Dave Smith Named Editor of New York Times' Week in Review

Tanenhaus will continue editing The Book Review and will begin writing more for the newspaper. Huzzah! No one’s out of a job.

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller’s memo to staff, in full, excruciating detail, after the jump:

To the Staff:

For the past two years Sam Tanenhaus has performed the amazing feat of editing two weekly sections — The Book Review and the Week in Review — while writing enough sage prose of his own to fill one book, grace an acre or so of newsprint in our own paper, and lend a little intellectual heft to a few other publications.

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