Herbert Becomes Latest Columnist to Leave New York Times

After 18 years on the opinion pages of The New York Times, columnist Bob Herbert is leaving the newspaper. His final column will run this Saturday.
 
The Times announced Herbert’s resignation on Friday. In a memo sent to the paper’s staff, Herbert said, “The deadlines and demands were a useful discipline, but for some time now I have grown eager to move beyond the constriction of the column format, with its rigid 800-word limit, in favor of broader and more versatile efforts.”