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Reporter Matt Myerhoff is leaving the L.A. Business Journal to be communications director for Councilman Greig Smith...Lots of newsroom buzz at the Daily News about the futures of Business Editor Dan Anderson, who recently began working with some city-side reporters, and Metro Editor Barbara Jones...KPFK's Deadline L.A. at noon Saturday examines next week's election with Daily News Editor Ron Kaye, LA Weekly writer Robert Greene and Huffington Post-er Rick Jacobs...December's Vanity Fair profiles Arianna Huffington and writes "with the Huffington Post, Arianna might finally have it all—attention, influence, and the chance to showcase her ideas and those of her interesting friends in the biggest dinner party she has ever thrown"...Raphael Sonenshein and Jill Stewart square off over the state ballot propositions in the new Jewish Journal...Curbed LA finds the press release confirming that REI will open a new store in Santa Monica...My Zócalo interview with Dean Baquet airs next Thursday at 1 pm and Friday at 11 pm on Channel 36. C-SPAN taped it, but there's no sign of it on the schedule. Baquet gives his vision of the Times, responds to criticism of the paper, concedes the editors need to be smarter about Los Angeles coverage and says the paper has cut the Sports section too deeply. Baquet also says the recent Steve Lopez columns about Skid Row were designed to show a new aggressiveness on local stories. Joe Scott blogs about the interview.