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Apr 21 2009 4:44pm EDT

Late Breaks: Web-Only 'P-I' Flounders, more

-So much for the faint hope that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer might be able to maintain its web traffic with no print edition and a fraction of the staff. Seattlepi.com was down 23 percent year-over-year in unique visitors in March. [E&P]

-John Koten has stepped down from his job as CEO of Fast Company and Inc. Some think a couple of obnoxious memos he wrote not long ago had something to do with it. [Crain's]

-Washingtonian magazine used a shirtless photo of Barack Obama on its current cover, and it digitally changed the color of his swim trunks from black to red, possibly to suggest he's a Communist. [Huffpo]. □

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