Fairfax Media Deputy Chairman Mark Burrows has been forced off the publisher's board by his fellow directors, The Age's Business Day has reported Friday.

The investment banker officially resigned Thursday over “perceived conflict of interest” due to being Lachlan Murdoch's chief adviser in his AU$3.3 billion bid to buy Consolidated Media Holdings, according to the report.

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Spanish media group Vocento SA announced monday its CEO Belarmino Garcia Fernandez has resigned.

The group announced in a statement that Jose Manuel Vargas Gomez, formerly Vocento's general manager for the national market, will replace Fernandez.

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After receiving a 21 percent raise, Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, was paid almost £1.5 million in 2007, making him the highest-paid editor on London's Fleet Street.

Dacre was paid £1.49 million for the year ending Sept. 30, 2007, according to the Daily Mail & General Trust's annual report, published Thursday. Most of Dacre's pay raise came from an increase in cash allowances, which reached £443,000 in 2007, more than double the £204,000 he received the previous year.

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Carole Leigh Hutton, former editor-in-chief of the San Jose Mercury News, ended her editorship Thursday after less than a year. She told Editor & Publisher Friday that she left the position on her own.

“I left and I am going to do something else,” she told Editor & Publisher Friday. “I think it is trying to figure out the right next step. My next step probably has nothing to do with the business.”

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