San Jose editor left after three-section paper proposal

An Editor & Publisher report states that before San Jose Mercury News Editor Carole Leigh Hutton resigned, she made push to turn the daily newspaper into a three-section paper.
According to the report, Hutton led a team of staffers in a presentation to MediaNews Group CEO William Deal Singleton on the new concept. Staffers speculate that may have been the final blow to Hutton's job.
One of several aspects of the paper's ongoing "Rethinking Project," the decreased sections idea was apparently greeted negatively by Singleton and David J. Butler, MediaNews vice president for news, during a presentation in mid-December.
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