The New York Observer, the salmon-colored weekly owned by real estate scion Jared Kushner, moved quickly to fill its vacant top editor slot.

Kyle Pope, a former Wall Street Journal editor and No. 2 editor at the defunct Condé Nast Portfolio, succeeds Tom McGeveran, who said last week he was resigning to pursue his own ventures after only five months as interim editor.

Pope said he had contacted Kushner in May when longtime Editor-in-Chief Peter Kaplan said he was leaving; the next month McGeveran was made interim.

“I think we’re really going to focus on the money and power in New York,” said Pope. “Who’s running things, who’s trying to unseat them. A lot of it is business. We’re going to amp up coverage of that, but still cover art, culture and politics.”

Pope starts on Monday, but McGeveran has plans to stay until year-end.