After a week of upheaval at the conservative daily, the paper has announced the resignation of John Solomon as executive editor, effective last Friday.

The announcement came in a terse one-sentence email from the paper’s outside PR firm: “Effective November 6, 2009, John Solomon has resigned his position as the Executive Editor of The Washington Times.”

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