intended as a noneditorial view of the history," Mr. Hanke said, "an attempt to get away from stereotypes."

Bantam Doubleday Dell's job is now noneditorial: designing the dust jacket, printing the book, marketing.

That morning, a friend of Ms. Miller who works in a noneditorial job at The Times had shown her an advance copy of this magazine featuring my story on the case.

In its article, Fortune said that it and Business Week, which is published by McGraw-Hill Inc., did not allow advertising or other noneditorial executives to review articles before publication.

The magazine's parent company, Standard Media International, is expected to announce today that it will cut dozens of staff positions, mostly from noneditorial departments, according to a report on Friday on the media-news Web site Inside.com.

"I don't believe the integrity of our product has ever been in question," Mr. Rossiter said, adding that he had "written assurances of full control of the editorial product" that would be "without interference by noneditorial personnel."

There, lawyers representing the owners of The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitter rivals who have nonetheless shared advertising, production and other noneditorial costs under a 1981 joint operating agreement, will continue their feud.

When the papers first merged their business operations in 1981, intended partly to keep The Post-Intelligencer in business, The Post-Intelligencer agreed to receive 34 percent of profits from the arrangement (after noneditorial expenses had been paid).

It is true that Mr. Murdoch's decision taps into the primal fear of book editors that a work in progress of theirs will be canceled for noneditorial reasons by a higher corporate authority, particularly now that so many publishers are owned by conglomerates.

Judge Greg Canova of King County Superior Court ruled that The Times had not lost money for a long enough period to justify an end to the 22-year-old agreement between the newspapers that allows them to share the costs of advertising, production and other noneditorial functions.

Seattle Paper Feud Heads to Court The two daily newspapers in Seattle, The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which have shared advertising, production and other noneditorial costs in a joint operating agreement since 1981, are asking a judge to decide their future.