New DJ editor and other shuffling

David Houston, newly named editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, announced a few staffing changes in a morning memo: Alexia Garamfalvi will succeed Houston as editor in the legal journal's San Francisco office; a search is on to replace associate editor Alan Mittelstaedt, who resigned yesterday; and a few empty beats will be eliminated, including city politics and land use, but no layoffs are contemplated. Read the memo here.