After nine years at the tabloid, Daily News assistant news editor Carrie Melago is hopping to the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York Section. (Making her a competitor of husband Jonathan Lemire, a News political reporter!)
Two more Journal hires:
- Meenal Mistry is the Wall Street Journal‘s new fashion director; her predecessor Alexa Brazillian is becoming an editor-at-large. [WWD]
- James Grimaldi is joining its investigative team. He took a Washington Post buyout and sent his colleagues this weird poem. [Fishbowl DC]
If you don’t read Marie Claire every month, we recommend checking out its recent three-part series: essays on love and race, love and money, and love and the single girl. It features lots of your favorite lady-journos—Sadie Stein, Anna Holmes, Starlee Kine, and Rebecca Traister, to name a few. This one by Susan Gregory Thomas is particularly insane (in a good way). (They didn’t pay us to write this.) [Marie Claire]
NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Shupak recalls the first time her boyfriend, Times reporter Brian Stelter, joined her in spin class: “It was like the first time I put my old dog in the pool.” [Complex]
Former Daily News editor in chief Michael O’Neill died at age 89. [Washington Post]
Replace Arthur Brisbane with a woman! [Poynter]
On Piers Morgan, Matt Lauer took the blame for TODAY’s ratings problems, which is what you have to do when they pay you $25 million a year. But also he denies that particular figure. [Huffington Post]
Who’ll Die Next? asks worst tabloid ever. [Jezebel]
Reuters reporter Glenn Somerville is leaving company over its new “Performance Improvement Plan,” which have left others shaking in their boots. [Romenesko]
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