NYT Co. PR chief Catherine Mathis resigned yesterday to take up a post at the ratings agency Standards & Poor’s. It’s no secret the Times has been suffering a barrage of bad press this year, mostly to do with its finances. So should this resignation come as a surprise, or is Mathis just an early casualty of the new media PR world?

Why does everyone ignore Seymour Hersh? That’s what NYU Local editor Cody Brown wants to know, asking furiously on Twitter: “Why did the NYT omit mention of Seymour Hersh from the CIA story?” New Yorker editor David Remnick weighs in.