New York Observer Suffers an Ignoble Print Death

Moving forward, paper will observe from a digital-only perch.

All through this U.S. election season, the New York Observer has been parried with conflict-of-interest criticism. And this week, the day after Trump’s win, Vocativ published a solid look back at the problems of a paper owned by the President-elect’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

When Trump takes office in 2017, the only banner Observer headlines will be online. As revealed today by New York Times media reporter Michael L. Grynbaum, the weekly paper is going digital-only:

The decision will eliminate the use of New York in the paper’s title-its website is simply observer.com—and

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