Vox published something worth reading today, but it was apparently unintentional and the post has since been deleted. So close!

In the writing world, there is a hierarchy. The writers are on the bottom. Above them are editors, who tell the writers what to change. This is backwards. How many good writers has Big Edit destroyed?

Like any ingenue to the magazine world, Pippa Middleton has glided up the rungs of the media ladder—straight from food columnist for a grocery store leaflet to Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair—in one easy step.

Russ Stanton is stepping down as editor of the LA Times, a job he's held for the past four years, through some of the shittiest layoff-plagued times in the history of the newspaper industry, and under the ownership of the thoroughly incompetent Tribune Co. He'll be replaced by Managing Editor Davan Maharaj. Perhaps the biggest story here is how small of a story this is, in 2012.

Today is Jill Abramson's first official day as the editor of The New York Times. Congratulations, Jill. We, the faceless Cheeto-eating bloggers of America, lovehate the New York Times as much as you do. Some unwanted advice, below.

Alert: straight men are editing magazines—in Manhattan! At least three of them. It's enough to make a media reporter lose his mind, contemplating the trend possibilities. Are magazines ready for "dudes?" Masculine dudes?

In a Today Show segment on vanity sizing, More editor Lesley Jane Seymour described the lengths fashion editors must go to protect the fragile egos of celebrities: "When we go to shoots it's all about the ego. If a celebrity says she's a size 8 and we know she's not we cut the sizes out because we know she won't put it on if it says it's a 10."

Journalism legend Charles Pierce makes a great god damn point in a new interview: the idea that a good writer will automatically make a good editor is a farce. The journalism job ladder is broken. What is to be done?

Last year, we caught Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko reusing covers. Turns out that's not the only way Zinczenko recycles content: He's been ripping other writers' bylines off old Men's Health articles and passing them off as his own.

John Koblin reports this morning that after months of searching, the New York Times Magazine has finally picked a new editor to succeed Gerald Marzorati. [Update: NYT staff memo below].

The New York Times Magazine has been looking for a new editor for months now. So has Newsweek. Tina Brown's been (unsuccessfully) batting down rumors about her own career's future. An update, please!

The New York Times today pounds out a love letter to New Yorker editor David Remnick—a fairly regular occurrence. To summarize: David Remnick is a journalist with no flaws. Really? Well. As close as you'll find at Conde Nast.

Oops! A partially edited version of Danielle Cohen and Jonathan Segal's wedding announcement made it onto the internet today, full of {cq}'s and desperation over how to describe a housewife.

Janice Min, the former Us Weekly editor-in-chief who resigned last summer and may now be planning to launch a "celebrity mom-based website" for media mogul Barry Diller, is looking for a buyer for her Soho loft.

Former Star editor Bonnie Fuller left the celeb magazine world to start a wondrous vapid celeb website. Now, WWD says former Us Weekly editor Janice Min is working on a website of her own. Can she avoid post-magazine online doom?

If you wrote a piece for the Huffington Post entitled Do You Really Need an Editor at a Publishing House?, you'd make a strong case, right? The answer, as evidenced by Knopf editor Carole Baron, is a resounding absolutely.

Self magazine editor Lucy Danziger should be awarded some sort of prize—the Nobel people should establish a new category, if necessary—because she chooses to ride a bicycle to work.

The Atlantic's James Bennet is Ad Age's "Editor of the Year." A good pick—The Atlantic is as robust and thoughtful online as it is in print. Although "You (Unpaid)" would have been the zeitgeisty choice. [Ad Age. Pic: Flickr]

Buck up, underemployed aspiring media employees who are not celebuspawn: We've found you yet another opportunity for indentured servitude masquerading as a "media job." How'd you like to be a real live Editor in Chief, eh?

Us Weekly editor Janice Min is reportedly considering quitting her job when her contract's up in two weeks. And why not? She's made her millions, and millions. But! The post-magazine life of a celebrity editor is fraught with danger.