Carole Leigh out in San Jose

slappy4428 · Jan 7, 2008

DanOregon said:

Back in the day an editor boasted about his new directive demanding three briefs and a story a day out of his business staff with the line "the lash across the back works wonders." Of course this guy was such a tool he sent it out to "all" instead of just the top editors.
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How big was his bonus?

Left_Coast · Jan 7, 2008

It's Singleton. It didn't take him long to destroy many Southern California papers. It didn't take him long to destroy Northern California papers.

The Commish · Jan 8, 2008

Editor and Publisher is reporting that before Hutton left, she floated a proposal to downsize the paper to three sections:

[Deputy Managing Editor Matt] Mansfield said the specific changes would have taken the current four-to-five section design and set a standard three-section paper with all news in the first section, business and technology in the second section, and sports and entertainment in the third. "It would have been a little bit of a cutback in pages, but it was just the sections that they looked at changing," he recalled.
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Here is the full article.

Ace · Jan 8, 2008

The Commish said:

Editor and Publisher is reporting that before Hutton left, she floated a proposal to downsize the paper to three sections:

[Deputy Managing Editor Matt] Mansfield said the specific changes would have taken the current four-to-five section design and set a standard three-section paper with all news in the first section, business and technology in the second section, and sports and entertainment in the third. "It would have been a little bit of a cutback in pages, but it was just the sections that they looked at changing," he recalled.
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Here is the full article.
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That plan must not have saved a ton of money or she would have been promoted.

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