[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Three more Capitol press corps veterans are leaving their posts.
 
Aaron Davis of the Associated Press has snared a job at the Washington Post. Davis joined AP from the San Jose Mercury News, and has written a number of investigative pieces (most recently a barnburner on a no-bid Schwarzenegger Administration's PR contract that grabbed headlines on the central coast) while covering the governor. Davis also was covering the budget, which means someone else will have to draw that short straw at the news organization.
 
Tom Chorneau of the San Francisco Chronicle is leaving to join School Innovations & Advocacy Inc., which is headed by the quoteable Kevin Gordon. Chorneau, who had a stint at AP covering the capital before jumping to the Chron, will be heavily involved in the organization's online news service. Expect to continue to see him under the dome covering this year's budget battle. Chorneau's departure leaves the Chronicle with a single reporter, Matt Yi. There's some talk that the Chron -- which has lost three other reporters within the past year or so -- will bring another reporter to the bureau. I'll believe it when I see it.
 
Tamara Keith of KQED has announced she'll be leaving this summer, also headed to Washington, D.C.  She'll be following her husband to the nation's capital. No word on whether the San Francisco-based station will be replacing her to join John Myers in the station's Sacramento bureau.