A lengthy stream of names, many of them seriously big time folks, keeps rolling out of the Washington Post newsroom today as senior reporters, editors and columnists are coming to final decisions about their buyout offers. The face of the Post is about get a lot younger and a lot less familiar to its readers.

The two biggest names to come out of today’s round of buyout acceptances are longtime sports columnist Tony Kornheiser and veteran political columnist David Broder. Broder will become a contract employee of the Post and will continue to write his column for The Washington Post Company. Kornheiser, who co-hosts Pardon the Interruption on ESPN with fellow Post sports columnist Michael Wilbon, hasn’t written a regular column for the paper in years.

The deadline for Posties to submit paperwork to accept the buyout is Thursday, so more names could come out overnight. Fishbowl DC has been doing a great job keeping track of the will-they-stay-or-will-they-go list. Others who are definitely departing include Style section editor Deborah Heard, Obituaries editor Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb, Travel editor K.C. Summers, Copy desk AME Don Podesta, Metro reporter Sue Anne Pressley Montes, and many others.

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