Both members of the Ottawa Citizen’s editorial board have resigned.

Kate Heartfield and James Gordon, who wrote editorials for the Postmedia-owned paper, both announced that they were resigning from the paper on Wednesday.

“This newsroom is home, these people are my family. I’ve been so proud to have my name on this masthead. But it’s time for me to move on,” Heartfield tweeted.

Heartfield said she would switch focus to her family and writing fiction. Both she and Gordon had been with the paper for more than a decade.

“I just wanted to say that it has truly been an honour to share a newsroom with some of the best journalists in the country,” Gordon tweeted. “Some of them are personal heroes of mine in this business and their work is absolutely vital.”

Gordon and Heartfield are not the first at Postmedia to resign their positions on the editorial board. Andrew Coyne left his role as the National Post’s editor of editorials and comment after he had a “professional disagreement” about Postmedia’s decision to endorse Stephen Harper during the October election.

He will still write a column for the newspaper.

“While Postmedia’s intervention was unprecedented in my experience, I could not allow the precedent to stand,” Coyne tweeted.

All Postmedia papers were required to endorse the Conservatives, a move that angered many readers and members of the media, including John Honderich, chair of Torstar.

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