Editing New York Post (section)

==History==
===19th century===
{{Further|Alexander Hamilton}}
[[File:The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14765342825).jpg|thumb|The ''New York Post'' was founded in 1801 by [[Alexander Hamilton]], a [[Founding Father of the United States|Founding Father]] who [[George Washington]] appointed as the nation's first [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]].]]
[[File:William Coleman (1766-1829), New York Evening Post editor.jpg|thumb|Alexander Hamilton appointed [[William Coleman (editor)|William Coleman]] as the newspaper's first editor in 1801; Coleman served in that capacity until his death in 1829.]]
[[File:William Cullen Bryant.jpg|thumb|[[William Cullen Bryant]], the ''Post''{{'}}s most notable 19th-century editor]]
The ''Post'' was founded by [[Alexander Hamilton]] with about US$10,000 ({{Inflation|US|10000|1801|fmt=eq}}){{inflation/fn|US}} from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the ''New-York Evening Post'',<ref>Allan Nevins, ''The Evening Post: Century of Journalism'', Boni and Liveright, 1922, p. 17.</ref> a [[broadsheet]]. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the [[Federalist Party]], including [[Robert Troup]] and [[Oliver Wolcott]]<ref>Nevins, p. 14.</ref> who were dismayed by the election of [[Thomas Jefferson]] as [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] and the rise in popularity of the [[Democratic-Republican Party]].<ref name=emery>Emery & Emery</ref>{{rp|74}} At a meeting held at [[Archibald Gracie]]'s weekend villa, which is now [[Gracie Mansion]], Hamilton recruited the first investors for the new paper.<ref>Nevins, pp. 17–18.</ref> Hamilton chose [[William Coleman (editor)|William Coleman]] as his first editor.<ref name=emery />{{rp|74}}

The most notable 19th-century ''Evening Post'' editor was the poet and [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] [[William Cullen Bryant]].<ref name=emery />{{rp|90}} So well respected was the ''Evening Post'' under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher [[John Stuart Mill]], in 1864.<ref>Nevins, p. 341.</ref>

In addition to literary and drama reviews, [[William Leggett (writer)|William Leggett]] began to write political editorials for the ''Post''. Leggett's espoused a fierce opposition to [[central banking]] and support for the organization of labor unions. He was a member of the [[Locofocos|Equal Rights Party]]. In 1831, he became a co-owner and editor of the ''Post'',{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} eventually working as sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe in 1834 and 1835.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beckner |first1=Steve |title=Leggett |url=https://reason.com/1977/02/01/leggett/ |website=reason.com |date=February 1977 |publisher=Reason Foundation |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132245/https://reason.com/1977/02/01/leggett/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

One of the co-owners of the paper during this period was [[John Bigelow]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bigelow|title=John Bigelow {{!}} American diplomat|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=May 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502164925/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bigelow|archive-date=May 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Born in [[Malden-on-Hudson, New York]], Bigelow graduated in 1835 from Union College, where he was a member of the [[Sigma Phi]] Society and the Philomathean Society,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://schaffer.union.edu/bigelow/johnbigelow.html|title=Bigelow Correspondence Database|author=John Bigelow|website=schaffer.union.edu|access-date=May 2, 2019|archive-date=January 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132346/https://arches.union.edu/bigelow|url-status=live}}</ref> and was admitted to the bar in 1838.<ref name=":0" /> From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of the ''Evening Post''.<ref name=":0" /> 

Another owner with Bryan and Bigelow was Isaac Henderson.<ref name=":6">Mayer-Sommer, Alan P. (May 2010). "S[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1032373209359324 o many controls; so little control: The case of Isaac Henderson, Navy Agent at New York, 1861-4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132246/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1032373209359324|date=January 14, 2024}}". ''[[Accounting History]]''. '''15''' (2): 173–198. [[Doi (identifier)|doi]]:10.1177/1032373209359324. [[ISSN (identifier)|ISSN]] 1032-3732. [[S2CID (identifier)|S2CID]] 155059092. Retrieved July 15, 2020.</ref> In 1877, this led to the involvement of his son [[Isaac Henderson]] Jr., who became the paper's publisher, stockholder, and member of its board, just five years after graduating from college.<ref name=":7">"[[wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Isaac Austin Henderson|Isaac Austin Henderson]]", ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', vol. Volume 7, 1913, retrieved May 16, 2022</ref> Henderson Sr.'s 33-year tenure with the ''Evening Post'' ended in 1879, when it was learned that he had defrauded Bryant the entire time.<ref name=":6" /> Henderson Jr. sold his interest in the newspaper in 1881.<ref name=":7" />

