The New York Post is the 4th largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher reaching over 57 million unique visitors in the US in January 2017. The The New York Post also operates the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, Decider.com's entertainment site, and co-produces TV Sixth's TV shows, which get the highest ratings from a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine in a decade when it debuted in 2017.
Founded in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected sheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post . The modern version of this paper is published in tabloid format. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought Post for US $ 30.5 million. Since 1993, Post has been owned by News Corporation and its successor, News Corp, which had owned it from 1976 to 1988. Its editorial office is located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue).
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History
The New York Post , founded on 16 November 1801, as the New York Times Evening Post, describes itself as the nation's oldest continuously published every day newspaper. The Providence Journal , which started its daily publication on July 21, 1829, also puts itself as the oldest daily newspaper published continuously because the New York Post stops publication during a strike in the year 1958 and 1978. The Hartford Courant , is believed to be the oldest newspaper published continuously, founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper; it did not publish daily until 1836. The New Hampshire Gazette , which had its trademark claim to be The Oldest Nationspaper , was founded in 1756 as a weekly. Since the 1890s it has been published only on weekends.
19th century
The Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US $ 10,000 from a group of investors in the fall of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post , a wide sheet. Hamilton's Ko-investors include other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who are disappointed by Thomas Jefferson's election as US President and the growing popularity of the Democratic Party-Republic. The meeting in which Hamilton first recruited investors for a new paper took place at a then-later-country villa weekend of Gracie Mansion. Hamilton chose William Coleman as his first editor.
The most famous of the 19th Century New-York Evening Post editor was poet and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. The most respected is the New York Post under the editor Bryant, receiving praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in 1864.
In the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write a paper. There, in addition to the literary and drama reviews, Leggett began writing political editorials. Leggett's classical liberal philosophy requires a fierce opposition to central banking, support for voluntary unions, and a dedication to the laissez-faire economy. He is a member of the Equal Rights Party. Leggett became a co-owner and editor at Post in 1831, eventually working as the sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe from 1834 to 1835.
Another owner of this paper is John Bigelow. Born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York, John Bigelow, Sr. graduated in 1835 from Union College, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and Philomathean Society, and was accepted in the bar in 1838. From 1849 to 1861 he was one of the editors and associates of the New York Evening Post .
In 1881 Henry Villard took over the New York Post, as well as The Nation , which became a weekly edition of '. With this acquisition, this paper is administered by Carl Schurz, Horace White, and Edwin L. Godkin. When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor in chief. White became editor-in-chief in 1899, and remained in that role until his retirement in 1903.
In 1897, the two publications were forwarded to the management of Villard's son, Oswald Garrison Villard, founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.
1918 to 1976
Villard sold newspapers in 1918, after extensive allegations of pro-German sympathy during World War I injured his circulation. The new owner is Thomas Lamont, senior partner in Wall Street company, J.P. Morgan & amp; Co.. Unable to stem the financial loss of paper, he sold it to a consortium of 34 political and financial reform leaders, led by Edwin Francis Gay, dean of Harvard Business School, whose members include Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Conservative Cyrus H. K. Curtis - publisher of Ladies Home Journal - bought the New York-York Evening Post in 1924 and briefly transformed it into a non-sensational tabloid in 1933.
In 1934, J. David Stern bought papers, changed his name to New York Post , and restored the size of his large sheet and liberal perspective.
In 1939, Dorothy Schiff bought the paper. Her husband, George Backer, was named editor and publisher. The second editor (and third husband) Ted Thackrey became co-publisher and co-editor with Schiff in 1942. Together, they reorganized the newspaper into its current tabloid format. In 1948 The Bronx Home News joined him. In 1949, James Wechsler became editor of the paper, running both news and editorial pages. In 1961, he submitted the news section to Paul Sann and remained editor page editor until 1980.
Under the term Schiff Post was devoted to liberalism, supporting trade unions and social welfare, and featured some of the most popular columnists of the time, such as Joseph Cookman, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Max Lerner, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, and Eric Sevareid, in addition to theater critic Richard Watts, Jr. and the gossip columnist, Earl Wilson.
