Meredith Ann White, formerly of ABC News, Newsweek and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is the new deputy managing editor for features at the San Francisco Chronicle. She will overee Datebook, Food, Books and the Chronicle Magazine. She starts in September. In its story this morning, the Chronicle notes that while White has lived on the East Coast since the 1980s, she attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. And, from 1978 to 1983, she served as managing editor at New West and then executive editor at California Magazine.