Romenesko

Society for News Design
Matt Mansfield, who is taking the San Jose Mercury News' buyout, says: "Leaving here will be a heartbreaking end to an amazing ride and, yet, the time feels right to exit. The buyout seemed an appropriate moment to hit the reset button." Mansfield (left), a deputy managing editor who was hired as the Merc's news design director in 2000, adds: "I must admit to being more than a little sad right now, but I think that's just because I'm nostalgic for a time that was, ultimately, unsustainable. That's the difficult truth for many of us in newspapers right now."