The Huffington Post’s executive editor, Tim O’Brien, is leaving the site to work on his next book, Capital NY reports. Arianna Huffington announced the departure in a staff email this morning.

Mr. O’Brien, who has a five-book contract with Random House for a series of historical thrillers about the Lincoln assassination, oversaw the creation of Huffington., the site’s iPad magazine that launched last year but didn’t build up a subscription base and helped build up HuffPo’s original reporting arm. Before going over  HuffPost in early 2011, Mr. O’Brien was the Sunday Business section editor at The New York Times.  Read More

Tom Shales, The Washington Post Style section’s fabulous curmudgeon in residence, confirmed that after almost 40 years with the Post he’ll be leaving in December. “It’s scary, damn scary,” he told TBD. 

Mr. Shales took a buyout from the Post in 2006 and has been working on contract ever since. He says that he Read More