Help the New York Times pick Barney Calame's replacement.

Joshua Micah Marshall: One of Web journalism's stars, Marshall is the best reader of the bunch. Armed with an X-acto knife, he cuts promising shoots out of banal daily newspaper stories, transplants them into a hydroponic bed at Talking Points Memo headquarters in New York City, and cultivates them into scoops. (See his work on Trent Lott and the U.S. attorney firing story.) Don't hold his Ph.D. against him. Big question: Marshall can do greater damage to the New York Times from outside its walls than from inside, so what's his motivation?

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Your nominations? Send them to slate.pressbox@gmail.com. Disclosures: I know Green better than I know Cottle, Cottle better than I know Marshall, Marshall better than I know MacFarquhar, and I hardly know Spiers at all, although I have a close relationship with her Earthlink e-mail spam blocker. (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)

Correction, March 29, 2007: The original version of this article mistakenly said that the term of public editor is 18 months. The first public editor did serve 18 months; the second, two years. (Return to the corrected sentence.)