A.G. Sulzberger, son of Arthur Sulzberger, has a new home at the Metro section of the paper. According to a memo obtained by Gawker, Sulzberger will join the desk early next month.

Sam Sifton naturally had nothing but good things to say about  Sulzberger’s time at the National desk:

Arthur proved that opening a news bureau in Kansas City, Missouri, was not merely a good idea but a great one. He reveled in quirky, revealing stories (like an accounting of the last shop to process Kodachrome, or a profile of a man who, at 103, was the oldest still-serving federal judge in the country). But when big news came along, again and again he showed that there was no steadier hand on the desk.

Ethan Bronner has been replaced by Jodi Rudoren as the New York Times’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief. Politico reports that Bronner will become a Legal Affairs Reporter for the paper’s national desk. Bronner had been Jerusalem Bureau Chief since 2008. Rudoren most recently worked as Education Editor for the Times.

An internal memo from Foreign Editor Joe Kahn and National Editor Sam Sifton that was obtained by Politico lavished praise on Bronner and Rudoren.

Rudoren begins her new position in April.

Let it be known that Sam Sifton, the New York Times’ National Editor, is a Big Pun fan. Today marks the 12th anniversary of the rapper’s death, and so Sifton tweeted “A dozen years years! RIP Big Pun. “I ain’t a player I just crush a lot,” along with a link to the video.

We’re happy that Sifton has an appreciation for the hip-hop legend, but he didn’t do his research. The song he linked isn’t the popular “Still Not a Player,” it’s actually the much better, yet not as radio friendly “I’m Not a Player.” The latter was Pun’s first single, the former — which featured Joe — was a remix of “I’m Not a Player.”

Of course this could be Vevo’s fault, because it mislabeled the video as “Still Not a Player.” Or maybe Sifton is a bigger fan than we thought, and meant to link Pun’s “I’m Not a Player” because it’s clearly superior. If that’s the case, then we need to start hanging out with him.

Sam Sifton is now the New York Times’ National Editor, but before he moved on from his post as Restaurant Critic, he took the time to pen his top 10 new restaurants list. Some exquisite establishments made the cut, and Sifton even included two places outside of Manhattan.

He said that the year was composed of “smart-casual cooking, the sort of food that takes a lot of work to prepare but is often served by people in untucked shirts and flash sneakers.” We’re 84 percent sure that “flash sneakers” means LA Gear.

Sifton’s restaurant of the year? The Dutch, in SoHo. He describes it as a place “filled with New Yorkers pleased to be New Yorkers, eating in a New York restaurant.” We’re sold!

For the complete list, click here.

Sam Sifton, the New York Times’ new National Editor, understands that he has a lot to learn. He tells Adweek today that the move from restaurant critic fills him “with a pleasant terror about the unknown,” which is an interesting way to describe the situation. He also says that he still has reviews to get to, in case you were feeling sad about him leaving his post. Some other thoughts from Sifton:

On anxiety:
“I would be crazy to say that I know exactly what I’m doing, and exactly what I’m going to do. I don’t. I’m filled with a pleasant terror about the unknown, about what’s going to happen — a pleasant terror that, I think, is similar to the one reporters and editors and journalists feel every day about what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

On his place within the Times:
“It’s Jill’s newspaper, and [managing editor] Dean [Baquet's] newspaper, and I’m here to do their bidding.”

On who will be his replacement:
“That’s not my job.”

Sam Sifton is now officially the New York Times’ National Editor. Earlier this week Jill Abramson brushed off the rumor, telling WWD, “I’ll pass on that one,” but Brian Stelter just tweeted, “It’s official: dining critic and Twitter star @SamSifton is the NYT’s new national editor.”

Sifton has only been the Times’ Restaurant Critic for two years and doesn’t have much experience with news coverage, but of course he’s going to be excited about the chance to give it a shot. Sifton tweeted the news by stating, “I’m stepping down as restaurant critic to be the national editor of The Times. #checkplease.”

There is currently no word on who will replace Sifton.

UPDATE:
The Abramson memo can be seen here.

Don’t plan to get paid for your sick days: New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger sent a company-wide memo today yesterday announcing the closing of the cafeteria for an outbreak of “gastrointestinal symptoms” that may or may not be due to the food being served at the newspaper headquarters. The memo reassured readers that “affected employees are on the mend” and that the NYT was working closely with the health department on this issue.

Unfortunately this prohibits at least one person from doing their job, as the Times‘ Diner’s Journal blog was quick to speculate: “Could this possibly explain why The Times‘s restaurant critic, Sam Sifton, grabbed his coat and left in such a hurry a few minutes after the memo hit his inbox?”

