Jerry Brown Loses His Press Secretary; The Chronicle Loses Greg Lucas, Mark Martin

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The San Francisco Chronicle's long-time Capital insider Greg Lucas has announced he's leaving what's left of the newspaper's Sacramento bureau. In a departure note to friends and fans, the 19-year veteran of the paper wrote that he is leaving to "write more travel stories and feed my seemingly unquenchable wanderlust ... And I don’t think I’m too old to learn the new trick of blog although I’m troubled since it’s a four-letter word like work and golf ... P.S.
I’ll see you around campus. I’ll be the guy with the earring and the "Will Write 4 Food" sign."
 
Mark Martin, who also has been a stalwart writer at the paper for the last several years, also is moving to greener pastures. Martin will be working at the Little Hoover Commission.
 
The departure of Lucas and Martin leaves just two reporters left in the Sacramento bureau of the financially troubled Chronicle, having shaved an editor two weeks ago and not replacing another reporter who left.

Also moving on is David Kravets, the long-time AP legal reporter, who has left his post as press secretary to Attorney General Jerry Brown. Kravets had been on the job for just three months. He's now searching for another job in the political press world.