The staff churn at City Pages continues as two more recent hires confirm that they’re leaving. Web editor Jeff Shaw and staff writer Jonathan Kaminsky are departing before the end of this month, following staff writer Jeff Severns Guntzel, who left just last month. Shaw worked at the paper for 11 months, while Kaminsky’s stint lasted around 18.

Shaw, who is one of Village Voice Media’s star web editors, is accepting a job as communications director for the North Carolina Justice Center, a Raleigh-based anti-poverty nonprofit.

“It’s an awesome job that speaks exactly to what I want to do in the world,” he told me. “It kills me to leave City Pages, because I love the city and I had a blast there. I really loved that job, and the staff is so great and full of awesome people. But this job is one notch up the scale of perfect jobs.”

Shaw’s noteworthy contributions include revamping City Pages’ online presence, winning a Society of Professional Journalists award for best use of multimedia, and serving as national lead on Village Voice Media’s cellphone strategy. But he admits last week’s coverage of the Republican National Convention was a high point of his time here (he was roughed up by police, while fellow CP staffer Andy Mannix was maced).

Covering the RNC, he said, “makes me regret leaving… That’s the stuff that really animates me about this business… How many other jobs put you on the front line of history like that?”

But, he adds, “If you’ve got to go, you might as well go out doing something you’re proud of.” He says his new job in Raleigh will offer “more work of that spirit.”

Kaminsky, who grew up in the Twin Cities, will be moving to the South Pacific island of Palau, where his wife will be taking a job as a clerk in the national Supreme Court. “I was recently married and want to be married for a long time, so I thought it would be best to accompany her,” he told me.

Kaminsky was a City Pages intern in 2000, and in his full-time stint produced remarkable work including “The Slum Lord of South Minneapolis” back in January.

Both Kaminsky, who was hired under editor Kevin Hoffman, and Shaw will leave City Pages by the end of the month; Kaminsky hits Palau, where he hopes to do freelance writing, in early October, while Shaw starts his new gig October 1. Hoffman has not responded to my voicemail and email requests for comment.

Their departures adds to a long list of exits — voluntary and involuntary — over the last two years, which resulted in a near-total makeover of the paper’s editorial roster.