A memo just out from Bill Keller this afternoon announces that Gerry Marzorati, the editor of The New York Times Magazine since Adam Moss decamped for New York, will get a promotion to assistant managing editor and, with it, a spot on the paper's masthead. It seems as though he'll still be doing his same old job — producing the magazine each week, overseeing the various monthly and quarterly and biannual supplementary magazines. But with the great new title, it seems, comes great responsibility. "We want him to help identify and develop the next generation of editors for the magazines and magazine-like sections of the paper, particularly from within the paper," Keller writes. "We want him to be a bridge between the magazine and the newspaper on big enterprise, lending a hand (or the hands of his editing staff) to Glenn where appropriate on long narrative enterprise that can use a magazine touch, and making the magazine's pages more available as a showcase for projects that originate in the newsroom. We want him to work with the Web on developing a unique Times Magazine presence on our website, including an Internet luxury magazine."

We've been distracted away from monitoring Debbie Gibson's every waking moment — yes, she's still alive — long enough to get our hands on the first staff memo from newly appointed Atlantic editor James Bennet. It's not the best of news. William Langewiesche, the veteran national correspondent who reported and wrote the magazine's remarkable three-part series four years ago on the "unbuilding" of the World Trade Center, is leaving for Vanity Fair. We were all set to make a joke about how much we're looking forward to his in-depth pieces on tea parties thrown by Princess Michael of Kent, but then we got to the second paragraph of Bennet's memo. It seems Cullen Murphy, the managing editor who ably ran The Atlantic from Michael Kelly's death in April 2003 until his magazine was moved out from under him to Washington last year, will also be joining VF. He'll be a part-time editor.

Here's a Craigslist ad we noticed Monday night:

We were going to be vaguely insulted to be included on Fast Company's list of jobs that won't exist in 10 years. And we were considering challenging the mag's assertion. But then we realized we'd have no leg to stand on: If anyone would know what jobs won't exist down the road, it's the people toiling at an erstwhile "New Economy" title.

One freelancer was troubled by Monday's anointment of Conde Nast as the company that treated her sort best in 2005. "Was this posted as a joke," she asked. Flummoxed freelancer then forwarded this tale:

Back in September, as you may or may not recall, the Observer reported that Lowdown Lloyd Grove's Daily News contract was for two years, not the previously reported three, that it was set to expire that month, and that the paper likely wouldn't keeping him around. The two-year anniversary came and went, and Lloyd remained at the News.

And we'd thought Laurel stopped using the site for her personal needs once she snagged Jon Fine.

• Penguin wins auction for Alan Greenspan memoir with an offer believed to be nearly $9 million. Obligatory question: Irrationally exuberant? [NYP]
• The dude behind the allegedly forthcoming mags Everything for Men and Everything for Women is a con artist and a felon. Unlike most mag people, who are merely con artists. [WWD]
• Arthur S. holds his State of the Times meeting; reporters question why he gets paid so much and they so little. [Media Mob/NYO]
• ABC's Bob Woodruff reportedly now conscious and talking, though heavily medicated. [ABCNews.com]
• Air America could lose its New York affiliate on April 1. We'd be bummed, if we ever listened to it. [NYP]
• The Jew and the gays brought Oscar his second-worst ratings since 1987. [WP]
• Does Diane Sawyer want to anchor World News Tonight? One gossip site says so. [TMZ]
• Candace Bushnell to launch weekly Sirius Satellite Radio show giving advice to women. First piece of advice we'd like her fans to hear: "They're just cupcakes. Stop waiting on a line around the corner for them." [NYDN]
• Will Nick Sylvester be a Stephen Glass, a Mike Barnicle, or a Janet Cooke? [Media Mob/NYO]

Post-Frey, book publishers aren't taking any chances.

Today's email brings news of more departures from the wildly spinning Spin magazine:

What are some of the more interesting positions listed on Gawker Jobs today? Let's take a look.

As Spin spins, the roiling music mag has lost its grip on the nation's preeminent dork-chic indie-hipster-nebbish zeitgeist chronicler, Chuck Klosterman. Mediabistro's new star reporter, Dylan Stableford, broke the news a bit ago on the job-listing site's FishbowlNY, reporting that Klosterman "has decided to pack it up." We hear from people who know that while it certainly was his intention to pack it up — Klosterman was tight with Sia Michel, and he was planning to leave now that she's been sacked, we understand — he never quite had the chance; management eliminated his position. So: Fired or quit? Well, tomato, tomahto.

You're familiar, naturally, with the work of The Teaching Commission, yes? No? No. Darn. It's a nonprofit put together by a bunch of corporate bigshots dedicated to improving the quality of education by improving the quality of teachers. That neither you nor we have ever heard of this organization could, one might think, be blamed on its "director of strategy and communications." But that couldn't be the case, because the well-managed Daily News has just hired that guy — Josh Greenman is his name — as a member of its editorial board and its new op-ed editor. Greenman wants you to know with a new sheriff in town, "the paper is in the market for sharp, well-argued commentary on city, state, national, and international politics, as well as pieces on culture, sports, and anything else (including humor)." We're confident he'll make sure your writing gets lots of attention.

Back to Men's Journal for just a moment. So who did Michael Caruso, according to his wrongful-termination lawsuit, spend six trying to fire because his or her "removal was integral to the success of Men's Journal"? Survey says...

Yesterday we quoted an interesting claim from Michael Caruso's wrongful-termination lawsuit against Wenner Media, that "Wenner denied Caruso the ability for about six months to fire one staff member whose removal was integral to the success of Men's Journal." Never mind how one person's presence or absence could really be integral to a magazine's success; we wanted to identify this magical individual with make-or-break power. That's where the problem started: The emails we received fingered two different people, each with equal certainty and vehemence. So we don't know which one is really the culprit.

We were joking — sort of — when we suggested earlier that life at New York magazine is in fact just one big Ivy League reunion. Then this showed up in our inbox, sent out to the Princeton career network last week:

A memo today from Times deputy managing editor Jon Landman, he of the famous "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now" messsage, announces some backed staffing changes at the paper. The guy who's been running the continuous news desk, Bill Brink, is moving over to be managing editor Play, the new sports mag, and also work on "rich web projects" during the lulls in the quarterly production sked. Jim Roberts becomes the new director of continuous news. But he'll be doing more than Brink did in that capacity, because apparently the Times now thinks this whole online-news thing might be worth paying attention to.

We just received in our inbox Time Inc. chief John Huey's announcement of three high-level promotions at Entertainment Weekly. The news — Jay Woodruff to managing editor of EW.com, Henry Goldblatt to executive editor responsible for front-of-book, and Mark Harris to executive editor responsible for film coverage — was reported in the Post this morning, so we were finding the memo rather uninteresting. Until we noticed a certain snippet of each man's bio caught our eye:

Absolute magazine — the recently launched lifestyle mag for people much, much wealthier than you are or will ever be — folded today, editor-in-chief Andrew Essex confirmed to Gawker. Twenty-six staffers, about half of them editorial, are out of work, including Essex. The move comes as a shock; we hear the mag's owners paid an office visit only two weeks ago and expressed nothing but confidence and support.

We, too, got our grubby hands on ousted Men's Journal EIC Michael Caruso's wrongful-termination lawsuit against Wenner Media, and we must say it's a delightful read. Our favorite part, though, is the inclusion of Caruso's complete employment contract, executed on November 17, 2003, between Caruso and Wenner Media SVP Robert Kent Browridge.