Murdoch Ownership
In November 1976, it was announced that Rupert Murdoch had purchased Schiff's "Post" with the intention that he would remain a consultant for five years. Then it emerged that Murdoch bought a newspaper for US $ 30.5 million. The Post at this point is the only surviving afternoon in New York City and its circulation under Schiff has grown two-thirds, especially after the failure of the World Journal Tribune. However, the increasing daily operational costs of the afternoon in the city with increasingly severe traffic congestion, combined with increased competition from expanded local radio and TV news cut into Post ' s profitability, despite making money from 1949 until the last year of Schiff's ownership, when it lost $ 500,000. Paper has lost money since then.
At the end of October 1995, Post announced plans to change the publication schedule Monday through Saturday and began publishing the Sunday edition, which was last published briefly in 1989. On April 14, 1996, Post deliver a new Sunday edition at a cost of 50 cents per paper by keeping the size up to 120 pages. The amount, far less than the Sunday edition of The Daily News and The New York Times, is part of Post '
In December 2012, Murdoch announced that Jesse Angelo had been appointed as a publisher.
Style
Murdoch imports the tabloid-style journalism of many Australian and British newspapers, such as The Sun , which remains the highest-selling daily newspaper in Britain. This style is marked by famous Title ' like "Headless body in topless bar" (shown on the right, written by Vincent Musetto who died in June 2015). In the 35th anniversary edition, New York magazine records this as one of the greatest news. It also has five other Post i headlines in its "Largest Tabloid Headline" list.
Since the federal regulatory agency restricted cross-media ownership after the purchase of Murdoch WNEW-TV (now WNYW-TV) and four other stations from Metromedia to launch Fox Broadcasting Company, Murdoch was forced to sell the paper for $ 37.6 million in 1988 to Peter S. Kalikow, a real estate king with no news experience. In 1988, The Post hired Jane Amsterdam, founder of the editor of Manhattan, inc. , as the first female editor, and within six months the paper has softened the sensational news. Within a year, Amsterdam was forced out by Kalikow, who reportedly said "unsold credible... your huge spoon is amazing, but they do not sell any more paper."
When Kalikow declared bankruptcy in 1993, the newspaper was temporarily run by Steven Hoffenberg, a financier who later pleaded guilty to securities fraud; and, for two weeks, by Abe Hirschfeld, who made his fortune of building a parking garage. After staff rebelled against the Hoffenberg-Hirschfeld partnership - which included the issue issue whose front page featured a masthead image of iconic founder Alexander Hamilton with a tear drop running down his cheek - Post was again purchased in 1993 by News Corporation Murdoch. This came after many political officials, including New York Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo, persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to grant Murdoch a permanent abandonment of the cross-ownership rule that forced him to sell paper five years earlier. Without the FCC rules, the newspapers will be closed. Under Murdoch's new direction, the paper continued its conservative editorial standpoint.
Criticism
The Post has been criticized since Murdoch's early possession for sensationalism, blatant advocacy, and conservative bias. In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review stated that the New York Post is no longer just a matter of journalism, it's a social issue - the power of evil. "
Perhaps the most serious allegation against Post is that he is willing to alter news coverage to fit Murdoch's business needs, in particular that the paper has avoided reporting anything unattractive to the government of the People's Republic. China, where Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television.
Critics say that Posting allows the editorial position to shape its story selection and news coverage. Former Post executive editor Steven D. Cuozzo has replied that the Post breaks the elitist media pressure on the national agenda. "
According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, Post was rated as the least credible news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet for receiving more responses called it "not credible" rather than credible. % not credible up to 39% credible).
Public Enemy's song "A Letter to the New York Post" from their album Apocalypse '91... The Enemy Strikes Black is a complaint about what they believe to be negative and black coverage which is not accurate received from the newspaper.
Coverage ' about the killing of owner of the Hasidic Menachem Stark house prompted anger from Jewish communal leaders and community leaders.
Controversy
Posts and Daily News often take a breakthrough on the work and accuracy of each, especially in their respective gossip page items.
In certain editions of the newspaper dated February 14, 2007, an article referring to Senator Hillary Clinton's support base for his 2008 presidential election referred to Senator Barack Obama as "Osama"; the paper realized its mistake and corrected it for later editions and websites. Post recorded an error and apologized in the Feb. 15, 2007 edition. Previously, on January 20, 2007, Post received some criticism for running potentially misleading information, "'Osama' Mud Flies at Obama ", for a story that discusses rumors that Obama has been raised as a Muslim and hides it.
