New York Observer

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Posted at 10:10am on Friday, February 5th, 2010

NY Observer to Help Create New Las Vegas Weekly

The New York Times reported on February 4, 2010:

"The New York Observer is very much a creature of its home town, devoted to telling knowing tales of the city’s power structures. When it branched out with a new publication last year, it was not to another city, but to another slice of the Apple — real estate. So what’s next?

Would you believe Las Vegas?

On Thursday, Observer Media Group announced that it had joined with Wendoh Media, a Las Vegas-based publisher, to create Vegas Seven, a free newspaper about life in that city. The news release says this will be a weekly publication covering politics, culture, dining and “profiles of well-known figures that frequent the city.”

Sounds a lot like a certain salmon-colored paper we already know."

The full story:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/new-york-observer-to-help-create-las-vegas-weekly/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:59am on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

NY Observer Hires New Managing Editor for Web, the newspaper announced on February 3, 2010:

"Tyler Thoreson has been hired as the new managing editor for Observer digital. He will oversee Observer.com and VSL, as well as any future web or mobile properties.

"We're thrilled to have Tyler aboard," said Kyle Pope, The Observer's editor. "We have ambitious plans for The Observer online and we believe he's the perfect person to make them happen."

Most recently, Thoreson served as the executive editor of men.style.com, Conde Nast's online home for GQ and Details. He was previously a freelance editor for IMG, handling projects for AOL, Knight Ridder Digital, and others.

His first brush with The Observer was back in 1996, when he worked as a fact checker.

Thoreson will start February 15th."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 3:50pm on Friday, December 11th, 2009

December 11, 2009: Christopher Stewart has been named deputy editor of the New York Observer. His work has appeared in GQ, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired, among others.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:00pm on Monday, November 16th, 2009

NY Observer Executive Editor Leaving, according to Politico's Michael Calderone, who reported the news on November 13, 2009:

"Benson told Politico that he'll be joining outgoing editor Tom McGeveran on a new venture but declined to get into details because "they're in the middle of talking to a number of parties."

As Benson leaves, so goes a bit more of the paper's institutional memory.

Already this year, longtime editor Peter Kaplan resigned, and several veteran staffers — including then-executive editor Peter Stevenson and writer George Gurley — were laid off. A few months later, political reporter Jason Horowitz decamped for The Washington Post's Style section."

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1109/NYO_exec_editor_Benson_leaving.html