New York Times Finally Finds a Successor to David Carr

His name is Jim Rutenberg.

JimRutenbergPicHuffington Post senior media reporer Michael Calderone is first to this week’s biggest media story not named Sean Penn. The announcement of David Carr’s successor.

Per the memo from NYT executive editor Dean Baquet and business editor Dean Murphy, sliding over into the most prominent and long vacant U.S. media critic opening is Jim Rutenberg, chief political correspondent for New York Times Magazine. From Calderone’s dispatch:

In the memo, Baquet and Murphy write that Rutenberg – a former media reporter for The Times and the New York Observer – is “returning to his media roots.”

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