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Sam Hopkins
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This is not exactly the same as the editors of a journal changing the publisher of a journal, but let me put in a plug for "flipping" a journal to Open Access. This is where the editors of a journal (which is presumably published by some for-profit publisher) all simultaneously quit in order to found a new open access journal with the same scope, same editorial team, and similar name to the old one.

Some recent examples I know of this happening in math -- and specifically, combinatorics -- are: