New York Post

The New York Post is one of the oldest (and according to some definitions, the oldest) newspapers still published in the United States. It was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801— as the New-York Evening Post, a broadsheet quite unlike today's tabloid. Early editorial work was done in the country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion. Hamilton chose for his first editor William Coleman, but the more famous 19th-century Evening Post editor was William Cullen Bryant, a strong Abolitionist. In 1881 Henry Villard took control of the Evening Post, which in 1897 passed to the management of his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, a founding member of both the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1933 the Post changed to tabloid format.Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper in 1939; her editor Ted Thackrey turned it into a streamlined tabloid format, then in 1977 was bought by Rupert Murdoch.

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The paper is also known for its sports section, which has been praised for its comprehensiveness; it begins on the back page. Some readers who have no use for its editorial positions or its hard news stories purchase it for its sports coverage alone.

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The New York Post is also well known for its gossip columnists Liz Smith, Cindy Adams and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz. The best known gossip section is 'Page Six', edited by Richard Johnson, which counterintuitively never runs on page six of the paper each day. It is reported that "Page Six" is the first thing many celebrities turn to each morning.

Related Topics:
Gossip - Liz Smith

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