More on the Sunday Source

Post execs sent around a kind little note today explaining the shake-up in the Sunday Source section. Reading between the lines it confirms what we said yesterday (mainly that incoming editor Debra Leithauser is great, just great, at managing people), and offers the added detail that outgoing (i.e. ousted) editor Sandy Fernandez is moving to Style to take on a nebulous “mix of editing and writing assignments.”

All this seems like a lot of drama for a section that’s little more than an advice column and glitzy photos of food and pretty things.

Full note from the Post after the jump.

The memo:

After two years as the founding editor of Sunday Source, Sandy Fernandez is moving to Style to take on a mix of editing and writing assignments. Sandy arrived at The Post in 2003 with a mission implausible: hire a staff from scratch, launch a section unique in American newspapers, build an audience especially among readers whose connection to newspapers was weak or fraying. And do it tomorrow. Sandy has been the creative engine behind Sunday Source’s success; her imagination and energy have brightened every page in the section and the Sunday paper as a whole. On Style, Sandy will be an acting assignment editor and pursue various writing interests in the section.

We are lucky to have an ideal successor to Sandy in Debra Leithauser. This marks a return to the section for Deb, who came to The Post from Knight Ridder/Tribune as deputy editor of Sunday Source. During the last year she has started a transformation of TV Week, where her managerial and editing skills have won admirers on her staff and beyond (fainter hearts seize at the words “zoning the grid”) — readers too have noticed. Deb has an accomplished background as a feature editor at the Orlando Sentinel, where she was assistant editor and acting art director of the Sunday magazine. We’re eager to see Deb and the team at Sunday Source explore the potential of this innovative, fun and popular part of the Sunday Post.

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