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EMI's new senior vice president of digital strategy is not only trumpeted by the company as a founder of tumbleweed-filled virtual world Second Life, he's proud to say that he doesn't know of, or buy, much new music. He sure does like that Amazon sells stuff without DRM, though—and he complains about the iTunes Store's offerings being "broken" by copyright protection, even though the shop made a big deal about going DRM-free with his new employer's wares last year. I guess he didn't have to endure one of those job interviews where you're required to prove that you know, you know, something about your potential place of work and the job you'd be doing there. [Silicon Alley Insider]

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Monday morning headline-scanning just won't be the same now that music-business reporter Jeff Leeds has been let go from the New York Times. Leeds, who was the only Times writer covering the industry's inner doings, had been employed by the paper since 2004; he'd worked at the Los Angeles Times before that. [Deadline Hollywood Daily / Pic via PBS]

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The LA Weekly has let classical critic Alan Rich go because of decisions made "by the corporate people in Phoenix," where Weekly owner Village Voice Media is headquartered. Just out of curiosity, how many full-time classical critics does VVM have left at this point? (For a point of comparison, Rich's ouster means that the entire city of Los Angeles has one.) [LA Observed]

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As sorta-predicted by the Anono-Critic, pop omnivore and Love Is A Mix Tape author Rob Sheffield is leaving his post at Rolling Stone and following that mag's former executive editor, Joe Levy, to Blender, where he'll write a monthly column. [Page Six / Photo via Random House]

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Rolling Stone has put two people in the Executive Editor position recently vacated when Joe Levy took the reins at Blender. The new hires: Jason Fine and Eric Bates, both of whom are being bumped up from the Deputy Managing Editor ranks. The mag has also hired former Spin staff editor Michael Endelman as senior music editor and ex-GQ senior editor Jason Gay as deputy features editor. [The Music Press Report]

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New York Times music critic and official rockism explainer Kelefa Sanneh is leaving the Gray Lady for The New Yorker, where he'll reportedly cover the "culture" beat; Sanneh wrote about World Changers Church International pastor Creflo Dollar for the mag in 2004 and penned a piece on corporate rap for it in 2002. No word on who will replace Sanneh at the Times—or even if he'll be replaced, given that the paper's going to cut 100 jobs from the newsroom this year. [Radar]

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Joe Levy Takes The Reins At "Blender"

VH1 talking-head staple and former Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy has been named editor-in-chief of Blender, according to a release that just landed in our inbox. Levy is apparently replacing Craig Marks, who had been Blender's editor-in-chief since 2004; the magazine also appointed a new publisher in December. Guess this means Levy won't be on the next season of I'm From Rolling Stone! Full release after the jump. More »

9:01 AM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By mjohnston
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