In 1881, [[Henry Villard]] took control of the ''Evening Post'' and ''[[The Nation]]'', which became the ''Post''{{'}}s weekly edition. With this acquisition, the paper was managed by the triumvirate of [[Carl Schurz]], [[Horace White (writer)|Horace White]], and [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin|Edwin L. Godkin]].<ref>Nevins, p. 438.</ref> When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor-in-chief.<ref>Nevins, p. 458.</ref> White became editor-in-chief in 1899, and remained in that role until his retirement in 1903.<ref>"[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E1D71F31E733A05754C1A96F9C946796D6CF Horace White Dies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192338/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E1D71F31E733A05754C1A96F9C946796D6CF |date=March 3, 2016 }}," ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 17, 1916.</ref><ref>Nevins, pp. 440–441.</ref>

In 1897, both publications passed to the management of Villard's son, [[Oswald Garrison Villard]],<ref>''Webster's Biographical Dictionary'', G. & C. Miriam Co., 1964, p. 1522.</ref> a founding member of both the [[NAACP]]<ref>Christopher Robert Reed, ''The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966'', Indiana University Press, 1997, p. 10.</ref> and the [[American Anti-Imperialist League]].<ref name=emery />{{rp|257}}

===20th century===
[[File:SUBWAY RIDERS LOST IN THEIR OWN THOUGHTS AND READING THE NEWSPAPER ON THE LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE OF THE NEW YORK CITY... - NARA - 556666.jpg|thumb|A [[New York City Subway]] passenger reading the ''New York Post'' in April 1974]]
Villard sold the newspaper in 1918 following widespread allegations of pro-[[Nazi Germany|German]] sympathies during [[World War I]] hurt the newspaper's circulation. The new owner was [[Thomas W. Lamont|Thomas Lamont]], a senior partner in the [[Wall Street]] firm of [[J.P. Morgan & Co.]] Unable to stem the paper's financial losses, he sold it to a [[consortium]] of 34 financial and reform political leaders, headed by [[Edwin Francis Gay]], dean of the [[Harvard Business School]], whose members included [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. 

In 1924, [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[Cyrus H. K. Curtis]],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/NYNewspapers.html| title=New York Newspapers and Editors| access-date=June 7, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022190635/http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/NYNewspapers.html| archive-date=October 22, 2007| url-status=live}}</ref> publisher of the ''[[Ladies Home Journal]]'', purchased the ''Evening Post''<ref name=ketupa>{{cite web|url=http://www.ketupa.net/curtis.htm|title=ketupa.net media profiles: curtis|access-date=June 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061102224549/http://www.ketupa.net/curtis.htm|archive-date=November 2, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> and briefly turned it into a non-sensational [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid]] nine years later, in 1933.<ref name=ketupa/> 

In 1928, [[Wilella Waldorf]] became drama editor at the ''Evening Post''. She was one of the first women to hold an editorial role at the newspaper,<ref>''The New York Times'', March 13, 1946, p. 29 – Wilella Waldorf (obituary). Wilella Waldorf Dies Aged 46 (obituary)</ref> During her time at the ''Evening Post'', she was the only female first-string critic on a New York newspaper.<ref>Wilella Waldorf – encyclopedia.com</ref> She was preceded by [[Clara Littledale|Clara Savage Littledale]], the first woman reporter ever hired by the ''Post'' and the editor of the woman's page in 1914.<ref name="NAW">Littledale, Clara Savage. Edited by Barbara Sicherman, 1934– and Carol Hurd Green, 1935–; in Notable American Women: The Modern Period (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 458–459</ref>

In 1934, [[J. David Stern]] purchased the paper, changed its name to the ''New York Post'',<ref name=ketupa/> and restored its broadsheet size and liberal perspective.<ref name=emery />{{rp|292}} For four months of that same year, future [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Alaska]] [[Ernest Gruening]] was an editor of the paper.

