While city editor at the Herald , he oversaw the reporting team that wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on Miami's tainted '97 mayoral race. In Miami, Satterfield held a number of editing and reporting positions, including executive business editor, deputy business editor and business writer. I would love to see a little more of a company focus here, a little more of the stories behind the stories. Not just earnings announcements but more stories about the people who are behind these companies. Part of my focus is that we'll do a little more personal finance.
Real estate is a huge story out here.
But everything is technology related. The following two years saw the Merc News rebuilding and refocusing its business section and tech coverage amid bidding wars for top journalists with the invasion into the Valley of local bureaus and offices of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, the New York Post and The Boston Globe . We want to do even more. We want to do the smarter kinds of stories that you might not likely see from a regional daily newspaper. Satterfield has confidence in the Valley's biggest staff, even in the face of major league competition for news.