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Late Breaks Out With Old Media In With New

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by Mark Stein
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Jun 02 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: Out With Old Media, In With New

Annie Groer, a 13-year Washington Post vet, recently took "what may be the sweetest get-the-hell-out retirement deal in American journalism today," along with more than 100 staffers. She reports on the farewell bash. [New York] via [Gawker]

Jeremy Allaire, the father of flash technology, thinks newspapers still have at profitability as "uber-platforms." Blaise Zerega writes: "It's taken advertisers the past two to three years to understand overlay technologies and now it's up to the content producers to get it." [Portfolio]

A court filing says someone fired a shot through the front door of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter who gave police the R. Kelly sex tape. [The Daily Swarm] via [Romenesko]

Vanity Fair responds to the Clintons: "Former president Bill Clinton's office fails to address a single factual mistake in Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair article." [Politico]

by George Quraishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation.)

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