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Dashing Joe Hagan, the media-reporting up-and-comer who only nine months ago left the peach playpen of The New York Observer, where he'd been the NYTV columnist, to take over the media beat at The Wall Street Journal, is now set to leave the Journal and become a contract writer at New York mag. There's no formal announcement yet, but we understand Hagan will start with New York in late March, and he'll write on topics including media, business, and cultural institutions.

Even better, from what we hear, is that maglife might more suit him, too. In his nine months at the Journal, Hagan — certainly a diligent reporter and a stylish writer — had 46 bylines and six corrections. That yields an Alessandrian 13 percent corrections rate, and, well, we're told the Journalists look a little less fondly than Times editors on such things — particularly in their up-and-comers. New York, however, has excellent fact checkers.