Read More: Gastrointestinal Outbreak at the Times! — Daily Intel

All the Food That’s Fit… –New York Times

This year — full of flux and uncertainty about where the media is heading — has resulted in a vast number of job changes and departures across all matter of media companies and publications. In almost every field of journalism, big names have either been fired, promoted, retired, or simply moved on to more lucrative positions. Here, we take a look back at the biggest industry shakeups of 2009.

The Biggest Move in Magazines: Stephen Adler leaving BusinessWeek.
When editor Stephen Adler announced his departure from BusinessWeek this October following the magazine’s sale to Bloomberg LP, he wasn’t just making a statement, he was starting a trend. Soon he was followed by some of his former colleagues, like John Byrne and BusinessWeek‘s president Keith Fox, who decided to stay with magazine’s original parent, McGraw-Hill. (Not to mention all of those who involuntarily left the pub not long after.) It takes a lot of chutzpah to up and quit your editor gig in the middle of this turbulent media landscape, it takes even more to get your coworkers to come with you. Fortunately for Adler, he’s already landed another gig at Thomson Reuters.

Runners Up: Time.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel comes on board as editor at Businessweek; Marie Claire‘s publisher Susan Plagemann joins Vogue; Nancy Berger Cardone of shuttered Gourmet takes Plagemann’s spot at Marie Claire; Janice Min leaves Us Weekly; Mariette DiChristina becomes Scientific American‘s first female editor-in-chief.

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After serving as culture editor for The New York Times, new restaurant critic Sam Sifton may have to give up the convention of remaining anonymous to those in the back of the house. He’s already been spotted by celebrity chef Daniel Boulud.

As Page Six reports today:

“Daniel Boulud was cooking at the Epicurious.com Entertains NYC event last week when he got word that the incoming Times food critic had popped into his flagship Restaurant Daniel. ‘Boulud thanked everyone and bolted back to the restaurant before serving dessert,’ a source says. ‘He didn’t want Sifton to see his place running without him there.’ The source said of Sifton, ‘The problem is that all the chefs recognize him. Daniel didn’t say hi, but he knew he was there.’”

Sounds like Sifton should invest in a good wig or one of those glasses with the nose on them.

Earlier: Sam Sifton Picked To Fill Bruni’s Restaurant Critic Post

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has announced two new changes atop the editorial staff at the paper, starting with the announcement yesterday that Deputy News Editor Phil Corbett will be taking on the role of associate managing editor for standards next month after Craig Whitney retires.

“In that role, Phil will become the newsroom’s voice for all standards and ethics questions relating to content and news coverage, both in the printed newspaper and on the Web,” Keller said in a memo to staff. “This includes responsibility — along with Greg Brock — for dealing with corrections and editors’ notes, as well as questions from the Public Editor. He will also be the teller’s window for vetting conflict of interest and other policy rules outlined in the handbook on Ethical Journalism.”

Then today, Keller announced to the Times staff that Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman (right) would be taking over the culture editor role vacated by Sam Sifton last month when he was picked to take up Frank Bruni‘s restaurant critic beat.

Keller called Landman’s selection a “no-brainer,” and noted that as he steps away from his role overseeing the Times‘s digital newsroom, the paper’s other leaders (including Keller himself) will have to focus more heavily on the Web:

“In proposing this change, Jon made a strong case that, in the next stage of integration, the support and promotion of this new kind of journalism must become more fully the responsibility of the newsroom’s top leadership — me, [managing editor Jill Abramson] and [managing editor John Geddes]. He reminded me that in the original proposal for an integrated newsroom — May, 2005 — I insisted that it is not enough to create new advocates for Web journalism within the NYT newsroom; the newsroom would be truly integrated only when the top editors took as much responsibility for our digital journalism as they do for the more traditional kind. We’ve stopped a little short of that ambition, in large part because we had Jon to defer to and depend on. We’ll have more to say on this important subject, but the main thing to say now is that Jill and I, in particular, see this as time to rearrange our priorities and devote more of our bandwidth to digital journalism.”

Said Landman in an announcement about his move today:

“It’s time for the newsroom to take the next step toward full integration, to put management of Web journalism and print in the same hands. That’s how we’ll be able to do the ambitious work we want to do.”

Read more of Keller’s memos about both Corbett and Landman here.

After the jump, the press release from the Times today announcing Landman’s appointment.

(Photo courtesy of The New York Times)

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