New York Times Styles editor Choire Sicha makes puzzling departure

Both the fashion world and New York Times insiders were abuzz on Friday over the surprise exit of the paper’s Styles section editor Choire Sicha.

“Hello!,” Sicha wrote in the farewell note that caught his roughly 50-person staff off guard Friday morning. “Because everything is so good on the desk right now, I’m taking advantage of the moment to renounce this job…” Sicha, who will be taking a new job in The Times’ nascent newsletter unit, didn’t say why he was leaving. But he appeared to joke that he is simply joining the recent “trend” of overworked media folks up and quitting their jobs.