We all knew Harvey Levin's TMZ pays people to leak information to them, as recently fired L.A. County Superior Court spokesman has been accused of doing. But their real secret? Just plant a staffer on the courthouse payroll. [Update below]
Paul Barrett, Assistant Managing Editor for investigative projects at BusinessWeek, will be "returning to The Wall Street Journal to write on non-business topics for the front page," according an email from Businessweek EIC Stephen Adler. A former WSJ editor himself Adler brought Barrett to the magazine in 2006.…
From the (catty!) mailbag: "Fox Business Channel just hired Liz MacDonald, who was a highly respected journo for the Wall Street Journal and then Forbes mag. For past several years she's spent most of her time climbing over people in an effort to get in front of the camera." Meouch! Hey, she's sort of got that Tina…
Will no one step forward to edit Wenner Media's Men's Journal? The gig pays $300,000, but, of course, it also includes dealing with Jann Wenner. "The problem with the job," a source tells Keith Kelly, "is that you are taking it for the severance package." [NYP]
"MSNBC said today that [general manager] Dan Abrams, who has been the host of a 9 p.m. news hour called 'Live with Dan Abrams' temporarily since July, will stay in the job permanently, leaving behind the managerial position he had occupied for a little over a year." With MSNBC's ratings nipping at CNN's heels, this…
We hear that Alyssa Shelasky, former Glamour blogger, has a new job! She's over at People magazine now.... writing about FILM. Heh. Seriously, she has got to be sooooo overqualified for that after all that time she spent blogging about her love life!
Former Vibe editor Mimi Valdes will replace Betty Cortina as editor-in-chief of Latina magazine. [Daily Intel]
Portfolio managing editor Blaise Zerega takes the deputy editor slip vacated by the firing of Jim Impoco. Zeraga will work out of San Francisco, leading a source to tell the Post's Keith Kelly, "He's being called deputy but it doesn't look like he will have any serious management responsibilities. Have you ever heard…
More staff turnover at Portofolio: senior associate editor Jeffrey Chu bails for Fast Company. On the plus side, hey, Jeff Bercovici and, uh, Lloyd Grove are on the scene! [NYP]