In 1939, [[Dorothy Schiff]] purchased the paper. Her husband [[George Backer]] was named editor and publisher.<ref>Deborah G. Felder & Diana L. Rosen, ''Fifty Jewish Women Who Changed the World'', Citadel Press, 2003, p. 164.</ref> Her second editor and third husband [[Ted Thackrey]] became co-publisher and co-editor with Schiff in 1942.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794542,00.html|title=Dolly's Goodbye| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date= January 31, 1949|access-date=June 6, 2007}}</ref> Together, they recast the newspaper into its modern-day tabloid format.<ref name=emery />{{rp|556}}

In 1945, ''[[The Bronx Home News]]'' merged with it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/401 |title=Bronx home news |publisher=nypl.org |access-date=3 January 2025 }}</ref> 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 the ''Post'' was seen to have liberal tilt, supporting trade unions and social welfare, and featured some of the most popular columnists of the time, such as [[Joseph Cookman]], [[Drew Pearson (journalist)|Drew Pearson]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Max Lerner]], [[Murray Kempton]], [[Pete Hamill]], and [[Eric Sevareid]], theatre critic [[Richard Watts Jr.]], and gossip columnist [[Earl Wilson (columnist)|Earl Wilson]].

In November 1976, it was announced that Australian [[Rupert Murdoch]] had bought the ''Post'' from Schiff with the intention that Schiff would be retained as a consultant for five years.<ref>{{cite news|last=Carmody|first=Deirdre|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/20/archives/new-jersey-pages-dorothy-schiff-agrees-to-sell-post-to-murdoch.html|title=Dorothy Schiff Agrees to Sell ''Post'' To Murdoch, Australian Publisher|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 20, 1976|access-date=December 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230317/http://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/20/archives/new-jersey-pages-dorothy-schiff-agrees-to-sell-post-to-murdoch.html|archive-date=December 30, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, it was reported that Murdoch bought the newspaper for US$30.5 million.<ref name="hollywoodreporter2005"/> 

The ''Post'' 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 competing ''[[New York World Journal Tribune|World 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 the ''Post''{{'}}s profitability, though it made money from 1949 until Schiff's final year of ownership, when it lost $500,000. The paper has lost money ever since.<ref name=emery />{{rp|74}}

In late October 1995, the ''Post'' announced plans to change its Monday through Saturday publication schedule and begin issuing a Sunday edition,<ref>{{cite news|date=October 24, 1995 |title=New York Post to Publish on Sundays |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/24/nyregion/new-york-post-to-publish-on-sundays.html |access-date=December 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221000037/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/24/nyregion/new-york-post-to-publish-on-sundays.html |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> which it last published briefly in 1989.<ref>{{cite news|date=February 5, 1996 |title=Post Plans Sunday Paper |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/05/nyregion/post-plans-sunday-paper.html |access-date=December 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221000046/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/05/nyregion/post-plans-sunday-paper.html |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

On April 14, 1996, the ''Post'' delivered its new Sunday edition at the cost of 50 cents per paper by keeping its size to 120 pages.<ref name="Orlando">{{cite news|date=April 14, 1996 |title=The New York Post Starts Inexpensive Sunday Paper |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |page=A26 |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/new-york-post/recent/2 |access-date=December 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214064752/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/new-york-post/recent/2 |archive-date=December 14, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The amount, significantly less than Sunday editions from ''[[The New York Daily News]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'', was part of the ''Post''{{'}}s efforts "to find a niche in the nation's most competitive newspaper market".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/14/nyregion/slimmed-down-the-post-returns-to-sundays.html|title=Slimmed Down, The Post Returns to Sundays|date=April 14, 1996|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=July 15, 2020|archive-date=January 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132246/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/14/nyregion/slimmed-down-the-post-returns-to-sundays.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Orlando"/>

Because of the institution of federal regulations limiting media [[cross ownership|cross-ownership]] after Murdoch's purchase of WNEW-TV, which is now [[WNYW]], and four other stations from [[Metromedia]] to launch the [[Fox Broadcasting Company]], Murdoch was forced to sell the paper for $37.6 million in 1988 (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|37600000|1988}}}} in {{inflation/year|US}}){{inflation/fn|US}} to [[Peter S. Kalikow]], a real-estate magnate with no experience in the media industry.<ref name=MomentTruth>{{cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/1/gangs-hickey.asp|title=Moment of Truth|author=Neil Hickey|work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|date=January–February 2004|access-date=June 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423111034/https://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/1/gangs-hickey.asp |archive-date=April 23, 2007}}</ref> 

