Media Mondays

Good news today for young people -- and women -- who work in or consume print media. The New York Times business section fronts a David Carr column on the 25-year-old who bought the New York Observer last week. Carr's column, which finds -- shocking! -- that a youngster can have not only wealth but also manners, smarts and, dare I say, a sophistication about the world, is accompanied by this piece on Jared Kushner's plans for the paper.

Kushner gets my gold star of the day, for this quote:

“Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one,” he said.

On its inside pages, the NYT biz section includes two articles with bits on women's magazines getting serious on content. Personally, I'd have combined them. But I'm mostly just happy to see there still are editors who don't buy into the "youth want only fluff" theory that prevails over many media companies today.