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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | NYP Holdings, Inc. (News Corp) |
| Founder | Alexander Hamilton (asThe New-York Evening Post) |
| Publisher | Sean Giancola[1] |
| Editor | Keith Poole |
| Sports editor | Christopher Shaw |
| Founded | November 16, 1801; 224 years ago (1801-11-16) (asThe New-York Evening Post) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York City 10036 United States |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 122,100 Average print circulation[2] |
| Sister newspapers | California Post Page Six |
| ISSN | 1090-3321 (print) 2641-4139 (web) |
| OCLC number | 12032860 |
| Website | nypost |
TheNew York Post (NY Post), founded as theNew York Evening Post (originallyNew-York Evening Post), is an Americanconservative[3] dailytabloid newspaper published inNew York City. ThePost also operates three online sites: NYPost.com;[4]Page Six, a gossip site; andDecider, an entertainment site. The newspaper was founded in 1801 byAlexander Hamilton, aFederalist andFounding Father who was appointed the nation's firstsecretary of the treasury byGeorge Washington. Its most notable 19th-century editor wasWilliam Cullen Bryant. The newspaper became a respectedbroadsheet in the 19th century.[5]
In the mid-20th century, the newspaper was owned byDorothy Schiff, who developed the tabloid format that has been used since by the newspaper. In 1976,Rupert Murdoch'sNews Corp bought thePost for US$30.5 million (equivalent to $169 million in 2024).[6][7] In October 2020, theNew York Post'sHunter Biden laptop story became the subject of controversy after it was reportedly suppressed on social media before the2020 U.S. presidential election.[8][9][10] As of 2023,[update] theNew York Post is thethird-largest newspaper by print circulation among all U.S. newspapers.[11]
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ThePost was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about $10,000, equivalent to $188,980 in 2024,[6] from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as theNew-York Evening Post,[12] abroadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of theFederalist Party, includingRobert Troup andOliver Wolcott[13] who were dismayed by the election ofThomas Jefferson asU.S. president and the rise in popularity of theDemocratic-Republican Party.[14]: 74 At a meeting held atArchibald Gracie's weekend villa, which is nowGracie Mansion, Hamilton recruited the first investors for the new paper.[15] Hamilton choseWilliam Coleman as his first editor.[14]: 74
The most notable 19th-centuryEvening Post editor was theabolitionist and poetWilliam Cullen Bryant.[14]: 90 So well respected was theEvening Post under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopherJohn Stuart Mill, in 1864.[16] In addition to literary and drama reviews,William Leggett began to write political editorials for thePost. Leggett's espoused a fierce opposition tocentral banking and support for the organization of labor unions. He was a member of theEqual Rights Party. In 1831, he became a co-owner and editor of thePost,[17][18] eventually working as sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe in 1834 and 1835.[18]
One of the co-owners of the paper during this period wasJohn Bigelow.[19] Born inMalden-on-Hudson, New York, Bigelow graduated in 1835 from Union College, where he was a member of theSigma Phi Society and the Philomathean Society,[20] and was admitted to the bar in 1838.[19] From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of theEvening Post.[19] Another owner with Bryant and Bigelow was Isaac Henderson.[21] In 1877, this led to the involvement of his sonIsaac Henderson Jr., who became the paper's publisher, stockholder, and member of its board, just five years after graduating from college.[22] Henderson Sr.'s 33-year tenure with theEvening Post ended in 1879, when it was learned that he had defrauded Bryant the entire time.[21] Henderson Jr. sold his interest in the newspaper in 1881.[22]
In 1881,Henry Villard took control of theEvening Post andThe Nation, which became thePost's weekly edition. With this acquisition, the paper was managed by the triumvirate ofCarl Schurz,Horace White, andEdwin L. Godkin.[23] When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor-in-chief.[24] White became editor-in-chief in 1899, and remained in that role until his retirement in 1903.[25][26] In 1897, both publications passed to the management of Villard's son,Oswald Garrison Villard,[27] a founding member of theNAACP;[28] he was also a founder of theAmerican Anti-Imperialist League.[14]: 257
