Editor & Publisher
Just a few weeks before former San Jose Mercury News editor
Carole Leigh Hutton resigned, she led a team in a presentation to MediaNews Group CEO
William Dean Singleton to turn the daily into a three-section paper, reports
Joe Strupp. (The Merc now has up to five sections.) Some say the timing of Hutton's ouster, just weeks after the presentation, raises suspicions. "I think that presentation was the excuse to say to Carole Leigh that they wanted to make a change [in newsroom leadership]," says a staffer.
