The editor of the Los Angeles Times said he does not want to make any more job cuts in his newsroom, defying the newspaper’s corporate parent, which has asked for a budget-trimming plan, the Associated Press reports.

Dean Baquet, who was named the paper’s editor last year, said in Thursday’s edition of the Times that he is not averse to making cuts, “but you can go too far, and I don’t plan to do that.”

Baquet’s move comes in the wake of a two-page letter of protest that was e-mailed to Chicago-based Tribune Co. earlier this week by a group of 20 civic leaders based in Los Angeles. The group expressed concern that further staff reductions could erode the quality of journalism at the newspaper, and asked Tribune to either put more money into the newspaper or sell it.

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The group called itself the Civic Alliance and includes former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher.