In February 2011, Paybarah returned to The New York Observer which he had left a few months earlier,[1] where he wrote for the daily blog, The Politicker.
[2] In September 2011 he joined the online news publication Capital as senior writer.
[3] Paybarah also hosts a political blog on the website of the local NPR station, WNYC.
[2] At times Paybarah will inform political colleagues or rivals of a controversial statement another politician has made to provoke a reaction.
An example of this was when he informed others of congressional candidate David Weprin's statements in an interview for Vosizneias, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish websites in the United States, regarding the marriage equality law which allows gay and lesbian marriages in New York State.