Mercury News cuts 50 people, changes two editors
San Francisco Business Times
The San Jose Mercury News cut 50 people from its staff to save money and replaced two section editors.
The newspaper eliminated 16 of the jobs through buyouts, but laid off 15 newsroom employees and 19 from the rest of the paper. Five newsroom employees took buyouts.
The Mercury News also replaced editorial page editor Stephen Wright with Barbara Marshman, an associate editor who has been with the paper since 1988.
Rebecca Salner, the business editor, was replaced by Stephen Trousdale, who started work at the Mercury News in 2006, coming from the Contra Costa Times.
Other local newspapers owned by Mercury News parent MediaNews also cut jobs this week. The Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times cut 107 people, or 10 percent of their combined staff, through buyouts. They didn't lay anyone off.
MediaNews is based in Denver.
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