I think that she is really just quitting Seattle as a whole.

"In her last year at the Times, Best has worked alongside her newsroom through staff buyouts and a couple publishing clusterfucks involving coded racist language."

Oh and also, a Pulitzer prize for their coverage of the Oso Landslide: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news…

I'm no Times fan - the Ed Board has consistently shown that they don't share the same values with the community they represent, and inflammatory, biased headlines on perfectly reasonable and balanced news stories has become frighteningly common (see today's front page story on Renton and Sound Transit). But I'm with Jen Graves - Seattle is better off having a newsroom of 100+ working journalists in it. A lot of major cities can't say that any more. Best (heh) of luck to Kathy in her next job.

If that doesn't work out, she can always get into the dental floss business.