BlackBook-ing It Out. BlackBook Magazine scored a new editor in chief in January, in the form of Gawker alumnus and former Departures editor Joshua David Stein. Seven months later, they're looking for a new editor-in-chief. Stein, who will stay with the magazine through the October/November issue, and remain as a consultant through the end of the year, explained over email:

The magazine has never looked as good as it does now and advertising revenue reflects that. Nevertheless, I've decided to return to freelance writing and editorial consulting. I am, at heart, not a beast of the office but of the field. I am, of course, looking to find my own replacement, which is one of the blessings in choosing one's own departure. As I said, I'm very proud of the product and the work the team here has done. And though it is bad news for the industry, there are a lot of really talented people these days freshly looking for work.

LGBT Goes OMG! and LOL: Speaking of hiring, those scallywags at Jonah Peretti's Rikers Island for Troubled Young Memes and the People Who Invent Them—Buzzfeed—are opening up an LGBT vertical that has "yet to be launch [sic]" according to the job listing for an associate editor on it. This will be interesting. We hear the position—which is in fact editor of the vertical—will report to Buzzfeed managing editor Scott Lamb; they're looking for someone to add a cultural component to nicely compliment Buzzfeed politics reporter Chris Geidner's LGBT issues coverage (which he's won awards for, we were informed!).

Yahoo! For Good Plans. In her approach as editor-in-chief, Hillary Frey is taking a familiar-sounding (in a good way!) editorial structure in building out Yahoo! News:

I like a beat structure and working in that kind of environment. I think it gives reporters a clear idea of who to go to, who to lean on for advice, for direction and editing input. All of that creates a really important tie between the editor and the reporter. The beat structure at Yahoo is clear, but as we look to developing more content in different areas, we’ll be growing the organization here and there. We’ll be going along with that sort of structure having people really clearly report to specific people.

Read more in Poynter's interview with her. [Poynter]

Cosmo-naut: We once tried writing about the fact that Deadwood was the spiritual predecessor to Girls in that Girls is a show that seeks to separate itself from the popular wisdom and values of contemporary womanhood as perpetrated on the world by Cosmopolitan Magazine, which is owned by descendants of George Hearst, who (spoiler alert) ruins everything in the last season of Deadwood. Anyway: Edith Zimmerman of The Hairpin did a deep-dive on Cosmo for this week's New York Times Magazine that is no doubt worth reading. We will know once we finish it. [NYT Mag]

Jonah's Whale-Sized Problem Grows: Tablet contributor Michael C. Moynihan, the guy who busted Jonah Lehrer for fudging quotes, has a little more to say on the matter in response to critiques of his report:

A comment on Jonah Lehrer: I've received a few emails and seen a number of pieces/blog posts that ask, in essence, "what's the big deal"? It's just a few quotes, after all. As I mentioned, I only looked at the Dylan chapter in Imagine, and nothing else. I've since had a cursory look at a few other chapters (including in his previous book, How We Decide), no more than a few hours of checking and a few emails too people mentioned by Lehrer--and I found fake interviews, quotes that can't be located, and plagiarism. So while one can reasonably debate how serious a crime it is to fudge a handful of Dylan quotes (pretty serious, if you ask me), always remember: no one ever does this kind of thing once, or just in one chapter.

We recently wondered aloud if that was, indeed the case. Maybe so? [@mcmonyihan]

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“I’m not a billionaire,” Mr. Stein told Off the Record last week. “This job’s not going to make me a billionaire. Or a millionaire for that matter!”

Mr. Stein’s new boss at the arts and culture starter magazine, on the other hand, is definitely a billionaire. Last month, BlackBook Media Corp. was bought by grocery magnate Ron Burkle and his investment partner, Magic Johnson. Mr. Stein didn’t have much to say about the acquisition, except that it means more money and better resources for the magazine, side-by-side with Mr. Burkle’s current holdings, Vibe, Uptown and the reportedly lucrative Access Network media software company.

“I think the content is some of the best content out there,” Mr. Stein said of BlackBook. “I think we can present it in a more creative, sophisticated kind of way.”

