Time

Rick Stengel on Monday afternoon: "When I became editor of Time, one of the things I said was 'I don't want to put question marks on the cover. I want to have a point of view.'"

Time's cover line, published today: "Does Temperament Matter?"

To reach Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief, you have to dial an twelve-digit number (that's minus a series of zeros that you sometimes need to dial first) which rings him on his satellite phone in the house the magazine shares with two other media organizations inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

Mr. Dehghanpisheh, who's been in and out of Iraq since 2003 in rotations that usually last two months at a time, sounds pretty upbeat as he talks about the challenges of reporting a war that in five years has gone through so many different phases. "In '03, '04 movement was pretty much unrestricted, I guess self-restricted," Mr. Dehghanpaisheh says through a slight delay. "You'd jump in a car and go to Fallujah and report a story. You could get away with a pretty bare bones security set up in those early days. Maybe just a guard. But in general, relatively low-key."  read more »

In the wake of 100+ job cuts at Newsweek, the Journal's Rebecca Dana parachutes down into the Newsweek and Time buildings to find out what's happening.  read more »

So that Times story about John McCain, the one the world heard about in December, was published last night.

In a nutshell:  read more »

In a memo sent this morning to Time staffers and posted on Romenesko, managing editor Rick Stengel announced that the magazine has hired Salon political reporter Michael Scherer. Mr. Scherer, who has also worked at Mother Jones, will report and produce videos for Time.com, as well as writing for the magazine, and will be based in the Washington DC bureau.

Mr. Stengel writes: "Michael represents the new TIME correspondent: adept on-line, on-air and in print."