Brand new New Yorker hire Jonah Lehrer reused material from his old Wired and Wall Street Journal stories in his Frontal Cortex blog. One neurology-based defense of self-plagiarism coming up? What's always so confusing to us about this very common phenomenon is why other writers don't shudder in horror every time they encounter their old writing. [Jim Romenesko]

This weirdly sourced New York Times story is like a logic game: Three anonymous partygoers overheard Mayor Bloomberg talking presidential endorsement. One of them was a New York Times Reporter. Did that New York Times reporter write the article? [NY Times]

BuzzFeed hired Roll Call report John Stanton as D.C. Bureau chief. [Politico]

Alec Baldwin appears to have attacked Daily News photographer Marcus Santos. Which puts Post columnist Andrea Peyser in a real bind. She can't write about rival Daily News, but she can't not write about Alec Baldwin. [Daily News]

Joan Juliet Buck, author of the infamous Asma al-Assad Vogue profile, is no longer on the masthead. [WWD]

GQ, Kate Upton, popsicle, bikini, Terry Richardson, blah, blah, blah. [GQ]

Math is hard for The Daily and for us. [Nick Rizzo]

Mark Leibovitch goes from Times to Times Magazine/Styles. Upgrade. [Fishbowl NY]

Leave Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro, aka Potus Interruptus, alone. He's clearly a robot malfunctioning. [Washington Post]