If you’re not in the journalism world or from New York City you’ve probably never heard of him. But at the intersection of those two worlds, Peter Kaplan, was revered by many as something like a minor deity. He was the longtime editor of The New York Observer. And his style and the people he mentored have had a influence in contemporary media way out of proportion to the Observer’s pretty small circulation.
Here’s his obit in the Times. And here’s a lengthier piece on who he was and what he did from last year in The New Republic.
