Nobody outside of journalism cares who edited a NYT Magazine piece

Slate.com
Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren knows that, says Jack Shafer, “but what the hell, if you want to attract attention to your redesigned magazine, you’d be a damn fool not to do everything in your power to make people notice.” Still, “editor credits make my bowels seize the same way the ‘letters from the editor’ in some magazines do.”
> From 1999: Colorado paper adds credits for story editor, hed writer