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Jim Schachter, a former assistant business editor at the L.A. Times now at the New York Times, was in line for, but did not get, the NYT business editor job recently filled by an outsider. So a memo online today at Romenesko announces, with lavish prasise, that he will move from business to be a deputy to NYT culture editor Steve Erlanger.
Meanwhile, Romenesko also has a Women's Wear Daily report confirming that Erlanger has accepted the resignation of NYT music critic Neil Strauss. He chose to leave and work on book projects, including ghostwriting How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson, Strauss is also doing a book based on a first-person story he wrote on being tutored in the art of picking up women, WWD says. Columbia Pictures has bought the film rights for the low six figures.