We’ve already noted that Houston Chronicle DC blogger Julie Mason and film critic Eric Harrison are no longer with the paper.

Other reported victims of the voluntary buyout/layoff purge at 801 Texas whose bylines you might recognize: DC staffer Bennett Roth, metro writer Rad Sallee, classical critic Charles Ward, longtime Galveston reporter Kevin Moran (who was ordered to work downtown a while back), and reporter Eric Hanson and photographer Buster Dean.

We wish them all the best and hope they land on their feet.

— Richard Connelly

This article appears in Oct 9-15, 2008.