Cleveland Plain Dealer names woman editor

CLEVELAND, May 15 (UPI) -- The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's major daily newspaper, has named a woman as its editor for the first time, the newspaper said Tuesday.

Susan Goldberg, 49, the executive editor of The (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News, succeeds Douglas Clifton, 63, who retired Tuesday after eight years at the Cleveland newspaper's helm.

Goldberg, who has been in journalism for more than 25 years, said she looked forward to "taking a really excellent newspaper and making it even better."

Her first edition is May 29.

Although she grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., and graduated from Michigan State University, she said she took the job "not because it's Cleveland or the Midwest, but because it's The Plain Dealer."

The Plain Dealer is among a handful of big city newspapers posting an increase in daily circulation. Weekday circulation averaged 344,704, a half-percent increase from a year ago, the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show. Sunday circulation showed a slight drop to 442,482.

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