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Times Middle East Correspondent Dexter Filkins Jumps to The New Yorker

His new editor, David Remnick, says he’s “over the moon,” and old boss Bill Keller called him “a heroic talent.” (We call him “the rarest kind of writer: the studmuffin.”) You can read all about him in New York’s 2006 profile, “The Baghdad Press Club.” [WWD]

Times Middle East Correspondent Dexter Filkins Jumps to The New Yorker