Pacifica Tribune’s new editor may be a reluctant recruit

The Pacifica Tribune has a new editor. The East Bay Express reports that the new editor may not consider this to be a plum assignment:

Yesterday, Oakland Tribune editor Mario Dianda assembled his reporters and announced that he was being stripped of his position as head of the newspaper, according to a source inside the newsroom. Today, ANG officials confirmed the news in a memo to staff, declaring that Dianda, who has run the Trib for nearly seven years, is being transferred to run the Pacifica Tribune, a dinky community weekly on the Peninsula.

Oakland Tribune staffers are concerned that they are becoming an appendage of the Contra Costa Times, which MediaNews acquired from Knight Ridder by way of McClatchy.