Choire Sicha

The New York Times has named Stella Bugbee, developer of New York Media’s The Cut, as its new Styles editor. Bugbee replaces Choire Sicha, who stepped down in April to become a senior editor in The Times newsletter department. She will join New York magazine as an editor-at-large in August.

Choire Sicha, who stepped down as the head of the New York Times’ influential Styles section in April — ostensibly to take a job as a development editor in the Gray Lady’s nascent newsletter division — has bolted to New York Magazine. Sicha tweeted on Monday that he will be...

Choire Sicha may have just been given a new job at The New York Times, but it appears he got an even better one from New York Magazine. The longtime Styles editor has been tapped as editor at large of the Vox-owned publication, it was revealed Monday by editor in chief David Haskell. There he’ll write short-form pieces for Intelligencer, the magazine’s news and politics vertical, along with longer essays and critical pieces, as well as focusing on special projects.

A month after Choire Sicha’s puzzling departure from the top of the New York Times Styles section for an ill-defined role in a newsletter unit, speculation continues to swirl on who will get the plum job and exactly what prompted his departure. The inside candidate who would ordinarily be considered...

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…”

After almost four years as Styles’ top editor, Choire Sicha is stepping down and transitioning into a new role at the New York Times. For his next chapter at the Gray Lady, Sicha will become a senior editor on the paper’s project to expand its newsletter portfolio. Sicha will reportedly...