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PRINT IT: Variety’s new editor in chief Tim Gray spoke out Monday about modernizing the 104-year-old Hollywood trade journal, but “modern” in his parlance still includes the print medium. “You have to keep changing to stay on track, but personally I think print won’t go away.” Gray said the paper is turning a profit, so there are no immediate plans to shutter the daily or weekly editions in favor of the online version. “Our goal is to give them different identities because they have different audiences,” he said. On the changing Hollywood scene, he said, “I do find it really fascinating that the whole world has become more Hollywood obsessed, so you can’t go wrong covering Hollywood, but it’s a fine line. Our readers don’t want to know about Suri and Shiloh’s play date. I don’t even want to know who they are, but I do.” — Marcy Medina