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New Observer Editor Was Founding Gawker

The New York Observer is once again turning over its editorship -- the fourth such time since young real estate scion Jared Kusher bought it in 2006. The new editor is Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of gossip blog Gawker.

Sign of the times: the announcement was made Friday on the paper's Web site. "According to one former employee, the entire newsroom learned about the change in leadership from the Web posting," writes Matthew Flamm in Crain's New York.

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