Observer owner Jared Kushner tried twice to recruit New York Times wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin to take over the newspaper , according to New York . The 28-year-old publisher and the 32-year-old reporter and author of Too Big...

Andrew Ross Sorkin has been fielding job offers including one from Jared Kushner, New York Magazine reports.

Kushner, who married Ivanka Trump to much fanfare last month, is the young publisher of the New York Observer, and twice this past year has tried to hire the superstar business journalist away from his high-profile gig at The New York Times. But Sorkin, who will be profiled in next week's issue of New York, declined Kushner's offer to make him Editor-In-Chief of the publication.

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