Villard sold the newspaper in 1918 following widespread allegations of pro-German sympathies duringWorld War I hurt the newspaper's circulation. The new owner wasThomas Lamont, a senior partner in theWall Street firm ofJ.P. Morgan & Co. Unable to stem the paper's financial losses, he sold it to aconsortium of 34 financial and reform political leaders, headed byEdwin Francis Gay, dean of theHarvard Business School, whose members includedFranklin D. Roosevelt. In 1924, conservativeCyrus H. K. Curtis,[29] publisher of theLadies Home Journal, purchased theEvening Post,[30] and briefly turned it into a non-sensationaltabloid nine years later, in 1933.[30]
In 1928,Wilella Waldorf became drama editor at theEvening Post. She was one of the first women to hold an editorial role at the newspaper,[31] During her time at theEvening Post, she was the only female first-string critic on a New York newspaper.[32] She was preceded byClara Savage Littledale, the first woman reporter ever hired by thePost and the editor of the woman's page in 1914.[33] In 1934,J. David Stern purchased the paper, changed its name to theNew York Post,[30] and restored its broadsheet size and liberal perspective.[14]: 292 For four months of that same year, futureU.S. Senator fromAlaskaErnest Gruening was an editor of the paper. In 1939,Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper. Her husbandGeorge Backer was named editor and publisher.[34] Her second editor and third husbandTed Thackrey became co-publisher and co-editor with Schiff in 1942.[35] Together, they recast the newspaper into its modern-day tabloid format.[14]: 556
In 1945,The Bronx Home News merged with it.[36] In 1949,James Wechsler became editor of the paper, running both the news and the editorial pages. In 1961, he turned over the news section to Paul Sann and stayed on as editorial page editor until 1980. Under Schiff's tenure thePost was seen to have liberal tilt, supporting trade unions and social welfare, and featured some of the most popular columnists of the time, such asJoseph Cookman,Drew Pearson,Eleanor Roosevelt,Max Lerner,Murray Kempton,Pete Hamill, andEric Sevareid, theater criticRichard Watts Jr., and gossip columnistEarl Wilson. In November 1976, it was announced that AustralianRupert Murdoch had bought thePost from Schiff with the intention that Schiff would be retained as a consultant for five years.[37] In 2005, it was reported that Murdoch bought the newspaper for US$30.5 million.[7]
ThePost at this point was the only surviving afternoon daily in New York City and its circulation under Schiff had grown by two-thirds, particularly after the failure of the competingWorld Journal Tribune; however, the rising cost of operating an afternoon daily in a city with worsening daytime traffic congestion, combined with mounting competition from expanded local radio and TV news cut into thePost's profitability, although it made money from 1949 until Schiff's final year of ownership, when it lost $500,000. The paper has lost money ever since.[14]: 74 In late October 1995, thePost announced plans to change its Monday through Saturday publication schedule and begin issuing a Sunday edition,[38] which it last published briefly in 1989.[39] On April 14, 1996, thePost delivered its new Sunday edition at the cost of 50 cents per paper by keeping its size to 120 pages.[40] The amount, significantly less than Sunday editions fromThe New York Daily News andThe New York Times, was part of thePost's efforts "to find a niche in the nation's most competitive newspaper market".[41][40]
Because of the institution of federal regulations limiting mediacross-ownership after Murdoch's purchase of WNEW-TV, which is nowWNYW, and four other stations fromMetromedia to launch theFox Broadcasting Company, Murdoch was forced to sell the paper for $37.6 million in 1988, equivalent to $100 million in 2024,[6] toPeter S. Kalikow, a real-estate magnate with no experience in the media industry.[42] In 1988, thePost hiredJane Amsterdam, founding editor ofManhattan, inc., as its first female editor, and within six months the paper had toned down the sensationalist headlines.[43] Within a year, Amsterdam was forced out by Kalikow, who reportedly told her "credible doesn't sell...Your big scoops are great, but they don't sell more papers."[44]
