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Popular on Twitter: Taking on Gladwell, Spiers to lead NYO, “Thank you Facebook”

By Hourly Press Feb. 4, 2011, 4 p.m.

Elizabeth Spiers is the New York Observer’s new editor-in-chief

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POSTED Feb. 4, 2011, 4 p.m.

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