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Apr 22 2009 4:15pm EDT

Late Breaks: 'Observer' Editor Resigns, more

-Peter Kaplan is stepping down after 15 years as editor of the New York Observer. He says he wants to spend more time with his family -- really! -- and maybe find a job where he helps figure out how to save journalism. [NYO]

-There were newsroom layoffs at the Chicago Tribune today, although not as many as had been rumored were coming -- 53 vs. 100. [ChiTrib]

-A man from Papua New Guinea who was the protagonist of a story by anthropologist Jared Diamond in The New Yorker is suing, saying Diamond presented as facts all kinds of anecdotes that never really happened and the magazine didn't bother to fact-check him. [Stinky Journalism]. □

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