In 1993, after Kalikow declared bankruptcy,[42] the paper was temporarily managed bySteven Hoffenberg,[42] a financier who later pleaded guilty tosecuritiesfraud,[45] and for two weeks byAbe Hirschfeld,[46] who made his fortune building parking garages. Following a staff revolt against the Hoffenberg-Hirschfeld partnership, which included publication of an issue whose front page featured the iconic masthead picture of founderAlexander Hamilton with a single teardrop running down his cheek,[47][48] thePost was again purchased in 1993 by Murdoch's News Corporation. This came about after numerous political officials, including Democratic governor of New YorkMario Cuomo, persuaded theFederal Communications Commission to grant Murdoch a permanent waiver from the cross-ownership rules that had forced him to sell the paper five years earlier. Without this FCC ruling, the paper would have shut down.[42]
In December 2012, Murdoch announced that Jesse Angelo had been appointed publisher.[49] Various branches of Murdoch's media groups,21st Century Fox'sEndemol Shine North America, andNews Corp'sNew York Post created aPage Six TV nightly gossip show based on and named after thePost's gossip section. A test run in July would occur onFox Television Stations.[50] The show garnered the highest ratings of a nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in a decade when it debuted in 2017.[51] WithPage Six TV's success, theNew York Post formed New York Post Entertainment, a scripted and unscripted television entertainment division, in July 2018 with Troy Searer as president.[52]
In 2017, theNew York Post was reported to be the preferred newspaper of PresidentDonald Trump,[53][54] who maintains frequent contact with its owner Murdoch.[54] ThePost promoted Trump's celebrity since at least the 1980s.[55] In October 2020, thePost endorsed Trump for re-election, citing his "promises made, promises kept" policy.[56] Weeks after Trump was defeated andsought to overturn the election results, thePost published a front-page editorial, asking Trump to "stop the insanity", stating that he was "cheering for an undemocratic coup", writing, "If you insist on spending your final days in office threatening to burn it all down, that will be how you are remembered. Not as a revolutionary, but as the anarchist holding the match." ThePost characterized Trump attorneySidney Powell as a "crazy person", and his former national security advisorMichael Flynn's suggestion to declare martial law as "tantamount to treason."[57][58]
In January 2021, Keith Poole, a top editor atThe Sun, another Murdoch-owned tabloid, was appointed as the editor in chief of theNew York Post Group.[59][60][61] Around the same time, at least eight journalists had left the paper.[61] In January 2025,Tubi released aNew York Post documentary aboutLuigi Mangione titledNew York Post Presents: Luigi Mangione Monster or Martyr?[62][63]
ThePost has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch's ownership forsensationalism, blatantadvocacy, andconservative bias. In 1980, theColumbia Journalism Review stated that the "New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem—a force for evil."[64] ThePost has been accused of contorting its news coverage to suit Murdoch's business needs, in particular avoiding subjects which could be unflattering to the government of thePeople's Republic of China, where Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television.[65]
In a 2019 article inThe New Yorker,Ken Auletta wrote that Murdoch "doesn't hesitate to use thePost to belittle his business opponents", and went on to say that Murdoch's support forEdward I. Koch while he was running for mayor of New York "spilled over onto the news pages of thePost, with the paper regularly publishing glowing stories about Koch and sometimes savage accounts of his four primary opponents."[66]
According toThe New York Times,Ronald Reagan's campaign team credited Murdoch and thePost for his victory in New York in the1980 U.S. presidential election.[67] Reagan later "waived a prohibition against owning a television station and a newspaper in the same market", allowing Murdoch to continue to control theNew York Post andThe Boston Herald while expanding into television.