In 1988, the ''Post'' hired [[Jane Amsterdam]], founding editor of ''[[Manhattan, inc.]]'', as its first female editor, and within six months the paper had toned down the sensationalist headlines.<ref name="Tasteful Post">{{cite magazine|title=Grumbles at 'tasteless' Post|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|date=December 19, 1988|page=22}}</ref> 

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."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kurtz|first1=Howard|title=Editor out at N.Y. Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/05/27/editor-out-at-ny-post/e8968510-34c3-4fc2-bda5-e7a6bddd65a3|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 27, 1989|access-date=January 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126070842/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/05/27/editor-out-at-ny-post/e8968510-34c3-4fc2-bda5-e7a6bddd65a3/|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1993, after Kalikow declared bankruptcy,<ref name=MomentTruth/> the paper was temporarily managed by [[Steven Hoffenberg]],<ref name=MomentTruth/> a financier who later pleaded guilty to [[security (finance)|securities]] [[fraud]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.securitization.net/pdf/nomura_abs_030502.pdf|title=ABS Credit Migrations|work=Nomura Fixed Income Research|date=March 5, 2002|page=20|access-date=June 7, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613235532/http://www.securitization.net/pdf/nomura_abs_030502.pdf|archive-date=June 13, 2007}}</ref> and for two weeks by [[Abraham Hirschfeld|Abe Hirschfeld]],<ref>Bob Fenster, ''Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race'', McMeel, 2000, p. 13.</ref> 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 founder [[Alexander Hamilton]] with a single teardrop running down his cheek,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DD113CF935A25750C0A965958260|title=Fight for New York Post Heats Up In Court, in Newsroom and in Prin|last=Glaberson|first=William|date=March 16, 1993|access-date=March 22, 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-date=January 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132243/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/16/nyregion/fight-for-new-york-post-heats-up-in-court-in-newsroom-and-in-print.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19930316&id=CLRKAAAAIBAJ&pg=4398,3974074|title=N.Y. Post slams its new owner|work=The Telegraph|date=March 16, 1993|page=10|access-date=March 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905191719/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19930316&id=CLRKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4398,3974074&hl=en|archive-date=September 5, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> the ''Post'' was again purchased in 1993 by Murdoch's News Corporation. This came about after numerous political officials, including Democratic governor of New York [[Mario Cuomo]], persuaded the [[Federal 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.<ref name=MomentTruth/>

===21st century===
In December 2012, Murdoch announced that Jesse Angelo had been appointed publisher.<ref>{{cite web|date=June 28, 2012|title=News Corporation Announces Intent to Pursue Separation of Businesses to Enhance Strategic Alignment and Increase Operational Flexibility|url=http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_549.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527091629/http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_549.html|archive-date=May 27, 2013|access-date=March 14, 2016|publisher=News Corp|location=New York}}</ref>

Various branches of Murdoch's media groups, [[21st Century Fox]]'s [[Endemol Shine North America]], and [[News Corp]]'s ''New York Post'' created a ''Page Six TV'' nightly gossip show based on and named after the Post's gossip section. A test run in July would occur on [[Fox Television Stations]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Littleton |first1=Cynthia |title=Fox Television Stations Set Test Run of 'Page Six TV' Gossip Show |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/fox-television-stations-page-six-tv-test-run-1201771430/ |access-date=July 18, 2018 |work=Variety |date=May 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719024649/https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/fox-television-stations-page-six-tv-test-run-1201771430/ |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The show garnered the highest ratings of a nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in a decade when it debuted in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/01/fox-television-stations-renew-page-six-tv-through-2018-2019-season-1202244107/|title=Fox Television Stations Renew 'Page Six TV' Through 2018-2019 Season|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=January 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413043501/http://deadline.com/2018/01/fox-television-stations-renew-page-six-tv-through-2018-2019-season-1202244107/|archive-date=April 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> With ''Page Six TV''{{'}}s success, the ''New York Post'' formed New York Post Entertainment, a scripted and unscripted television entertainment division, in July 2018 with Troy Searer as president.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holloway |first1=Daniel |title=New York Post Launches TV Division |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/new-york-post-tv-division-1202877173/ |access-date=July 18, 2018 |work=Variety |date=July 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718213446/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/new-york-post-tv-division-1202877173/ |archive-date=July 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2017, the ''New York Post'' was reported to be the preferred newspaper of [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] [[Donald Trump]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-reading-list|title=What We Can Learn From What Donald Trump Reads|first=Jack|last=Moore|date=January 24, 2017|website=Gq.com|access-date=July 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730022240/http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-reading-list|archive-date=July 30, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="haberman-2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-insight-haberman-20170728-story.html|title=What in the world is going on in the West Wing? Seven revelations from one of the reporters who knows Trump best|date=July 28, 2017|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=July 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729013357/http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-insight-haberman-20170728-story.html|archive-date=July 29, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> who maintains frequent contact with its owner Murdoch.<ref name="haberman-2017" /> The ''Post'' promoted Trump's celebrity since at least the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842/|title=Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe|first=Susan|last=Mulcahy|website=[[Politico]] Magazine|date=May 8, 2020|access-date=March 9, 2021|archive-date=March 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301114115/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

