Newspapers Aggregated: Has young paperboy Jared Kushner joined the pack of vultures reportedly circling Long Island's Newsday?

By SDH The list of potential bidders for Tribune's Newsday is getting longer. Early out it was reported that Rupert Murdoch who seems to want to buy everything was interested in the paper, along with other prominent New York money bags like Cablevisions Chuck Dolan and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Now comes word that New York Observer ruler Jared Kushner may have little tingle for the Newsday as well. Tribune is said to be looking for payout in the $500 million region for the paper but there is no word that the company has started to take bids. In other newspaper news, The Wall Street Journal recently swallowed by News Corp, will go on sale in London taking on other business papers like Pearson's Financial Times. The Journal, with an initial print run of around 3,500 copies, will cost 250 pence, well above the 150 pence Financial Times cover price, but not out of line with the price of other non-UK papers sold in Britain. Yeah, like we didn't see this one coming. How long until an Australian version is born?

NYO sold out at newsstands, well at least at the newsstand down the street from Gawker headquarters

Jared Kushner went out of his rich way to personally hand out copies of his newly chopped down Observer to strap hangers, and our friends in our heads at Gawker are reporting that the Observer was sold out when they went to their local newsstand guy for a copy. We just trudged to the newsstand at the corner of Spring and Lafayette secure in the knowledge that it's the newsstand that has everything. But not, alas, Jared Kushner's new New York Observer! For the first time in the history of ever, the NYO sold out at a newsstand. We did get to have, swear to God, the following exchange with the cashier: Gawker: Excuse me, do you have the Observer? Guy: No, we are sold out! Everyone is buying because of new tabloid format! 'NYO' Sold Out, Newsstand Owner Displays Curiously Detailed Knowlege of Redesign [Gawker]

The Post's review of the new Observer, not really a review, but a collection of what other people thinks of the new Observer

The New York Post attempts to disguise a collection of quotes from media insiders as their review of the new Observer. Sometimes the so called review seemed to have the same DNA as the New York Times' review of the new Observer. In the debut issue, they still have an obsession with the New York Times, and the front page piece on Hillary Rodham Clinton looked like one of those mid-level New Yorker pieces that you could take or leave. One thing that should go, however, is more bizarre and frightening artwork like Clinton's disembodied head on the cover. Veteran designer Roger Black noted, "They obviously clearly thought it through to make it appeal to people who like reading." Black does object to the four-page wrap cover. "It seems to dumb it down and make it look a lot like other alternative weeklies." We love the Observer artwork. That plays a roll in the paper standing out along with its salmon color. THE POST REVIEWS OBSERVER'S NEW LOOK, KINDA! [NYP]

Morning Wire:The New York Times' David Carr is not too pleased with the new Observer

We don't think Jared "The Kush" Kushner and company will lose any sleep over David Carr's article in this morning's New York Times at all but Carr gets into why the paper may have lost its New Yorkness among other things. He also seems to accuse the publishers of getting too tabloidy. So when will a revamped website go live? Looks like The Kush didn't quite coordinate on this one. Perhaps a new site should have launched with the new print format! The trademark cover still exists inside a tabloid wrapper, but it is hidden and diminished now. The new wrap is short on words and seems to exist primarily to create a front-page ad space (all the rage now) and to tie the mediacentric front of the newspaper to its back, where real estate is now treated as other tabloids treat sports. But The Observer’s first whack at tabloid headline writing is something less than successful. “Hil Drill: It Takes a Chill” is buttressed by “Location, Location, Location!,” an unpardonable lapse into cliché from the best-headlined paper on the planet. Carving out the “wood” for a tabloid — the large, main headline that is supposed to make a newspaper jump from the rack — looks easy, but it is not. The Observer will need a new lexicon to compete in this dark, arcane art. A Cheeky Broadsheet’s Tabloid Makeover [NYT]