“Still feels slightly unreal to me, after all this time, though my last day is next Wednesday, so I guess I better get used to the idea,” Laws told FishbowlDC this morning.

The reason for his departure? Laws has been doing a Master of Arts program part-time at Johns Hopkins, and is a little more than halfway through. He wants to concentrate on his studies. He says he’ll be living on the Eastern Shore but traveling back and forth between there and D.C. and Baltimore to meet with his thesis adviser.

We wish Laws all the best. See a few pictures of him, along with a question we asked to allow him to reminisce and reflect on his time at The Hill. continued…

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“I’ve really enjoyed my time at The Hill and have learned a lot,” Zimmermann wrote to FishbowlDC. “I just decided journalism wasn’t for me right now. I’m very excited about the opportunity to work at Benenson Strategy Group.”

Since Zimmermann is not leaving for a competing publication, he was not asked to forgo his two-weeks notice and pack up his things within 20 minutes like the last blogger, Tony Romm, who left The Hill for a job at Politico.

Bloggers Mike O’Brien, Jordan Fabian, and Elise Viebeck will pick up the slack and carry on with the Briefing Room blog. Zimmermann has been one of four scribes who write for the blog.

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