Veteran media reporterDylan Stableford has been laid off from Folio magazine. Media reporting: it sucks.

Bloggy Dylan Stableford is leaving Mediabistro's Fishbowl NY after a year and a half. Sniff! He's going back to his old company in Connecticut to do all sorts of secret Folio web things. His replacements are former Gridskipper contributor Neal Ungerleider and Corsair blogger Ron Mwangaguhunga, who, at least according to his highly-regular Facebook status updates, has been really wanting the job for some time now! Well congrats, big guy! In other MB musical chairs, new TV Newser Chris Ariens got stuck with Dylan's other responsibility as managing editor of the entire site. It's worth noting that this is Mediabistro's fifth staff departure (that we know of!) since March. Does the boa have fleas? The full text of Dylan's farewell email follows. We'd like to see that uneven tan, please!

Now that 21-year-old Brian Stelter has gone off to become a thorn in Bill Carter's side at the New York Times, Mediabistro's looking for a new blogger to take his place on TVNewser. (Bonus: You get to work from "Soho, Baby, NY"!) What type of person are they looking for? Well, let's just say that if Mediabistro media blogger Dylan Stableford thinks he's getting someone from the Wall Street Journal to take the gig, then things at the WSJ must be worse than we thought.

Someone sent us this picture of what they describe as a "wild bird" outside the Conde Nast building this morning, which is apparently freaking people out as much or more than the homeless woman who was peeing in the lobby of 4 Times Square on Friday. The bird will be served in the cafeteria around noon. Anna Wintour's gonna put a napkin over her head and eat it ortolan-style. And now, the news.

The enormous scandale of media/actual whore Jessica Cutler's refusal to appear as scheduled at a Mediabistro panel next Monday made it to Page Six today. The mature professionals at Mediabistro, possibly upset at losing the only real blog-to-book success story on their panel (sorry, overhyped Julie/Julia) reacted to Cutler's cancellation by reminding the public that she is "someone known for exchanging sex for money," thus saving possible panel attendants the $20 they would have paid to learn "How Bloggers Get Book Deals."

In the wake of the controversy that his "Ed Bradley= Pimp" thing stirred up, Dylan Stableford confessed:

• Metro, the other free paper you avoid being handed as you walk into the subway, has fired EIC Mark Moore. [E&P]
• Let's all take a moment to reflect on poor Sumner Redstone, whose $1.75 million Viacom salary has been cut to $1M. Of course, he also got a $3M stock option grant, which eases the sting a little. [NYP]
• What unnamed douchebag told Tom Freston "Oh my gosh - you are so brave to be doing this party! So many people must be asking you about being fired! Don't worry, you'll be fine! Good luck!"? Our money's on Stableford. [NYP]

We do not know how soul-deadening it must be to work for a media company based in suburban Connecticut. Nor do we know how frustrating it must be to work for a trade pub covering a beat — magazines — that is comprehensively and aggressively covered by a phalanx of widely read daily reporters. But we can develop a strong hunch with today's news that Folio: senior editor Dylan Stableford has chosen to leave his Connecticut-based trade mag and instead join the huddled masses at Mediabistro. He'll be managing editor/media news for the job-listings service, in which capacity he'll be "covering all media as well as events and features — in addition to a ton of other stuff."