[1][2] Sajjad Haider, a past president of Kashmir Editors Guild, is its editor-in-chief.
[3][4] Besides the print and online formats, its stories are republished by other media outlets.
[5][6] Police raided offices of several newspapers in Srinagar including Kashmir Observer in 2016, and halted printing presses, confiscated printed papers due for delivery, and briefly detained printing and delivery staff.
[7][8] Auqib Javed, a reporter with Kashmir Observer, was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2018 in the Asiya Andrabi case.
[9][10] Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai, a reporter for Kashmir Observer, was thrashed and arrested by the police when he was out for work during COVID lockdown in 2020.