In October 2020, the ''Post'' endorsed Trump for re-election, citing his "promises made, promises kept" policy.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 26, 2020|title=The New York Post endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election|url=https://nypost.com/2020/10/26/the-new-york-post-endorses-president-donald-j-trump-for-re-election/|access-date=November 6, 2020|website=New York Post|language=en-US|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026094104/https://nypost.com/2020/10/26/the-new-york-post-endorses-president-donald-j-trump-for-re-election/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Weeks after Trump was defeated and [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|sought to overturn the election results]], the ''Post'' 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." The ''Post'' characterized Trump attorney [[Sidney Powell]] as a "crazy person", and his former national security advisor [[Michael Flynn]]'s suggestion to declare martial law as "tantamount to treason."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/business/media/new-york-post-trump-editorial.html|title=Murdoch's New York Post Blasts President's Fraud Claims|first=Marc|last=Tracy|date=December 28, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101030317/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/business/media/new-york-post-trump-editorial.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/media/new-york-post-donald-trump-editorial/index.html|title=New York Post to Donald Trump: Stop the insanity|first=David|last=Goldman|website=[[CNN]]|date=December 29, 2020|access-date=April 28, 2021|archive-date=December 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231023933/https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/media/new-york-post-donald-trump-editorial/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2021, Keith Poole, a top editor at ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', another Murdoch-owned tabloid, was appointed as the editor in chief<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newscorp.com/2021/01/05/keith-poole-named-editor-in-chief-of-the-new-york-post-group/|title=Keith Poole Named Editor in Chief of the New York Post Group|date=January 5, 2021|access-date=November 18, 2021|archive-date=January 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114132350/https://newscorp.com/2021/01/05/keith-poole-named-editor-in-chief-of-the-new-york-post-group/|url-status=live}}</ref> of the ''New York Post'' Group.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Robertson|first=Katie|date=April 23, 2021|title=Murdoch's Pick to Run The New York Post Bets On the Web and Celebs|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/business/media/new-york-post-editor.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507142341/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/business/media/new-york-post-editor.html|archive-date=May 7, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Grynbaum">{{Cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=April 28, 2021|title=New York Post Reporter Who Wrote False Kamala Harris Story Resigns|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/business/media/new-york-post-kamala-harris.html|access-date=April 28, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428014009/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/business/media/new-york-post-kamala-harris.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Around the same time, at least eight journalists had left the paper.<ref name=Grynbaum/>

In January 2025, [[Tubi]] released the ''New York Post'' documentary ''New York Post Presents: Luigi Mangione Monster or Martyr?''<ref name="O'Neill 2025">{{cite web |last1=O'Neill|first1=Natalie|title='New York Post Presents: Luigi Mangione Monster or Martyr?' gives inside look into shocking UnitedHealthcare murder|url=https://nypost.com/2025/01/02/us-news/ny-post-documentary-gives-inside-look-at-luigi-mangione-case/|website=[[New York Post]]|language=en |date=January 2, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Vena 2025">{{cite web |last1=Vena|first1=Alex|title='New York Post Presents: Luigi Mangione Monster Or Martyr?' Documentary Investigates The Life Of UnitedHealthcare Murder Suspect|url=https://decider.com/2025/01/02/new-york-post-presents-luigi-mangione-monster-or-martyr-documentary/|website=[[New York Post]]|language=en |date=January 2, 2025}}</ref>