Comings and goings at the SF Chronicle?

Phil Bronstein's moving on and rumors are flying at the Chron who will replace him. The rumors around the Chron newsroom say the replacement is a woman and Bronstein put a little more oomph in it by saying his successor had "deep roots in the Bay Area." Two names being bandied about are Carole Leigh Hutton, who just got dropped by the free-falling San Jose Mercury News, and Susan Goldberg, who left that same Mercury News for greener pastures at the Cleveland Plain Dealer last year.
Of those two, our money's on Hutton, who came into the Bay Area in early 2007 from Detroit as publisher of the Palo Alto-based Daily News Group and vice president of California Newspapers Partnership (CNP), the company controlled by Dean Singleton's MediaNews, moved on to the Mercury News in May, then quit the Merc earlier this month. Not exactly "deep" Bay Area roots, though.
These days, though, you take newspaper executives where you can find 'em, so who knows who might be the one.