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Times Hunts at Slate, Vibe for New Pop Music Critic (NYO)
"Being pop critic at the Times is a dream job — certainly it was mine," the former occupant of that position, Kelefa Sanneh, wrote in an email this week. But a little more than two weeks ago, Sanneh left his dream job for the other dream job: a reporting gig at The New Yorker. Since March 3, the word has been spreading in music circles that a new music-critic star was about to be made.

Dow Jones Will Stop Carrying AP News (Reuters)
Dow Jones & Co, recently bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is ending an agreement of more than 40 years to carry news from the Associated Press after the AP said it wanted more money. Instead, Dow Jones Newswires will run news from Agence France-Presse, a French news service. The AP and Dow Jones failed to agree on a price after more than a year of negotiations, AP chief revenue officer Tom Brettingen said.

Revolving Door Newsletter: 03.18.08 — Foreign Correspondents Find an Outlet (mediabistro.com)
The ongoing "unbundling" of newspapers online increasingly applies not only to their content, but also to how they get made. Just as the nonprofit ProPublica has volunteered to outsource the top-notch investigative work of American newspapers, Global News Enterprises more or less aims to do the same for international news.

Dubious Digits: Magazine Editors Explain Weird Cover Numerology (NYO)
Dave Zinczenko, the editor of Men's Health, and Cindi Leive, editor of Glamour, discussed their cover-number calculus at the bar at Michael's on Monday, March 17, during New York Post media columnist's Keith Kelly's annual St. Patrick's Day fund-raiser. "The smaller the number and the more specific, the better," Zinczenko said.

Did NYT Get Escort's Story Wrong? (Gawker)
The article about sex workers in the Sunday New York Times, "The Double Lives of High-Priced Call Girls," appeared calm and fair, and didn't identify the working women as victims. However, one of the women profiled, the artist/part time prostitute "Faith O'Donnell," was unhappy with how she was represented.

Media Misses Point of Clinton's Campaign Tactics (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has the national media right where she wants them: on the defensive. Again. Clinton has virtually redefined politics and media manipulation by using all kinds of strategies to keep reporters at bay. Whether her supporters want to accept it or not, Clinton has stayed alive by employing many of the divisive tactics of Karl Rove.

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