Matt Lauer, the man who, for so long, has made our mornings slightly uncomfortable in indescribable ways, could be gearing up to make us slightly uncomfortable in the early evenings. According to the New York Post, several "knowledgeable sources" report that Lauer is the first choice to replace Trebek after the Jeopardy! host's contract expires.

Village Voice editor-in-chief and anti-Scientology crusader Tony Ortega announced today that he's leaving the alt-weekly, which he'd edited for five years. What is he doing? What else: writing a proposal for a book about Scientology. As he writes,

Barack Obama's new press secretary will be Jay Carney, who's been serving as Joe Biden's communications director. Before that he was a Time reporter, so steel yourself for endless "lamestream liberal media" screams from Sarah Palin and whatnot.

Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am was named the "Director of Creative Innovation" at Intel. What will he do? Apparently, Intel doesn't even know. But it will be totally creative. And innovative. Creatively innovative. Directly creative. Creatively direct Boom boom pow!

New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo has picked former "9/11 Mayor" Rudy Giuliani to co-chair his public safety transition team and help select candidates for top positions. Will these recommended candidates prove to be scumbag crooks and go to jail, too?

Nancy O'Dell, a longtime co-anchor of Access Hollywood, will replace Entertainment Tonight co-anchor Mary Hart, who is retiring.

Oracle co-president Charles Phillips—the subject of an ex-mistress's embarrassing billboard campaign—has left the computing giant. But Oracle will maintain its "scandalous co-presidents" quota: It's hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd, who was just fired—thanks to a Playboy model.

Media news! Former Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder is now the Executive Editor of Newsweek Digital. First they join Tumblr, then they hire a Gawker editor—Newsweek is the hip newsweekly!

New York online editor Jessica Coen, once of Gawker, is joining Jezebel as executive editor.