Carole Leigh out in San Jose

I really doubt she had that type of autonomy at the Merc. Most of the papers of that chain are fairly the same. Perhaps she thought she had autonomy to push her own vision and that was the problem.

 

She only was there since May.
Another paper that has sunk since Lean Dean got his hands on it.

 

Don't let the golden parachute tangle on the way out the door!

 

Boo fuckin' hoo.

 

David Butler brings with him such great insight, such as Lean Dean's consolidation of desks.

“Clearly, it allows you to operate more efficiently because you’re editing common stories and pages once,” says Dave Butler, MediaNews’ vice president for news.

The clusters have been producing common Monday pages wrapping up National Football League games for nine papers. The northern California papers are watching to see how well that works before deciding whether to do the same, Butler says.

Consolidating copy desks and content has advantages and potential pitfalls, he notes. While it saves time for one editor to put one headline on a story rather than several editors at different papers putting 10 headlines on the same story, copy editors must be familiar with the local community for the model to work, he says.

“If a copy editor doesn’t know the local community, the potential to look stupid—putting Broadway Avenue rather than Broadway Street—is presumably higher,” Butler adds, noting there is no current plan to consolidate all of MediaNews’ copy editing on one national desk.


Yeah, no CURRENT plan. Yet.

 

CLH now says her next job won't be in newspapers.

No kidding.

"You want fries with that?"

 

PR for The Dwarf?

 

Subtle shoe lifts for the Sly Stallones of the world.

 

I dunno. The Podunk Press has an editor opening.

 

Maybe she could try for an interview with Hungry Horse. Either that or slappy's suggestion of PR for Albom ... she seems to enjoy that.

 

What he said.

 

slap --
Wasn't she the one who killed the freelancer's unfavorable review of Mitch's novel?