New York Observer

Failing Upward: An Interview With the Indispensable George Gurley

David Coggins | Posted 04.24.2012

David Coggins

His dispatches from the front lines of New York society evolved into reportage of Gurley's own exploits in boƮtes he patronized until he stumbled home, or was ejected, with his dignity in disarray.

Michael Calderone

Facebook Co-Founder Considers Buying The New Republic

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.09.2012

NEW YORK -- Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is a candidate to buy the New Republic, according to sources familiar with the matter. A deal has not yet...

Michael Calderone

Will Anyone Buy Influential D.C. Magazine?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.11.2012

NEW YORK -- The New Republic is on the market once again. But so far, its unclear if any media companies are interested in buying the influential, alb...

The New York Observer Bids To Go National

Capital New York | Sheila O'Malley | Posted 02.20.2012

The 25-year-old weekly newspaper is considering spinning off a nationally focused website, and will increase the size of the full-time editorial staff...

New York Times Staff Cuts: Longtime Editors Take Buyouts

The New York Observer | Posted 02.19.2012

IN MID-OCTOBER, a memo was sent out to all New York Times editorial staffers, from recently-installed Times executive editor Jill Abramson, managing e...

Jared Kushner, Dan Abrams In Talks To Partner New York Observer and Mediaite

Adweek | Posted 12.26.2011

Dan Abrams, the founder of Mediaite and the Abrams Media Network, and Jared Kushner, the owner of the New York Observer, have been in talks that have ...

Rich Hil 'Really Sad' About Observer Profile

The Huffington Post | Erin Clements | Posted 11.12.2011

Last month, the Observer profiled Tommy Hilfiger's 21-year-old rapper son who goes by the moniker "Rich Hil." In the Observer's highly entertaining...

Warren Buffett Chief Of Staff's Business Card: 'You Don't Call Me. I Call You'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.31.2011

Yesterday was Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's birthday. And while the 81-year-old's public perception is that of an affable billionaire, his c...

Michael Calderone

New York Media Startup Gets Big Investment, Hires Reporters

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 10.18.2011

NEW YORK -- Capital New York, a website that promises to show readers ...

Airplane Banner: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.09.2011

On Tuesday, less than a week after Standard and Poor's downgraded U.S. credit for the first time in history, a plane circled lower Manhattan with a ba...

Man Who Hunted Bin Laden Identified

Posted 09.12.2011

The New York Observer reports that the man who hunted Osama bin Laden has been identified. The mystery started to unravel after the AP wrote a stor...

47 New York Media Power Couples

The New York Observer | Posted 09.05.2011

Tina and Sir Harry, Ken and Binky, Nan and Gay -- the long-standing Old Guard of media couples are well known. But who else is at the top of the love-...

New York Observer Website Gets A Facelift

Yahoo! News | Joe Pompeo | Posted 08.08.2011

Change has been perhaps the most reliable constant at the New York Observer in recent years. In the past two years alone, the Manhattan weekly blew th...

Elizabeth Spiers: New York Observer 'Back On Track'

businessinsider.com | Noah Davis | Posted 07.20.2011

So, the NYO under Spiers: A publication in need of renovation, just like the offices on 44th street. Except the metaphor isn't that simple. Sure, S...

PHOTOS: The 100 Most Powerful Names In Real Estate

The Power 100 | Posted 07.03.2011

100. Steve Cuozzo, Real estate columnist and an editor for the New York Post Last November, Mr. Cuozzo bellowed from the tab’s pages that ā€œthe ...

The Real Free Press

Michael Gross | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Gross

Perhaps because he has a ready-made megaphone, David Carr doesn't get the benefits HuffPo and Facebook offer those of us who lack his significant advantage.

Jack Mirkinson

EXCLUSIVE: New York Observer Editor Out After 'Tension' With Top Brass

HuffingtonPost.com | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

The New York Observer's editor, Kyle Pope, is stepping down after clashing with his bosses over the direction of the paper, the Huffington Post has le...

Say Goodbye to 1999

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Yvette Kantrow

The waning dominance of the mainstream press has created a paradoxical situation: Scoops may be more important than ever and, at the same time, ever harder to define.

A Muslim's Duty to Society: The Time to Step Up is Now

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Qanta Ahmed, MD

Recently, Representative Peter King (R) NY announced his decision to hold hearings on the radicalization of Islam among American Muslims. I gave the m...

NYO Staff Writers Now ALL Male

The Awl | By Choire Sicha on November 4th, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

As of five weeks ago, there were two women staff reporters at the New York Observer. Three weeks ago, one of those women quit; today, Irina Aleksander...

New York Observer Makeover

New York Times | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011

When The Observer hits newsstands on Wednesday, it will have a new look inside and out. There will be fewer of the cartoon illustrations that have dom...

Death of the Literati: Good Riddance to Closed-Mindedness

Jason Pinter | Posted 06.16.2011

Jason Pinter

The Literati have been dividing literary culture for years, decrying popular fiction, dismissing authors, genres and authors exploring new media. And by doing so they have journeyed far, far away from the realm of relevancy.

Fiction Is Alive: LA Times's Carolyn Kellogg Responds To The NY Observer

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

Every few years someone finds a platform to declare fiction dead, despite all evidence to the contrary. This time around, it's Lee Siegel, writing in ...

The Way We Watched Movies...Remember?

Ellen Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellen Sterling

In the May 18 edition of the New York Observer Lee Siegel wrote an article titled Ciao to the Cineplex; I Miss Mass Culture! He noted that "The Federa...

'Carrie Diaries': Candace Bushnell On Carrie Bradshaw Before Sex

Time | Kayla Webley | Posted 05.25.2011

Meet Carrie before Carrie. Before Big, Samantha or Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was an impressionable 17-year-old girl from rural Connecticut who...