From today's Women's Wear Daily: "THE WAY TO PLAY THE PRESS: A journalist calls you on Monday, having heard that you re up for a top-level editorship. You deny having been called (a savvy media type never talks on the record about having been approached for a job). Maybe you re not even interested. But the same week, you go to lunch with the person who d ultimately greenlight your hire, preferably at a popular media hangout where everyone will see you.

So Slate editor Jacob Weisberg may be denying he was contacted about becoming editor of The New York Times Magazine, but he did, according to a source, break bread with New York Times executive editor Bill Keller this week at Esca, the Times haunt on 43rd Street."
[Ed.—Iiiiiinteresting. Time to start handicapping the candidates. Nominations?]

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