Sorkin, Colarusso were considered for NYObserver editor slot

John Cook of Gawker reports that New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin and Bloomberg business journalist Dan Colarusso were considered for the position of editor of the New York Observer.

Cook writes, “Sorkin, this person says, was one of three finalists for the salmon paper’s top job along with Pope and Dan Colaruso, a former business editor at the New York Post who along with Pope also worked at Portfolio as its web editor and did a brief stint as the managing editor of Silicon Alley Insider after Condé Nast shuttered the business magazine.”

In addition, Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine writes, “In addition to being a best-seller, Sorkin has been fielding job offers. New York Observer owner Jared Kushner tried recruiting Sorkin twice during the past year. Most recently, he talked to Sorkin last month about taking over the paper before editor Tom McGeveran announced his resignation on October 28, according to several sources familiar with the matter.

“According to an Observer insider, Kushner ran into Sorkin at a party three weeks ago and said ‘let’s get together.’ The two had a meeting, but the talks never progressed very far. Last March, Kushner had also tried to recruit Sorkin to take over the Observer, as longtime editor Peter Kaplan was preparing to leave.”