Huh. New York Times op-ed expounder Frank Rich, who currently possesses a huge chunk of the Sunday opinion page in the world's most influential newspaper—where he's allowed to say whatever he wants—is leaving all that behind to go write for New York magazine, where he "will be an essayist for the magazine, writing monthly on politics and culture, and will serve as an editor-at-large, editing a special monthly section anchored by his essay." Rich's own explanation:

In your chilly Tuesday media column: Michael Ware's rugged face will not return to CNN, the NYT's remarkable government-friendly duplicity, the Time Inc. executive shakeup continues, Men's Fitness's editor is out, Chicago mag ripped off, and a reporter's mysterious death.

In 1970, an unknown thief picked Rudolph Resta's wallet from the pocket of his coat, which was hanging in a closet at the New York Times building. Forty years later, a security guard found the wallet hidden in a hole in a wall. After a series of magical coincidences, an NYT reporter tracked down Resta, gave the wallet back to him, and turned the whole affair into a charming story for NYT's City Room blog.

It is 2011, and Maureen Dowd wrote a column about how people are mean on the Internet. Were you aware that Yahoo! comments are often disgusting?

New York Times staffers just received the following exciting memo from editor Bill Keller and editorial page boss Andy Rosenthal. The paper is reinventing the "Week in Review" section! We've read this memo twice, and it sounds to us like the new section will be... exactly like the current one? But maybe with more letters to the editor? See if you can spot what the fuss is about.

In your finally Friday media column: New York Times reporters under fire, Jack Griffin unceremoniously canned at Time Inc., Joe Conason leaves the New York Observer, and executive moves at CBS News.

In your springy Thursday media column: Nir Rosen and Jeffrey Goldberg deserve each other, turnover and understanding at the New York Times, Essence weaves, Helen Thomas regrets nothing, and a Meet the Press veteran passes away.

In your questionable Wednesday media column: Arianna Huffington knows how to pick 'em, buyouts at Newsweek, Whoopi gives America's best newspaper her blessing, Time magazine revamps, and Rolling Stone outsources its cover.

In Sunday's New York Times, two film critics claimed mentioned only seven black Oscar winners in a piece about the scarcity of black actors who have won Academy Awards—when in reality, there were fifteen.

The New York Times Travel section has an article this weekend that has the ring of a Brian Williams parody, but does, in some bizarre way, appear to be real. Basically the paper sent free-associative word mangler (and chief food critic) Sam Sifton across the East River to file a "36 Hours In..." column about Brooklyn. You know, Brooklyn? The borough?

Click to viewThe New York Times has a cool video taken inside Cairo's "Facebook Flat," where a group of dedicated young Egyptian activists hang out, update their Facebook pages and help organize the Egyptian uprising. It sort of looks like the apartment in which we are typing these very words, which makes us feel very inadequate about ourselves. Guess it's time to go "like" some pages about fighting animal abuse or something.

This note went out to the New York Times newsroom today from Standards Editor Phil Corbett. Do not unpublish stories! (You must find slicker ways to cover things up, duh.)

In your finally Friday media column: you won't have Deborah Solomon's Q&A's to scoff at any more, more evidence of Sam Zell's intolerability, Hachette waits on its layoffs, and magazine newsstands are dinosaur-like things.

New York Times editor Bill Keller is not a big Twitter guy. He only tweeted once in all of 2010. But last night—when the blues crept in on cold wintry feet—Bill reached out to his Tweeps for solace.

New York Times Co. profit fell by 26% in the fourth quarter, thanks to declining print advertising, as usual. UPDATE: this morning's staff memo from Pinch Sulzberger and Janet Robinson is below.

A cool place run by a cool guy exists in New York City, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The place, according to the Times, is cool because of the people who frequent it, as well as its amenities.

New York Times editor Bill Keller has spilled the secrets about his paper's dealings with Wikileaks and Julian Assange in a new Times magazine piece. Upshot: Assange is a weird sissy nerd, and he probably eats boogers.

Are you a yuppie who cares about Mark Bittman ending his recipe column? You may enjoy his 25 favorite recipes

Martin Peretz is an obscenely wealthy moral cripple who owns the New Republic. His penchant for spouting ethnic slurs against Arabs recently earned him two lengthy and intense magazine profiles. Neither one saw fit to report that he is gay.

The New York Times is working to establish an untraceable electronic "drop box" that would make it easier and safer for leakers to pass them large electronic files. Implied: give your stuff to us, not Wikileaks. Please. [The Cutline]