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Former Blade staffers regroup, investigate paper's closing

By Paul Schwartzman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 17, 2009; 2:45 PM

Former staffers at the now-defunct Washington Blade say they're planning to publish a revived edition of the gay weekly on Friday, although they're not sure what name they will use or how they will print the paper.

At a coffee shop Tuesday morning in the lobby of the office building that was their former home, Kevin Naff, the Blade's editor, convened his staff -- now volunteers -- handed out assignments and made plans for a vastly scaled-down issue.

"It could be a four-page Kinko's job, it could be an eight-page professionally printed paper, we're still figuring it out," Naff said. "It's to let people know we're still here, and still reporting the news."

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