Choire Sicha will be the next editor of The New York Times Styles section, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Vanity Fair. The appointment caps months of speculation about who would succeed Stuart Emmrich in the high-profile gig, a post that involves lording over one of the Times’s more lucrative sections in terms of advertising.

As I’ve reported previously, Times executive editor Dean Baquet had narrowed the search to three candidates—Sicha, Lori Leibovich of Time Inc., and Jim Windolf, a Vanity Fair contributing editor and current editor of the Times’s Men’s Style section, who was the internal favorite—after New York magazine’s Stella Bugbee turned down the job in April. Word that Sicha had won the bake-off began circulating Friday afternoon.

Sicha, who didn’t immediately return an e-mail seeking comment, is an executive at Vox Media, co-founder of The Awl, and former writer and editor at Gawker, Radar, and The New York Observer. The Styles succession comes amid an exodus of notable Times journalists, from Michiko Kakutani to James Risen, who have taken voluntary buyout packages as part of a major newsroom restructuring that is underway. A Times spokesperson didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment.