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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 12/1/2005 8:51:06 PM
Title: Purdum quits NYT for Vanity Fair
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:44:23 -0500
To: [NYT Washington bureau]
From: Philip Taubman
Subject: Todd Purdum

Washington Bureau:

As most of you have heard, Todd has decided to leave The Times to become National Editor at Vanity Fair. Todd is one of the paper's most gifted journalists, and finest colleagues.

We can fill his cozy corner in the back of the bureau, but we can't replace Todd. Few reporters in the long history of The Times have matched the radiance of his writing, his unerring knack for coming up with just the right anecdotes to launch and tell a story and his command of so many journalistic forms, including news, portraiture, analysis, scene, essay, narrative and history. Todd is the master of all these arts. And he also happens to be one of the nicest, most collegial people in our profession. It's impossible to keep count of the papers that have been graced by his stories and the days that have been made better and more productive by his presence.

I hope Todd will leave us some champagne and a few of those classy goblets by his desk. And I'm personally counting on an invitation to the Vanity Fair bash at the Oscars next spring. He'll be here until the end of the year, so there will be plenty of time to salute Todd before he departs. For now, I'll just say it's been a great pleasure and high privilege to work with Todd, sentiments I know all of you share.

Phil

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