Two biz reporters leaving Denver Post

Michael Roberts of Westword writes Thursday that two Denver Post business reporters — Gargi Chakrabarty and Elizabeth Aguilera — are leaving the paper, and only one of them will be replaced.

Chakrabarty is moving to Boston to be with her husband, while Aguilera has accepted a fellowship at the University of Southern California.

Roberts writes, “As a result, reporter Mark Jaffe is being reassigned from the metro section to business, where he’ll concentrate on energy coverage — Chakrabarty’s specialty. But no one new will be brought aboard, despite the loss of two journalists over the span of two weeks. ‘I can do what needs to be done with the staff I have,’ Moore notes via e-mail. ‘Lots of other papers are doing the same.’

“No argument there. During times like these, every newspaper employee is being asked to do more — and that workload grows with each departure. In the meantime, we can only wonder how many stories that might have been caught this time last year, when both the Post and the Rocky Mountain News were on the case, are now falling through the cracks.”

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