Just got word from a reliable source that virtually everyone who matters is leaving the Patriot News this January.

Details are sketchy, but word has it that the PN offered relatively generous “buyouts” for many of it’s employees.

And from the looks of the list of those who are confirmed to be leaving five weeks from now, I’m wondering- who’s going to write the news? Will the PN become an newswire-feed only publication? Who will write the witty editorials? Who will cover the human interest stories? Who will spin the Mayor’s press releases? Oh wait…John Luciew isn’t on that list…yet.

Confirmed Patriot News Employees Who Are Leaving January 1:

Dale Davenport
Herb Field
John Goodrich
John Troutman.
Jim Lewis
Jerry Gleason
Frank Cozzoli
Ellen Lyon
Mary Bradley
Gerry Lenton
David DeKok
Mary Warner
Nancy Eshelman
Alan Hayakawa