- The New York Observer
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The New York Observer Type Weekly newspaper Format Tabloid Owner The New York Observer, LLC Founder Arthur L. Carter Publisher Jared Kushner Editor Elizabeth Spiers Founded 1987 Headquarters 321 West 44th Street,
New York, NY 10010
United StatesISSN 1052–2948 Official website observer.com The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. Since July 2006 the paper has been owned and published by the American real-estate mogul Jared Kushner.
Published every Wednesday, the newspaper's editorial team is led by Elizabeth Spiers with other writers and editors including Christopher S. Stewart, Rex Reed, Una LaMarche, Brian Gallagher, Tom Acitelli, Alexandra Peers, Lee Siegel, Aaron Gell, Matt Chaban, Daniel D’Addario, Dan Duray, David Freedlander, Adrianne Jeffries, Nate Freeman, Michael Miller, Reid Pillifant, Ben Popper, Kat Stoeffel, Nitasha Tiku and Emily Witt[1].
Previous writers include Joe Conason, Alexandra Jacobs, Tom McGeveran, Peter M. Stevenson, Doree Shafrir, Hilton Kramer, Andrew Sarris, Richard Brookhiser, Michael Thomas, Michael Tomasky, John Heilpern, Robert Gottlieb, Nicholas von Hoffman and Steve Kornacki.
The paper is perhaps best known for publishing Candace Bushnell's column on Manhattan's social life on which the hit television series Sex and the City was based. It is visually distinctive because of its salmon-colored pages and sketch illustrations, in the style of La Gazzetta dello Sport. Henry Rollins once described it as "the curiously pink newspaper."
The fourth and longest serving editor for the newspaper, Peter Kaplan left the newspaper on July 1, 2009. Interim editor Tom McGeveran announced on October 28, 2009 that he plans to leave the newspaper by the end of 2009.[2]
The New York Observer asserts to advertisers that it delivers Manhattan’s most affluent, educated and influential consumers, with the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million and 96% of readers being college graduates. It has a paid circulation of 51,000. The Observer operates several blogs: Betabeat.com, The Politicker, the Daily Transom, the Media Mob, and the Real Estate.
Ownership
The publisher and original owner, Arthur Carter has had other publishing interests in the past including the Litchfield County Times. At one time, he was a part-owner in The East Hampton Star. Carter received a B.A. in French literature from Brown University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He spent twenty-five years in investment banking until 1981, when he founded the Litchfield County Times in New Milford, Connecticut. He owned it for twenty years until selling to Journal Register Company, later also selling his 50-percent interest in The East Hampton Star in 2003. He has been an adjunct professor of philosophy and journalism at New York University and is currently a trustee. He is also a sculptor. Despite his "registered opportunist" political beliefs, from 1985 to 1995 he owned The Nation.
In July 2006, Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old law student and son of a wealthy New Jersey developer, Charles Kushner, purchased the paper for just under $10 million. In April 2007 Bob Sommer became president.[3]
References
- ^ "The New York Observer Masthead'". The New York Observer. http://www.observer.com/masthead. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (November 5, 2009). "Kyle Pope Is the Next Editor of The Observer". The New York Observer. http://www.observer.com/2009/media/kyle-pope-next-editor-observer. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
- ^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (July 31, 2006). "Developer's Son Acquires The New York Observer". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/business/media/31observer.html. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
External links
- Official website
- The New York Observer collected news and commentary at The New York Times
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