Earlier today, I got an email from a Globe staffer noting that my list (scroll down) of reporters and writers taking the latest buyout offer was incomplete. I was going to try again--but the Herald's Christine McConville beat me to it, compiling by far most comprehensive run-down yet on the latest Globe exodus.

Some of the names McConville cites were first reported elsewhere. But I believe she's the first to mention business reporter Kevin Galvin, science writer Colin Nickerson, editorial writer Alyssa Haywoode, feature writer Suzanne Ryan, and reporter Brenda Buote.

McConville also tells us that suburban reporter Stephanie Siek is leaving sans buyout, as is reporter Anna Badhken, who arrived with some fanfare last summer, but with a one-year contract. And, for good measure, she gives us the names of some non-bylined, non-writing newsroom departures as well.

[M]y decision to leave was a difficult one and was made at the most personal level. It's a good time for me to be moving on. Period. I would hate for anyone to think it's a reflection of this paper or our editors. I never could have imagined leaving a newspaper run by Marty Baron (who lets us be journalists and not worry about the rest of it) with editors like Caleb Solomon, Mary Jane Wilkinson, and Ellen Clegg -- and many others you don't need me to list.

I literally grew up at the Globe and count many people here now and from my earlier years among the most important people in my adult/professional life. Many "Globies" have become my Boston family and taught me about their town  -- and in the process have given me a new home. Beyond actually writing a few items for tomorrow's column, my long-term plans include trying to spend ONE day on a New England beach. (I'm very white so that could be a problem.) My more long-term plans include a Sunday story I owe the Movie section, actually sitting in the Bristol Lounge and not paying any attention to who's at the other table, and finishing the captions for Bill Brett's third book. Unless, of course, Mark Cuban buys the Pirates or the Cubs and then I'll have to rethink my plans to stay in the Boston area.

Here, according to Boston magazine's brand-spankin'-new power issue, are the most powerful journalists in town:

In the top fifty, we've got Globe editor Marty Baron (10), Globe columnist Joan Vennochi (tied for 41), WBUR general manager Paul La Camera (44), and Herald publisher Pat Purcell (tied for 47).

Update: The rest of BoMag's list--which, I should emphasize, was determined by votes from a select group of said powerful people themselves--has been updated and simplified. Here's how things now stand:

AMONG THOSE TIED FOR 63: Globe State House bureau chief Frank Phillips; Lisa Hall, VP/news director at Fox 25; Ed McCabe, an investigative journalist and author apparently known as Mr. Oxygen

AMONG THOSE TIED FOR 95: Laura Raposa and Gayle Fee of the Herald's Inside Track; Globe columnist Scott Kirsner; ex-Globe columnist Steve Bailey (presumably because he's leaving the country)

AMONG THOSE TIED FOR 137: Globe photographer Jim Davis; Channel 7 anchor Frances Rivera; WHDH owner Ed Ansin; Globe columnist Ellen Goodman; Globe publisher Steve Ainsley; some sportswriter named Jim Hawkins

There's more! Herald reporter Casey Ross, State House News Service reporter Jim O'Sullivan, my Phoenix colleague David Bernstein, and WBZ political analyst Jon Keller are all singled out for praise (scroll down), though none of them got a number. Ditto for Howie Carr and the Herald's front page (scroll down again).

The biggest omissions? In no particular order, I'd suggest Globe columnist Scot Lehigh; Herald editor Kevin Convey; Globe op-ed chief Renee Loth; Jim Braude of NECN/WTKK; NECN president/GM Charlie Kravetz; WGBH-TV's Emily Rooney; and Globe reporter Donovan Slack. But I'm sure I'm missing some myself.

Suggestions?

Yesterday, I had to contribute to today's Globe story which was anchored by two Metro reporters who had the state police reports of the incident. I was pulled into the story because I cover local TV news and I wrote an indepth profile on Randi last fall, after she took the reins at Channel 7. She became Boston's youngest (and only female) general manager at a TV station. So I know her. My knowledge of her and Channel 7 was needed for the Metro story and I did my best to do my part.

Besides the police reports, no one knows the other side of the story, which Randi isn't telling because her attorney advised her to clam up, which I don't blame her for doing. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel a little uncomfortable by the local coverage of the story. (If this happened to someone you know well professionally, you'd might feel the same way.) [emph. added]

Here's the Globe story Diaz is referring to.

On the one hand, I respect Diaz's sympathy for Goldklank. (As a group, journalists aren't known for sensitivity to their subjects.) Still, given the perils of blogging at or about work, his decision to voice that sympathy online seems imprudent.

UPDATE: Here's what the Globe's newsroom ethics policy says about personal blogging on work-related content:

If a staff member publishes a personal Web page or blog on a site outside the Globe’s control, the staff member has a duty to make sure that the content is purely that: personal. Staff members who write blogs should generally avoid topics they cover professionally; failure to do so would invite a confusion of roles.

And here's a related item from Universal Hub--which, unbeknownst to me, posted on Diaz's post last night.

In which I ponder why the same man who communicated so well as a candidate has communicated so poorly as governor.

Correction: April 7, 2008
A front-page obituary and a headline in some editions on Sunday about the actor Charlton Heston misstated his age and the year of his birth. He was 84, not 83, and was born in 1923, not 1924.

Correction: April 9, 2008
An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in some copies on Monday about the actor Charlton Heston misstated his given name at birth. It was John Charles Carter, not Charlton Carter. The obituary also referred incorrectly to the character played by Orson Welles in the film “Touch of Evil,” in which Mr. Heston had a starring role. The character, Quinlan, is a police captain, not a sheriff. And a list of Mr. Heston’s films accompanying the obituary on Monday misstated the relationship between two characters in the film “Midway,” in which Mr. Heston played a Naval officer. The characters, the officer’s son and a woman of Japanese descent, are hoping to marry; they are not already married.

Correction: April 22, 2008
An obituary on April 7 and in some copies on April 6 about the actor Charlton Heston misstated the year he enlisted in the Army Air Forces, as well as other aspects of his life. He enlisted in 1942, not 1944. He served in the Aleutian Islands about two years, not three. And he and his wife, the former Lydia Clarke, an actress, spent less than one year, not several seasons, at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theater in Asheville, N.C., which they founded after the war.

Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Ayers, or his decision to continue to attend services at his church, or his remark about bitter working-class voters, are isolated episodes that may say little about Mr. Obama and may pale in significance compared to the weightier issues facing the country. Even so, they are the kind of things that Republicans will no doubt try to use against Mr. Obama. In particular, Republicans are likely to aim that material at blue-collar voters who, to date, have been slow to support Mr. Obama and for whom, Republicans believe, the same questions that Mr. Obama’s critics described as trivial could have great resonance if Mr. Obama is the Democratic candidate in the fall election.

Boston NOW to shut down immediately

This healthy, growing 119,000-circulation daily is suddenly compelled to halt operations due to rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in Iceland where interest rates reached 15.5% Thursday, the krona, their currency, has declined over 20% against the dollar since January, and inflation is now at 8.7%.

“The death of any newspaper is a sad thing,” stated CEO Russel Pergament, “but the death of a vibrant, flourishing newspaper because of economic turmoil thousands of miles away is beyond sad and is something we never anticipated and for which we were totally unprepared.”

“ Our overseas investors are honorable people who have endeavored to fulfill all obligations to this newspaper,” he continued, “but the tumult in foreign credit markets has forced a change in our original understanding and their focus now appears to be primarily upon their core retail holdings. North American media is not even a distant second.”

“This newspaper, not even a year old, is right on track for profits in Year Three, just as the business plan called for,” says Publisher Mike Schroeder, “so this decision by our overseas investors, while perhaps understandable, is deeply troubling.”

BostonNOW’s editorial content, especially its strong local reporting, has been picked up dozens of times by Boston’s paid dailies and TV outlets. The Economist magazine lauded BostonNOW in January as one of the finest free dailies in the United States.

Since launching April 17th last year, BostonNOW has grown from 59,000 daily circulation to a CAC audited daily circulation of 119,000. America’s top retailers have found a good partner in BostonNOW and become loyal advertisers. Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, TJX, H&M, Lord & Taylor, along with national telco and airline advertisers have been pleased by BostonNOW’s ability to connect with a dynamic young readership.

Management’s primary concern right now is to help its suddenly displaced employees, who from scratch have created one of the most respected new dailies in the USA, find good newspaper and media work as soon as possible. A series of interviews, both on premises and off, are being set up with local media companies.

Today's iteration of Slate features a slideshow based on The Soiling of Old Glory, Louis Masur's new book on the Stanley Forman photograph (shown above) that cemented Boston's reputation as a racist city. Take a look. There's a lot of interesting material there--including the fact that the editors of the old Boston Herald American considered not running the photo in question.

"The Herald-American editors vigorously debated whether publishing the photograph would further inflame an already explosive racial situation that had made national headlines for nearly two years," Masur explains. "They feared reprisals and increased violence. In the end, they published, believing the image was too important to suppress."

They were right, of course.