James O’Shea will step down as editor of the Los Angeles Times, making him the third editor to leave the newspaper since 2005.

According to an article in the Times, O’Shea opposed plans by Publisher David Hiller to make budget and job cuts. The paper plans to release a formal announcement of O’Shea’s departure this week.

O’Shea has held the editor’s chair since November 2006, when he replaced Dean Baquet, who resigned in a similar dispute over newsroom job cuts. Baquet took over from John Carroll, who retired in 2005.

The Times has lost about 20 percent of its circulation in the last eight years, and its newsroom payroll has dropped 25 percent, according to the paper.