Seems like this is a week when my former bosses cut themselves loose from Ma Courant.

First Lynne DeLucia. Now Jenifer Frank, who brought credit on the paper for her work at Northeast Magazine (later, in its last year, NE) and for her scholarly work on “Complicity,” is moving to the New London Day.

Here’s the official announcement:

Jeni Frank, who has spent the last two years helping shape the local news mission, is resigning to take a position as night city editor at the New London Day.

Jeni first joined The Courant in 1985 as a reporter.  She returned  in 1995 and held various editing stints including copy editor, news editor, Northeast Magazine editor and politics editor.

Jeni relishes storytelling and her touch has shown through the work of writers on such projects as “Unlocking Ben’s World,” “How We Love Our Dogs,” and “White Knuckled Take Off Of Flyboys’’ among others.

Jeni’s crowning achievement was the magazine’s project: “Complicity: How Connecticut Chained Itself To Slavery.’’ The piece was distributed among schools and colleges statewide.   In 2004 Jeni and two others signed a contract for a book deal.  “Complicity:  How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery’’ was published in 2005, and was nationally recognized.

We’ll miss Jeni’s caretaking in story approach – her thoughtfulness in how to report and shape a piece.  We’ll miss her intellect and her wit.

We wish her well in her new job.

I worked with Jeni for one fun year as the advertising-starved magazine relaunched under its new name, then crashed and burned. It was fun because Jeni encouraged all of us — Jim Doody, Joel Lang, Rinker Buck — to do what we liked to do and to pursue our ideas (some of them a little wacky) to the fullest.

I fear that she is trading her long tenure at the Courant for a long commute to New London because she sees another crashing and burning on the horizon; and, I suspect, because the trajectory is no longer fun.

Jeni is a real pro of a leader, of course; so I hope The Day values her as it should.