SF Chronicle losing two more business journalists

The San Francisco Chronicle, which last month lost two business reporters to buyouts, will lose two more to layoffs, a source at the paper confirmed to Talking Biz News.

They are Internet reporter Verne Kopytoff and senior technology reporter Deborah Gage. Their departure date could not be determined.

Kopytoff covered the Internet for the Chronicle since 2000, including such companies as Yahoo, Google and eBay. He previously worked as a free-lance writer for the New York Times’ Los Angeles bureau. He graduated with a master’s in journalism from University of Southern California and bachelors’ degrees from UC Riverside.

Gage covered computer security, privacy, VCs and trends around Silicon Valley. She has covered technology and business out of Silicon Valley since 1994, most recently for Baseline magazine. She lives in San Jose with her husband, Ron Rainey, and talks to her neighbors when she’s looking for story ideas.

See the full list of layoffs here. Last month, business and labor reporter George Raine and biotechnology reporter Bernadette Tansey took the buyout. Real estate editor Bill Burnett took early retirement.