RD Recap: New Hires at BuzzFeed; Changes at WaPo

The New York Times moves literary critic Janet Maslin down to contributing book critic where “she will continue to write regularly for The New York Times but at a somewhat less grueling pace.”… Roll Call lands a new politics editor, grabbing John Helton from CNN, where he spent the last 14 years. He had been overseeing election coverage for CNNPolitics.com… Meanwhile, the news network poaches Ben Werschkul from the NY Times, to be head of the digital video team.