Susannah Herbert is latest Sunday Times departure

Susannah Herbert, the editor of the Sunday Times News Review, is to leave the paper next week. The paper's managing editor, Richard Caseby, has notified staff that the role will be temporarily filled by the Sunday Times columnist and associate editor, Eleanor Mills. Mills had been News Review editor for seven years before she moved to the Times in 2008 for a brief stint as the paper's Saturday editor, before returning to the Sunday Times in June last year . It is not clear if Mills will fill the News Review editor's role on a full-time basis. Herbert told mediatheguardian.com that she was looking forward to leaving. "I have two small children and it's an hour's commute and I feel you have only one life and there is more to it than working 16-hour days in an airless office in Wapping," she said. "After two years at News Review I feel I don't have to prove myself. It is the centre of so much in journalism and much of what is important in journalism passes over your desk but I have had enough. There is a danger on this paper of working here for too long and becoming institutionalised and I didn't want that." She said she had a "new project" but would not reveal details of the job or whether it was in journalism. "I will say that a lot of the skills you pick up in journalism are transferable. At the moment I want to have a good leaving party and an excellent summer," Herbert added. Herbert was recruited as the Sunday Times literary editor from the Sunday Telegraph in 2006 before being promoted to News Review editor in September 2008 . She spent five years at the Sunday Telegraph, serving as arts editor and Review editor before the paper's culture magazine Seven was created in 2005. Prior to that she spent about 10 years at the Daily Telegraph, where she had a number of jobs, including Paris correspondent. She had previously worked at the Sunday Times as a news trainee 20 years ago. The reporter Chris Hastings is another recent departure from the Sunday Times. Hastings rejoined the paper in March 2009 after 10 years at the Sunday Telegraph , after an earlier two-year stint at the Sunday Times. Hastings's departure is understood to be one of the job losses as part of the paper's commitment to cut 10% of its estimated £42.5m editorial budget for the next 12 months . A Sunday Times spokesman had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".