We're not exactly sure how Us Weekly's web operations work. Sure, we may notice when UsMagazine.com makes minor changes to its web masthead, but from there on out, we pretty much assume online director and high-cheekboned Ken Baker spends the day figuring out how to plug his appearances on Ryan Seacrest's radio show.

Lucky us, then, when we got our hands on a Wednesday email chain between Baker, EIC Janice Min, and GMA transplant, former Daily News editor, and No. 2 Colleen Curtis about what makes a good web hed. (Exciting topic, we know.)

Except we weren't the only ones to get the email: The note was also sent out to former Us staffers, some of who now have jobs at competing magazines and haven't worked at Wenner in years.

The internal email arrived, inexplicably, in the inboxes of Nick White and Chris Coats (both now at People), Mia Sulpor (at Variety since February), and Jenny Sundel of People and In Style. And there was also someone else in the CC field: tim@vegas.com. That would be Timothy McDarrah, the former Us Hot Stuff editor who's not so much at Vegas.com as he is in jail for six years for trying to get with a 13-year-old girl.

So what's Ken & Co. up to, bringing all these ex-staffers into the conversation? Um … we haven't a clue.

The emails, post-jump-thingy.

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Is it time for Janice Min to have a No. 2 at Us Weekly? That's what more and more gossip industry insiders have been suggesting, pointing out how well things worked with Bonnie Fuller having Janice as her go-to girl (and the fact that Ken Baker, Min's pesudo-No. 2, is a liability). Now we hear the prophecy appears to be coming true: An insider tells us Colleen Curtis – currently a top staffer at Good Morning America underneath the newly seated senior exec producer Jim Murphy – is packing up shortly and heading over to the Wenner Media tabloid. Curtis, of course, headed to GMA from the New York Daily News, where she made sure the likes of George Rush and Joanna Molloy didn't confuse Luke and Owen Wilson while ensuring Ben Widdicombe delivered lines on cue. We hear GMA is aware of the departure and that she's leaving on good terms. Her official title at Us will be something along the lines of "executive editor" – of which there are a few – but at its core, we're told her role will be Janice's right hand. That is, until she replaces her when her contract comes up next year. For now, though, she'll be Janice's counsel when she needs to unload about the latest Jann Wanner crazy fit.

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