Examiner Managing Editor Zoran Basich is leaving the free paper for a job as an editor for Dow Jones and Co. in San Francisco. He has been managing editor since July 2006.

Senior Assistant Managing Editor Deirdre Hussey will be promoted to managing editor, according to an e-mail from Executive Editor James Pimentel. Hussey has been with The Examiner for five years and has been primarily responsible for driving the local news coverage, serving as city editor and senior assistant managing editor responsible for news. Previously she was at the The Village Voice in New York City and the Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa.