More names of L.A. Times departures

Confirmations are coming in on Los Angeles Times newsroom staffers who were laid off in yesterday's new wave of staff cuts, or who are taking buyouts to get the heck out while the getting is good enough. Among those leaving is science desk writer John Johnson, a veteran who has covered a number of beats. He sent the newsroom a note this afternoon:

I had always planned that when it came my time to be remaindered that I would simply slip away like the proverbial housebreaker. Now that it's happened, it feels rude not to say thanks to the many, and I do mean many, people who befriended and helped me over the past two decades.

So thanks and, as that great Glam band of yesteryear, Slade, said, Gudbuy t' Jane.

Pete Thomas covered outdoors recreation — fishing, surfing, adventure and stuff like that — for a good chunk of his 30 years at the Los Angeles Times. He posted yesterday at Facebook that he's among the layoffs. Sports staffer Mark Medina sent the newsroom a note saying he was leaving. Three photographers and a photo editor got tapped, and at least one books staffer is leaving. I posted yesterday about Elina Shatkin, and earlier about the departures of arts writer Suzanne Muchnic and Jerusalem bureau correspondent Richard Boudreaux. I'm told that, in Orange County, columnist-turned-staff writer Dana Parsons has decided to leave at the end of the year.

The Pfaffinger Foundation reminds that it is available to help current and former Times employees in need. Note from the chairman after the jump.

And at the New York Times: Names are leaking out of newsroom staffers laid off this week, including culture writer Eric Konigsberg, national writer Sara Rimer and real estate writer Josh Barbanel.