In 1997,Post executive editorSteven D. Cuozzo responded to criticism by saying that thePost "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda."[68] In a 2004 survey conducted byPace University, thePost was rated the least-credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible).[69]
ThePost commonly publishes news reports based entirely on reporting from other sources without independent corroboration. In January 2021, the paper forbade the use ofCNN,MSNBC,The Washington Post, andThe New York Times as sole sources for such stories.[70] Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo's 2024 history was titled "Paper of Wreckage" after staffers' nickname for thePost, which was a pun on the term "paper of record".[71]
Murdoch imported the style of many of his Australian and British newspapers, such asThe Sun, which remains one of the highest selling daily newspapers in the United Kingdom. This style, known astabloid journalism,[72] by thePost's famous headlines such as "Headless body in topless bar" (written byVincent Musetto). In its 35th-anniversary edition,New York magazine listed this as one of the greatest headlines. It also has five otherPost headlines in its "Greatest Tabloid Headlines" list.[73] ThePost has also been criticized for incendiary front-page headlines, such as one referring to the co-chairmen of theIraq Study Group—James Baker andLee Hamilton—as "surrender monkeys",[74] and another on the murder of landlordMenachem Stark reading "Slumlord found burned in dumpster. Who didn't want him dead?"[75]
ThePost's influential gossip sectionPage Six began in 1977.[76] Created byJames Brady,[77] it was famous for itsblind items. Beginning in 1985, columnistRichard Johnson edited Page Six for 25 years[78] before British journalistEmily Smith replaced him in 2009.[79] In June 2022, Smith was replaced by her deputy, Ian Mohr.[80] February 2006 saw the debut ofPage Six Magazine, distributed free inside the paper. In September 2007, it started to be distributed weekly in the Sunday edition of the paper. In January 2009, publication ofPage Six Magazine was cut to four times a year.[81]
Beginning with the 2017–18 television season, a dailysyndicated series known asPage Six TV came to air, produced by20th Television, which was part of the21st Century Fox side of Rupert Murdoch's holdings, andEndemol Shine North America. The show was originally hosted by comedianJohn Fugelsang, with contributions from Page Six andPost writers (including Carlos Greer), along with regular panelistsElizabeth Wagmeister fromVariety andBevy Smith. In March 2018, Fugelsang left the show, with the expectation that a new host would be named, although by the end of the season it was announced that Wagmeister, Greer and Smith would be retained as equal co-hosts.[82] In April 2019, it was confirmed that the series would end after May 2019; by then, it was last in average viewership out of all U.S. syndicated newsmagazine programs, behind the similar tabloid-inspired programDaily Mail TV.[83]
Richard Jewell, a security guard wrongly suspected of being theCentennial Olympic Park bomber, sued thePost in 1998, alleging that the newspaper had libeled him in several articles, headlines, photographs, andeditorial cartoons. U.S. District JudgeLoretta Preska largely denied thePost's motion to dismiss, allowing the suit to proceed.[84] ThePost subsequently settled the case for an undisclosed sum.[85]
In several stories on the day of the 2013Boston Marathon bombing, thePost inaccurately reported that twelve people had died, and that aSaudi national had been taken into custody as a suspect, which was denied by theBoston Police Department.[86][87] Three days later, on April 18, thePost featured a full-page cover photo of two young men at the Boston marathon with the headline "Bag Men" (a term that implies criminality) and erroneously claimed they were being sought by police.[87][88][89] The men, Salaheddin Barhoum and Yassine Zaimi, were not considered suspects, and thePost was heavily criticized for the apparent accusation.[88][90] Then-editorCol Allan defended the story, saying they had not referred to the men as "suspects".[88][91] The two men later sued thePost forlibel,[92][93][94] and the suit was settled in 2014 on undisclosed terms.[95][96][97]
In 1989, thePost described the five black and Latino teenagers arrested followingthe rape and assault of a white woman in Central Park as coming "from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference, and ignorance ... a land of no fathers", and having set out "to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape" people who were "rich" and "white".[98][99][100] The teenagers' convictions were later overturned after the confession of a serial rapist, which was confirmed with DNA evidence.
In 2009, thePost ran a cartoon bySean Delonas of a white police officer saying to another white police officer who has just shot achimpanzee on the street, "They'll have to find someone else to write the nextstimulus bill."[101] Comparing Obama, a Black president, to a chimpanzee was criticized asracist,[101] with civil rights activistAl Sharpton calling the cartoon "troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys".[102] New York Post chairman Rupert Murdoch apologized but said the cartoon was only meant to mock a piece of legislation.[103] ThePublic Enemy song "A Letter to theNew York Post" from their albumApocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black is a complaint about what they believed to be negative and inaccurate coverage Black people received from the paper.[104]
