#Columnist Andrew Sullivan announces departure from New York magazine

Prominent conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan announced Tuesday that he will move on from New York magazine at week’s end — on the heels of Bari Weiss’ abrupt resignation from the New York Times’ opinion section.

“This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” wrote Sullivan in the first of a series of tweets blasted out Tuesday afternoon.

“I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work,” he continued in the thread. “I have no beef with my colleagues, many of whom I admire and are friends.”

Though Sullivan described his reasons for leaving as “self-evident,” he did not elaborate further, promising an in-depth explanation in his final piece for the magazine.

“The underlying reasons for the split are pretty self-evident, and I’ll be discussing the broader questions involved in my last column this Friday,” he wrote.

Sullivan’s announcement came just hours after Weiss stepped down from her position as a writer and editor for the Times’ opinion section.

Weiss, among the most prominent conservative voices at the Gray Lady, described in a letter to publisher A.G. Sulzberger an “illiberal environment” in which Twitter served as the “ultimate editor.”

That same social media platform’s eruption over the news included rumblings of a possible team-up between Sullivan and Weiss.

“I’d say Bari’s future is a lot more promising than the NYT’s,” wrote Sullivan, prior to announcing his own resignation.

In response, New York and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali tweeted, “Over the past few weeks I’ve repeatedly heard rumors from sources that Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan were going to work on a project together.”

Following his own announcement, Sullivan only teased at his next chapter.

“I’ve been preparing for this eventuality, and the column will continue elsewhere,” he wrote. “See you on Friday, when I’ll detail some exciting news.”