Emily Yoffe Steps Down as Slate's Prudie

Mallory Ortberg takes the reins.

Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist, Emily Yoffe, is stepping down after almost a decade of epistolary counsel that helped readers chill out, get a new perspective or face things square on. On Thursday, she will advise Slate’s audience for the last time.

“Emily has embodied Prudie with freshness and acuity for nearly a decade now,” writes editor in chief Julia Turner in a post announcing the news, “so I was saddened when she told me she wanted to try something new, but I also understood.

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