Reply #13: UPDATE: Washington Blade Staff to Launch New Publication [View All]

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington City Paper

Tomorrow morning, the staff of the defunct Washington Blade will meet to launch a new publication that does pretty much what the Blade has done/did since 1969---cover gay Washington.

It just won't be called the Blade anymore.

"The staff is united," says current/former Blade editor Kevin Naff. "We’re all together. Our first meeting for our new venture is tomorrow morning."

The staffers don't yet have a name for the newspaper.

Not a dumb move at all: The Blade as a standalone publication runs a profit; however, not enough of a profit to keep its debt-troubled parent company, Window Media, in the black.

Read more: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/11/16/blade-staff-to-launch-new-publication/