In 2019, thePost displayed an image of the World Trade Center in flames targeting Rep.Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. The image had been displayed due to Ms. Omar's widely criticized quote "Some people did something" which was viewed by many as insensitive and minimizing the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.[105] The Yemeni American Merchant Association announced a formal boycott of the paper and ten of the most prominent Yemenibodega owners in New York agreed to stop selling the paper. As of June 2019, the boycott had extended to over 900 individual stores.[106] Yemeni-Americans own about half of the 10,000 bodegas in New York City.[107]
On October 14, 2020, three weeks before the2020 United States presidential election, thePost published a front-page story purporting to reveal "smoking gun" emails recovered from alaptop abandoned byHunter Biden at a computer repair store inWilmington, Delaware.[108] The only sources named in the story were Trump personal attorneyRudy Giuliani and strategy advisorSteve Bannon.[108] The story came under heavy criticism from other news sources and anonymous reporters at thePost itself for "flimsy" reporting, including questions about the reliability of its sourcing and the lack of outreach to either Hunter Biden or theJoe Biden campaign for pre-publication comment.[109][110]
In October 2020, over fifty former U.S. intelligence officials signed an open letter stating that they were "deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role" in the story, but emphasized that "we do not know if the emails ... are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement."[111][112]John Ratcliffe, theDirector of National Intelligence, said during aFox News interview that "the intelligence community doesn't believe that [the emails originated from Russian disinformation] because there is no intelligence that supports that."[113] Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist, had previously made public assertions that contradicted professional intelligence assessments.[114]
TheFBI took possession of the laptop in late 2019 and reported that they had "nothing to add" to Ratcliffe's remarks concerning Russian disinformation.[115]The New York Times reported days after thePost story that "no concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation". Amid mounting pressure, the FBI wrote to U.S. SenatorRon Johnson, suggesting it had not found any Russian disinformation on the laptop. It was unclear whatJustice Department officials knew about the FBI investigation at the time.[115] Fox News reported that the laptop was seized as part of an investigation into money laundering, but did not make clear if the investigation involved Hunter Biden.[116] On December 9, 2020,The New York Times reported that investigators had initially examined possible money laundering by Hunter Biden but did not find evidence to justify further investigation.[117]
Following the2016 U.S. presidential election, social media companies were criticized for allowing false political information to proliferate on their platforms, including from Russian intelligence, suggesting it may have assisted Trump's election.[118]Twitter andFacebook initially limited the spread of the 2020Post story on their platforms, citing supposed policies restricting the sharing of hacked material and personal information; Twitter also temporarily suspended thePost's account. This decision proved controversial, with many critics, including Republican senatorTed Cruz, deriding it as censorship.[119][120] NPR reported that Twitter initially declined to comment how it reached this decision or what evidence it had supporting this.[120]The New York Times initially reported that the story had been pitched to other outlets, including Fox News, which declined to publish it due to concerns over its reliability.[10]
TheTimes also reported that two writers at thePost declined to have their names attached to the story, and ultimately the story only listed two bylines, Gabrielle Fonrouge, who "had little to do with the reporting or writing of the article" and was unaware of her byline prior to the story's publication, and Emma-Jo Morris, a former producer for Fox News'sHannity who had no prior bylines with thePost. In response to the concerns about the veracity of the article, retiredPost editor-in-chief and current advisorCol Allan responded in an email to theNew York Times that "the senior editors atThe Post made the decision to publish the Biden files after several days' hard work established its merit."[10] Giuliani said he gave the story to thePost because "either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out."[10] The accuracy of the Hunter Biden laptop story resulted in increased scrutiny of Twitter and Facebook limiting the spread of the story by conservatives, who argued that their actions "proves Big Tech's bias".[121][122]
On October 30, 2020,NBC News reported, "no evidence has emerged that the documents are the product of Russian disinformation, as some experts initially suggested, but many questions remain about how the materials got into the hands of Trump's lawyerRudy Giuliani, who had met with Russian agents in his effort to dig up dirt on Biden."[123] On March 15, 2021,CNN reported that Giuliani and other Trump allies met with Ukrainian lawmakerAndrii Derkach, who the U.S. government later assessed was a longtime Russian intelligence agent, sanctioning him for distributing disinformation about President Biden.[124]
On March 27, 2022,Vox reported that no evidence had emerged that "the laptop's leak was a Russian plot".[125] In March 2022,The New York Times andThe Washington Post confirmed that some of the emails were authentic.[126][125][127] In April 2022, the editorial board ofThe Washington Post wrote the Biden laptop story provided "an opportunity for a reckoning" by American media to ensure "accurate and relevant" stories are covered. They noted:
