Talking Biz News reprints yesterday’s announcement that Stella Hopkins and Jen Aronoff are leaving the paper in a few weeks. Hopkins is sliding over the BAC PR shop, which I find fascinating. If Anne Finucane didn’t have a role in this, I’d be amazed. Aronoff is going to law school.

Both had produced some pretty good, ground up reporting in recent months on the banking, housing, development beat. Now the paper is looking to fill those two spots.

MNI: Here’s MNI ‘splaining that everything is A-OK even though revenue is down 6 percent and the chain sold 200K fewer papers the latest Q compared to a year ago.