• The New York Times, Monday, November 25, 2013 3:37 PM

The magazine Mental Floss promoted Jessanne Collins from editor to its top spot, editor in chief -- a personnel shift that, somewhat surprisingly, merited a full column in the New York Times. Maybe it's because of Collins' background as an editor on Playgirl magazine? That's where she reported "to executives at a publishing house that produced a bevy of pornographic titles, working with budgets so tight that she was used as a model," writes Christine Haughney.

To her credit, Haugney does not put this fact in the lead, instead positioning this perhaps undue interest in Collins as evidence that "To the underpaid, well-educated magazine scribes hoping for a break in an industry with little growth opportunity, there is hope." Still, Collins' "spicy credentials" are mentioned in the headline.

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