The investigation adds new details and confirms old ones about the ways in which Joe Biden's family has profited from trading overseas on his name—something for which the president deserves criticism for tacitly condoning. What it does not do, despite some conservatives' insistence otherwise, is prove that President Biden acted corruptly.[128]
On April 28, 2022,Joan Donovan, the research director of theShorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy atHarvard University, said that "This is arguably the most well-known story theNew York Post has ever published and it endures as a story because it was initially suppressed by social media companies and jeered by politicians and pundits alike".[121]
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In 1997, a national news story concerningRebecca Sealfon's victory in theScripps National Spelling Bee circulated. Sealfon was sponsored by theDaily News, a direct in-market competitor. ThePost published a picture of her but altered the photograph to remove the name of theDaily News as printed on a placard she was wearing.[129] In 2004, thePost ran a full-page cover photo of 19-year-oldNew York University student Diana Chien jumping to her death from the twenty-fourth story of a building. University spokesman John Beckman commented "it seems to show an appalling lack of judgment and insensitivity to the young woman's family and a disregard for the feelings of students at NYU."[130]
In 2012, thePost was criticized for running a photograph of a man struggling to climb back up onto asubway platform as a train approached, along with the headline "DOOMED".[131][132][133] Facing questions over why he did not help the man, the photographer claimed he was not strong enough and had been attempting to use the flash on his camera to alert the driver of the oncoming train.[134] In December 2020, thePost published a story outing anemergency medical technician who made additional income from posting explicit photographs of herself to the subscription websiteOnlyFans.[135][136] The publication was widely criticized on social media as "doxxing someone simply for trying to earn a living."[135]
In April 2021, Facebook blocked users from sharing aPost story about home real estate purchases byBlack Lives Matter co-founderPatrisse Cullors, saying that it violated its privacy and personal information policy.[137][138] In response, thePost argued that it was an arbitrary decision since other newspapers, magazines and websites highlight the real estate purchases of high status individuals.[139]News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern also voiced criticism of the decision, saying in a prepared statement: "There is no balance of power between 'media' and 'Big Tech.'"[140]
In April 2021, thePost published a false front-page story asserting that copies of a book by Vice PresidentKamala Harris were being distributed to migrant children at an intake facility in Long Beach, California.[141] Fox News then published a story about the matter, followed by numerous Republican politicians and pundits commenting on it, in some cases speculating that taxpayers were funding the supposed book handouts for Harris's personal profit.[141][142] Responding to questions from Fox News correspondentPeter Doocy, White House press secretaryJen Psaki expressed no knowledge of the matter; thePost then published a new story headlined "Psaki has no answers when asked about Harris' book being given to child migrants."[143] Four days after the original publication, thePost replaced the story with a new version clarifying that just one Harris book had been donated by a community member but maintained that it was an "open-arms gesture by the Biden administration", although there was no evidence of the administration's involvement.[143] Laura Italiano, the author of the story, resigned that day, asserting she had been "ordered" to write it.[61][143]
In October 2022, a rogue employee of thePost published a series of racist, violent and sexually explicit headlines on its Twitter account. Shortly after these headlines appeared, a spokesperson for thePost stated that the "vile and reprehensible" headlines were the result of ahack and were immediately removed, and that the incident was under investigation. The spokesperson later stated that "the unauthorized conduct was committed by an employee, and the employee has been terminated."[144] In May 2023, amid reports that a wave of migrants might soon cross the American southern border, thePost ran a front-page story stating that 20 homeless veterans had been ordered to vacateupstate New York hotels to make room for arriving migrants. Fox News and other conservative outlets sent the story viral, with numerous conservatives expressing outrage atPresident Joe Biden and other Democrats. The story was soon found to have been fabricated by a local veterans advocate.[145][146]
While attending a June 2024G7 Summit in Italy, G7 leaders watched an exhibition of military parachutists jump from aircraft and land nearby. After the exhibition, President Joe Biden stepped away from the group to approach some parachutists to speak and give them a thumbs-up. ThePost tweeted a cropped version of a video that did not show the parachutists, creating a false impression that Biden had wandered off in confusion. The paper ran a full front-page story the next day, asserting "Biden embarrasses US with confused wanderings at world conference".Fox News ran a segment on thePost story, displaying the front-page on air.The Washington Post factchecker assigned the storyFour Pinocchios, designating it as an outright lie.[147][148]
