Out goes deputy editor Adam Leigh and cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson, who happens to be Mrs Simon Kelner.
Now, like Mbeki and Zuma before him, he has a shot at going from deputy to the top job.
"We had to account for everybody that was going upstairs," Deputy Chief Peter Hayden said in his interview.
Graves joined the ECB board in 2010, going on to become deputy chairman in 2013 before he was elected the new chairman, succeeding Giles Clarke, in February.
He went on to become deputy chief executive and head of its US venture Fresh & Easy.
He went on to become deputy chairman of the Conservative party under John Major.
Hope went on to become deputy president of the court, a post from which he retired earlier this year.
He went on to become deputy foreign minister, Iran's ambassador to Syria, and is now foreign-policy adviser to Iran's parliament.
He went on to become deputy governor of the southern province of Hainan, a job he held when his detention was announced in February.
The bank's Hong Kong office also announced yesterday that it had let go its deputy head of Asia Pacific research and three research analysts.
Copies of the letter, signed by the CPJ's executive director, Joel Simon, have also gone to deputy PM, Nick Clegg, Labour leader Ed Miliband, home secretary Theresa May, foreign secretary William Hague and the chairman of the home affairs select committee Keith Vaz.
