Comings and Goings: Yahoo, NYT, Salt Lake Tribune

A few moves here and there to note, including the debut of Ben Zimmer as the “On Language” columnist for The New York Times magazine, replacing William Safire. Zimmer appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition today: “It is a little intimidating, I have to say, especially because I can’t reproduce William Safire’s very distinctive voice,” he said. “I’ll put my own stamp on it.” He’s the executive producer of vocabulary.com and the nifty visualthesaurus.com, and in a column cross-posted