“If you look at the front-of-book there’s a lot of capsule reviews. That’s not my style,” he went on. “There’s not gonna be capsule reviews. There will be a meaty, interesting, compelling front-of-book. I’ll also say I think we have a wonderful team in place, but obviously I’m looking to add people there.”

And aspiring BlackBook writers take note: Mr. Stein has a Zen boss attitude befitting a survivor of Gawker’s self-destructive heyday.

“I’m interested in being fair, kind and just to the readers and to the staff,” he said.

As for Mr. Stein’s own arts and culture bona fides, it’s hard to beat this: He has an album coming out next month of songs he’s been working on since he was an intern at Harper’s, eight years ago.

“When I was an intern at Harper’s, Lewis Lapham was there and he was great. He peed without touching his penis,” Mr. Stein explained. “I had never seen anything like that. So I wrote a song about him.”

Sample lyric: “Lewis chain smokes Parliaments/He called me ‘babe’ once/I don’t know what he meant/I feel like I gained a new grandparent.”

Since then, Mr. Stein has written many more songs, including a number of songs about women he’s dated, as well his wife, Ana Heeren, with whom he recently had a son, Achilles. As a 30th birthday gift, Mr. Stein’s friend Kyle Forester, the Crystal Stilts musician, recorded 15 of Mr. Stein’s original songs with a full band. In March, they’re releasing the album, called “KCF sings JDS,” in a limited run of 500.

“I asked Lewis to write the liner notes but I haven’t heard back from him,” Mr. Stein said.

Leave it to the Post to title the piece “Byrdie of Paradise,” whose pictures of the 22-year-old are attended by—what else?—exotic birds. But beside the photos, readers learn not only that Ms. Bell understands that affection is often expressed with puke, but in the lyrical styling of her musical-social boyfriend, James “Bingo” Gubelmann, too: “Bella was bored to death at South Beach/Not one celebrity spotted in days/She was tired of her mood/Lunchin’ on vegan food.” The article even goes so far as to compare the “youngest in an almost Biblical line of society jewels” to Brooke Astor, Mona von Bismarck and Lauren Hutton.

But for all her apparent Upper-East-Side-ness (she inhabits a two-bedroom co-op in the tony ‘hood), Ms. Bell has some serious downtown gal in her as well. Not only was she once a Goth, Astor-Place-Kmart vidster before coming out at the Infirmary Ball in 2003, she now wants to move south of 14^th Street. Ms. Bell also plays Nintendo and watches French porn, which is pretty hot in an anti-Tinsley kind of way. (Video games and flesh flicks for francophiles aside, she claims to “appreciate and understand what [Ms. Mortimer] does.")

In the end, though, Ms. Bell wants to strut her stuff in films. She’s even scored extra parts in the forthcoming Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light and in the Sex and the City movie. Of being a cinematic background filler, the socialite says, “Now when I watch movies, I notice the extras. It’s really interesting to see people who are pretending they’re not focusing on what they’re doing but are trying really hard.” Oh, how apropos.

On Monday, Dec. 3, nightlife editor Josh Stein told The Media Mob, he'll do the same.

"The reasons I'm quitting are kind of personal," he told Media Mob on Sunday night. "It has nothing to do with the job. I'm actually really happy with the job."

He said he told Noah Robischon, who is the managing editor of several sites including Gawker that are part of the Gawker Media Group, on Friday that he planned to quit at the end of the month. He said he hasn't spoken to Gawker media founder and owner Nick Denton about it.

When asked if the Sicha-Gould announcement had anything to do with his timing, he said "Yeah, certainly."

"I really, really enjoy working with Choire," he said. "He taught me a lot, and Emily as well. They taught me a lot about blogging, which I wasn't very good at when I started."

He'll be spending the month of January in London with a "lady" he said he would "make a go of it" with. When he returns, he said he'll hope to pick up a career in freelancing. He said he's currently working on pieces for Page Six Magazine and Out, and that he has "some major" work in the pipeline that he couldn't discuss.

Maggie Shnayerson, who started on Sept. 24, is now the longest-serving editor at Gawker. She'll be working with Alex Pareene and reporter Sheila McClear.