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1 By Kat Stoeffel 2/02 4:46pm

off the record

New York Times Magazine Hires Thought Catalog Writer

More than a year after Hugo Lindgren took over as editor in chief, The New York Times Magazine is still evolving. Last month it debuted a new column: “They’re Famous! (On the Internet),” by Gaby Dunn, a 23-year-old stand up comedian who has written for Thought Catalog and GOOD.

Unlike the short-lived “Last Month on the Internet” column, a sort of collage of found Internet gems, “They’re Famous!” takes Internet personae for its subject matter but otherwise sticks to the conventions of traditional journalism.

As far as Internet correspondents go, Ms. Dunn is practically embedded.

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1 By Drew Grant 1/12 4:59pm

yoga

This is what anger looks like on people who do yoga

The 10 Best Responses to New York Times Magazine’s Yoga Article

We're calling it now: 2012's best Non-Controversy (Nontroversy?) of the Year is going to New York Times Magazine's excerpt of "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body." The item in question ran over the weekend; part of a book by yogi William J. Broad, who claimed that people can get seriously hurt or injured or dead from practicing yoga. Notice the word "can" in the title. Yoga can wreck your body. Not "Yoga Will Wreck Your Body." It's a subtle distinction that most of the article's readers seemed to have missed.

Instead of saying "Namaste" and moving on with their lives, yoga disciples are coming out of the woodwork to decry Mr. Broad as a traitor and fear-monger. Some of the yogis used in the article have been interviewed by other publications to say Mr. Broad misquoted them. Other places are jumping on the brand new thought-train that holding positions for long periods of time can do your body damage in the long run.

In the end, this whole debate is a non-starter because, as Sarah Miller from The Awl points out, "Yes, you can get injured doing yoga; you can also get injured walking across the street."

We found the 10 best articles that capture the absurdity of this Times health scandal du jour. Enjoy, and remember: take deep breaths.
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By John Koblin 9/30/10 1:08pm

Exclusives

Hugo Lindgren Named New York Times Magazine Editor

In a stunning move, The New York Times is expected to announce that Hugo Lindgren will be the next editor of The New York Times Magazine, according to three people familiar with the deal (UPDATE: It's now official. The announcement is at the bottom of this post).

Mr. Lindgren spent the last seven months as the executive editor at Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/16/10 4:32pm

Bring Your Young People Ideas to Carlos Slim

Jesse Lichtenstein's Times Magazine cover story this weekend discusses U.S. State Department diplomacy in the age of Twitter, focusing on Jared Cohen and Alec Ross — two officials who are on the cutting edge of 140-character diplomacy.

The most interesting anecdote in the piece comes from Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, who talks Read More