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'Mercury News' To Axe Up to 101, Including 15% of NewsroomOutstanding to see senior management paying for their own bad judgment instead of innocent lower level workers exclusively getting sacrificed.
...Publisher John Armstrong said Friday that Editor Chris Lopez was leaving the paper, but no other layoffs were planned.
Armstrong said in a statement to staff that Lopez's position had become "redundant" as the company consolidated its Bay Area news operations.
"Given the serious revenue pressures all newspapers are facing ... we cannot afford any redundancy, especially at the senior management level," he said.