New York Post

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The New York Post is a daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, making it one of the oldest continuously published papers in the US. It has been owned since 1976 by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which operates it from midtown Manhattan as a New York City tabloid with national digital reach via nypost.com and Page Six.

Print circulation runs around 150,000 daily but digital reach is far larger — nypost.com pulls roughly 100 million monthly visitors, driven by aggressive headline writing, celebrity coverage (Page Six), sports (Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Giants, Jets), New York crime, City Hall coverage and a steady stream of viral and political content. The paper is famous for its front-page wordplay ("Headless Body in Topless Bar") and for breaking some genuine scoops alongside a great deal of tabloid noise. The Post is consistently the second- or third-most-read paper in the US by circulation.

Ownership & funding

News Corp (Murdoch family). Funded primarily through ad-supported + subscription.

Ad-supported plus subscription with a tabloid format means the newsroom chases attention by design — the front page exists to move papers at newsstands and to generate social-share clicks online. Murdoch ownership has subsidized the Post through years of operating losses, which removes the normal commercial pressure that would have killed a money-losing tabloid decades ago, but creates clear owner-influence on political coverage and editorial line. The Page Six gossip operation and the political desk each operate as semi-independent fiefdoms with different incentive structures: gossip chases celebrity reach, the political desk chases conservative-audience engagement.

Where they land on the spectrum

nwsly's editorial team places New York Post at Right with a factuality rating of Mixed.

nwsly places New York Post at Right because the paper's headline selection, framing and column lineup consistently advance a conservative-populist worldview — anti-progressive on crime and policing, hostile to NYC's Democratic mayors when in office, skeptical of immigration, supportive of Donald Trump in news framing and not just on the op-ed page, and aggressive in surfacing stories that embarrass Democratic officials while soft-pedaling comparable Republican stories. The 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story originated here and the paper's framing of it set the tabloid's posture for the rest of the cycle.

Where the pattern breaks: the Post's local New York City reporting on subway crime, NYCHA dysfunction and city-government waste reads as straight metro-tabloid journalism that other outlets later confirm, and its sports and entertainment desks carry no political signal. The Mixed factuality rating reflects a long history of correction-worthy errors, sensational headlines that overstate sourced reporting, and occasional outright retractions — the Post breaks real stories and prints loose ones in roughly equal measure, and readers have to know which desk they're reading.

Editorial vs news side

Tabloid format with a thin but real news/opinion wall. The political desk reports stories with framing that often previews the editorial line; the editorial board and signed columnists (Miranda Devine, Karol Markowicz, Michael Goodwin) are explicitly conservative and frequently in lockstep with the news desk's choices. Page Six (gossip) and the sports section operate with their own editorial logic. For the bias rating the news pages and the opinion pages largely point the same direction, which is unusual for a major US daily and is part of why the composite lands at Right rather than Lean Right.

Why we include them in nwsly

Mid-market tabloid; NYC focus on news desk, right-leaning op-ed.

The New York Post gives nwsly the tabloid-conservative slot that mainstream Lean Right outlets like the WSJ news desk don't cover — New York street-level crime, NYC political corruption from a hostile vantage point, populist conservative framing of national stories, and Page Six celebrity news that genuinely drives the national conversation. It also surfaces stories first that other outlets later pick up reluctantly. Without it, nwsly's Right band would underweight the populist-tabloid worldview that drives a large slice of US conservative media consumption.

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