In September 2024, theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel found that several of theNew York Post's stories about Wisconsin politics had been authored by an individual with no clear previous journalism experience and extensive ties to thestate's Republican Party. These included two recent 2024 stints completing consulting work for that party; 2023 consulting work forDan Kelly, a conservative state Supreme Court candidate; and being the campaign manager for a stateAssembly campaign in 2024.[149]
TheNew York Post was established in 1801 byAlexander Hamilton making it the oldest still published daily newspaper in the US.[150] However, it is not the oldest continuously published paper, as theNew York Post halted publication during strikes in 1958 andin 1978. If this is considered,The Providence Journal is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the US.[151] TheHartford Courant is generally understood to be the oldest newspaper in America, as it was founded in 1764; however, it was founded as a semi-weekly paper and did not begin publishing daily until 1836, 35 years after theNew York Post began doing so.[152]
The 1906Old New York Evening Post Building is a designated landmark. It was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1977.[153] It occupied the building until 1926 when a new main office for thePost was established at 75 West Street in theNew York Evening Post Building. The building remained in use by thePost until 1970, it was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 2000.[153]
In 1967, Schiff bought 210 South Street, the former headquarters of theNew York Journal American, which closed a year earlier. The building became an instantly recognizable symbol for thePost. In 1995, ownerRupert Murdoch relocated thePost's news and business offices to theNews Corporation headquarters tower at 1211Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in midtown Manhattan. ThePost shares this building withFox News Channel andThe Wall Street Journal, which are also owned by Murdoch. Both thePost and the New York City edition of theJournal are printed at a state-of-the-art printing plant inThe Bronx.[154] TheNewspaper and Mail Deliverers Union has delivered the newspaper "since the early 1900s".[155]
In 1996, theNew York Post launched anInternet version of the paper.[156][157]
TheNew York Post launched the websiteDecider in 2014 to provide recommendations for streaming services. The website's first and only editor-in-chief is Mark Graham.[158][159] Graham said that this service would "strike a nice balance between visual imagery and the written word, and come from a place of pop culture omniscience."[160] In 2019,Decider signed a deal with app providerReelgood to provide Reelgood widget links at the bottom of each review and would channel some advertising revenue to both companies. The value of the deal was not disclosed.[161]
The daily circulation of thePost decreased in the final years of the Schiff era from 700,000 around 1967–68, to approximately 517,000 by the time she sold the paper to Murdoch in 1976.[37] Under Murdoch, thePost launched a morning edition to compete directly with the rival tabloidDaily News in 1978, prompting theDaily News to retaliate with a PM edition calledDaily News Tonight. But the PM edition suffered the same problems with worsening daytime traffic that the afternoonPost experienced and theDaily News ultimately foldedTonight in 1981.[162] By that time, circulation of the all-dayPost soared to a peak of 962,000, the bulk of the increase attributed to its morning edition (It set a single-day record of 1.1 million on August 11, 1977, with the news of the arrest the night before ofDavid Berkowitz, the infamous "Son of Sam" serial killer who terrorized New York for much of that summer).
ThePost and theDaily News have been locked in a bitter circulation war ever since. A resurgence during the first decade of the 21st century sawPost circulation rise to 724,748 by April 2007,[163] achieved partly by lowering the price from 50 cents to 25 cents. In October 2006, thePost surpassed theDaily News in circulation for the first time, only to see theDaily News overtake its rival a few months later.[164] In 2010, thePost's daily circulation was 525,004, just 10,000 behind theDaily News.[165] As of 2017,[update] thePost was the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, while theDaily News was ranked eighth.[166]
ThePost has remained unprofitable since Murdoch first purchased it from Dorothy Schiff in 1976, and was on the brink of folding when Murdoch bought it back in 1993, with at least one media report in 2012 indicating thatPost loses up to $70 million a year.[167] One commentator suggested that thePost cannot become profitable as long as the competingDaily News survives, and that Murdoch may be trying to force theDaily News to fold or sell out, leaving the two papers in an intractablewar of attrition.[168] In September 2022,The New York Post became profitable, posting a profit for the quarter and year to date.[169] ThePost's digital network reached approximately 198 million unique users in June 2022, compared to 123 million in the prior year.[170]
Meanwhile, social media companies were facing their own second-guessing about the 2016 election from outside critics and their own employees. Many argued that misinformation spreading unchecked (or algorithmically assisted) on these platforms, some circulated by Russia, helped Trump win. So they, like many journalists, hoped to do things differently should a similar situation arise in 2020.
no evidence has emerged to back up suspicions from former intelligence officials, backed by Biden himself, that the laptop's leak was a Russian plot.
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