Complex sentence: Saltas hired his first editor, then-KSL-TV journalist Tom Walsh, a veteran writer with experience from the alternative "Phoenix New Times", who took a significant salary cut because of his enthusiasm for the new paper.
Split into simpler sentences: Saltas hired his first editor, then-KSL-TV journalist Tom Walsh. Walsh was a veteran writer with experience from the alternative "Phoenix New Times", and he took a significant salary cut because of his enthusiasm for the new paper.