Influence
In 2017, New York Post was reported to be the US presidential elected newspaper Donald Trump, who often made contact with its owner, Rupert Murdoch.
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Website
In 1996, New York Post launched an Internet version of the paper. The original site includes photos and colored sections that are broken into News, Sports, Editorials, Gossip, Entertainment, and Business. It also has archives for the last seven days. Since then, it has been redesigned several times, with its latest incarnation launched in September 2013.
The current website also features updated news; content opinions, entertainment, business, technology, media, fashion, and sports; photo and video galleries; original video Post ; and streaming video for live events.
In 2014, Posting launches the website Decider. Decider provides recommendations for streaming services.
Highlights
This paper is famous for the sports section, which has been praised for its completeness; started in the backyard, and among other coverage, contains columns about sports in the media by Phil Mushnick.
New York Post is also famous for its gossip columnist, Cindy Adams.
Page Six
The most famous gossip section is " Page Six ". It was created by James Brady and is currently edited by Emily Smith (although it no longer really appears on the pages of six tabloids). Columnist Richard Johnson edited Page Six for 25 years. February 2006 saw the debut of Page Six Magazine , distributed free on paper. In September 2007, it began to be distributed weekly in the Sunday edition of the paper. In January 2009, publishing Page Six Magazine was cut four times a year. Daily web content published at www.pagesix.com.
Starting with the 2017-18 television season, the daily syndication series known as Page Six TV is broadcast, produced by 20th Television, which is part of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox side. The event is hosted by comedian John Fugelsang, with contributions from the authors of Page Six and Post (including Carlos Greer), along with the usual panellist Elizabeth Wagmeister of Variety i> and Bevy Smith. In March 2018, Page Six TV announced it was looking for a new host. Sales
The Daily Circulation Post declined in the final years of the Schiff era from 700,000 in the late 1960s to about 418,000 by the time he sold newspapers to Murdoch in 1976. Under Murdoch, Post > launched the morning edition to compete directly with rival tabloids Hours News in 1978 - encouraging Daily News to reply with the PM edition called Daily News Tonight > But the PM edition suffered the same problem with the worsening of daytime traffic experienced by afternoon Posts and Daily News finally folded Tonight in 1981. With that time, the circulation throughout the day Posts soared to the top of 962,000, most of the increase attributed to the morning edition (This set a one-day record of 1.1 million on August 11, 1977 with news of the arrest of the previous night David Berkowitz, chain "Son of Sam" who terrorized New York for much of that summer). But the Post lost so much money that Murdoch decided to close Posting ' s edition of PM in 1982, change the Post into one day every morning.
Post and Daily News have been locked in bitter war ever since. The awakening during the first decade of the 21st century saw the circulation
The Post remained unprofitable since Murdoch first bought it from Dorothy Schiff in 1976 - and was on the verge of folding when Murdoch bought it back in 1993, with at least one media report in 2012 showing that Post lost up to $ 70 million a year. A commentator has suggested that Posting can not be profitable during a competing > Daily News , and that Murdoch may be trying to force Daily News to fold or sell.
Recent headquarters
The New York Evening 1906 Evening Building is a designated landmark. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It occupied the building until 1926 when the new main office for Post was established at 75 West Street in the New York Evening Post Building. The building remained in use by Post until 1970, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. In 1967, Schiff bought 210 South Street, the former headquarters of New York. American Journal , which closed a year earlier. The building becomes an instantly recognizable symbol for Posting . In 1995, the owner of Rupert Murdoch moved the news agency and business Post ' to the News Corporation's headquarters tower at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in downtown Manhattan. Post shared this building with Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal , both also owned by Murdoch. Post and the New York City edition of Journal is printed at a state-of-the-art printing plant in The Bronx region.
Cultural reference
Vincent Musetto's 1983 headline inspired Peter Koper to write the American black comedy 1995 Headless Body in Topless Bar . Posts headlines have been featured in movies like Candidate Manchuria , North by Northwest and Working Girl .
See also
- New York City Media
References
Further reading
External links
- Official website
- Page Six
- Six TV Page
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