Observer Editor in Chief Out After Less Than a YearThe New York outlet has gone through eight editors since Jared Kushner took over.

[Collection]The Observer, formerly The New York Observer, is again without an editor in chief. Ben Robinson, who only joined the outlet in February of last year, left Friday, WWD has learned. It’s unclear whether he was fired or quit, but the online masthead has already been updated to remove his name and the role of editor in chief completely. An Observer representative could not be immediately reached for comment. The outlet — formerly a popular New York newspaper printed on light pink paper that launched the career of Candace Bushnell and had a lively tabloid flair — has been online-only since November 2016, when then owner Jared Kushner decided to stop printing and put the publication into a family trust because his father in law, Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidency. Kushner is now a presidential adviser, along with his wife Ivanka Trump, and his brother in law, Joseph Meyer is chairman and publisher. Since Kushner took over the title in 2006 at just 25 years old, the paper seems to have languished, in influence and web traffic, despite efforts to broaden its scope of coverage. Renaming it Observer in 2016 was an attempt to move away from an image as a regional

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