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."

Published in yesterday's paper:

• Today's speculation on the next World News Tonight anchor: Charlie Gibson. Because Diane wants him to. [NYO]
• That Times Mag Mark-Warner-Looks-Nothing-Like-His-Photo correction? It's all thanks to the Observer. [NYO]
• Howell Raines' latest memoir TK on May 9. In case 20,000 words in The Atlantic wasn't enough for you. [E&P]
• Kent Brownridge is gone from Wenner Media. Again. For real. We think. [NYP]
• And Jann startes hunting for a new Kent. Mary Berner, maybe? [WWD]
• The Times thinks Hillary's running for president, too: She'll now be covered through the Washburo instead of the Metro desk. [NYO]

It's only Wednesday, but this is the clear frontrunner. From today's Times:

We received an email yesterday, a version of which we receive nearly every weekend. Asked a reader:

An odd synchronicity showed up in our inbox.

Thought we've read it, more or less in its entirely, for the five years of its existence, it occurred to us yesterday that perhaps we've entirely misunderstood the Times Magazine's annual "Year in Ideas" feature.

• Investor Carl Icahn signs on Bruce Wasserstein's Lazard to join in his crusade against Time Warner management. New York feature on Icahn's clever business strategy TK soon. [NYT]
• NYT Mag bigthinker Michael Ignatieff leaves magazine, Harvard gig, and the country to rescue his native Canada from its political crisis. NYU bigthinker Noah Feldman, recently signed up as Times Mag contributing writer, seems set to replace Ignatieff there. [NYP]
• Steve Capus named president of NBC News. [NYT]
• And Rome Hartman, 60 Minutes vet, named executive producer of the still-anchorless CBS Evening News. [NYT]
• Dear Les Moonves: For the love of God, please don't make Katie Couric the CBS anchor. Please. Love, Jon Friedman. [MW]
• Conde's standard Christmas directions aren't good enough for Anna. [WWD]

Speaking of Maureen Dowd, a reader was perplexed by a line in yesterday's 5,000-word Magazine excerpt from her new book. (Yes, between New York, the Times Mag, and — oh yeah — her column Saturday, you could read 12,000 words of Dowdiana over the last three days.) He writes:

• You can't even win in magazine publishing by appealing to the lowest common denominator, as tabloid king David Pecker is learning the hard way. [BusinessWeek]
• You can win, though, by appealing to the just-better-than-lowest denominator, as Jann Wenner — and his Us staff of the cool girls — has learned the fun way. [WP]
• OK! America has the Britney baby pix, allegedly. It's amazing what a little scratch can get you. [Access Hollywood via MSNBC]
• Oprah re-opens book club to works by contemporary authors. Jonathan Franzen is appalled. Then pleased. Then appalled again. [NYT]
• Economist gives free subscriptions to influential bloggers. We didn't get one, so take a guess who doesn't get a comments invitation. [Folio:]
• New weekend WSJ is a "spectacular bellyflop," says William Powers. Come on, tell us what you really think. [National Journal]
• "I'm a chiropodist," The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert tells his kids, according to the Times Mag. [E&P]

Now that they want your precious scratch, will the Times be even more vigilant about their exacting standards of accuracy? That may be the only explanation for the "correction" they appended to Elmore Leonard's first installment of his weekly serial story in their much-ballyhooed new "Funny Pages" section. The correction, mysteriously, is some obscure military something-or-other — and not an acknowledgment that the story isn't funny.

The Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" debuts Sunday, and E&P has a preview of this tripartite humor section. It apparently starts on page 41, right after Safire, who we're sure can't be thrilled with the development. (After all these years, etymological humor won't seem nearly as funny anymore.) It contains:

We never thought we'd see the day: Effective September 18, a weekly comic strip will appear in The New York Times.

In Sunday's Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon not only Q&A'd author Jonathan Kozol but also profiled Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, who was, Solomon wrote, "[b]orn in 1974 in the isolated Canadian wilds of Winnipeg."

Last week we mentioned that the upcoming Times magazine cover story, a profile of CBS' magnificently-toothed chairman Les Moonves, was written by Lynn Hirschberg, who we understand to have traded several friendship bracelets with Moonves. Surely, however, the profile would be objective, and so we spent our Sunday pulling the most telling parts:

The other day, six-figure media blogger Jim Romenesko picked up an item from Times magazine writer Lynn Hirschberg, who has an upcoming piece on CBS chairman Les Moonves' obsession with reinventing television news. Usually we leave the Moonves-stalking to our Juicy Couture-loving brother, so we moved on.

• Carl Icahn wants to split up Time Warner. [NYT]
• Times digital chief Martin Nisenholtz says the hope is that office move will make NYTimes.com "part of the DNA of the newsroom." Our hope is that people finally stop talking about inanimate objects' DNA. [OJR]
• With the network-news changing of the guard complete, advertisers might reconsider all the money they spend on the evening news. [NYT]
• New sports spinoffs TK from Times Magazine and, natch, SI. [NYO]
• Francis Bean Cobain, Kurt and Courtney's daughter, to appear in "Young Hollywood" package of October Teen Vogue. [WWD]

We're like the drug dealer in an after-school special. The first few fixes we give you for free, then you're hooked and can't help yourself. It's the only explanation for this email:

From left, the Times magazine cover images for July 24 and July 31.

Yes, you saw it right.