THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2007
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"I've never said, 'I'm an executive, I just oversee what's going on," says
Susan Goldberg, who leaves the San Jose Mercury News to become Plain Dealer editor. "I am not a gentlewoman journalist. I am much more of a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of journalist. ... The more I can be involved in what's actually in the paper, the happier I am."
On calling journalists at home to give them layoff news: "In Dallas, when they did layoffs, everybody was at work, and they were at their desks, and somebody's phone would ring because it was the appointed hour. And everybody would scream and start to cry. And I thought, 'We are not going to do that at the Mercury News.'"
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