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• Joyce Purnick, the longtime Metro Matters columnist for the Times and the wife of former executive editor Max Frankel, will publish her last column Monday. No word on what comes next.

• In the same week Time Out gained an EIC and lost an M.E., we just received this email: "The editor-in-chief of Time Out New York Kids magazine, Barbara Aria, left her job yesterday. No other info known."

• From Mediabistro, which has recently lost UnBeige blogger Eva Hagberg, FishbowlNY blogger Rachel Sklar, and news editor David Hirschman, and where managing editor Aileen Gallagher today has her last day, comes word today that its FishbowlLA blogger, Michael Sonnenschien, is leaving, too. Interesting.

After the jump, the Times memo on Purnick.

To: The Staff
From: Joe Sexton

After writing Metro Matters for a decade, Joyce Purnick has decided to move on in pursuit, in her words, of reinventing herself once again. Her final Metro Matters column will appear Monday.

Joyce, briefly reassuming her role as editor, ordered me to keep this announcement short. I always do what she tells me.

So, here it is: no sharper or classier journalist ever walked these floors. And no more consistently informed and intelligent column ever graced Metro's pages.

Joyce is going to take some time to figure out what she would most like to do next. She might have a book in her. Lord knows, she has ideas and opinions and an appetite for work. She also has the knowledge that the door here in Metro is open for her return. Now and forever.

Joe