Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: New York Post

New York Post stories: 37 news summaries

21 - 37 of 37 Stories | << Prev 1 2

Switch to grid view »

 NYPost Cartoon: 
 Racist or Just Tasteless? 

Is it racist, or just morbid?

Feb 18, 09 11:06 AM CST
(Newser) - A somewhat inscrutable, certainly tasteless, and possibly racist cartoon by Sean Delonas appeared today in the New York Post and other newspapers, prompting complaints from several quarters, reports the Huffington Post. In a reference to the recent chimp attack in Connecticut, the cartoon shows two police officers, one with smoking... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • New York Post • racism • cartoon • chimpanzees • cartoonist • economic stimulus package

OBITUARY

Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80

Storied career included helming New York, Harper's Bazaar

Jan 28, 09 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - James Brady, a veteran of numerous publications who rose from business reporting to become the editor of New York and Harper’s Bazaar, has died. He was 80. Brady is credited with founding two long-lived New York gossip standbys, the New York Post’s Page Six and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New York City • Page Six • New York Post • obituary • gossip • publisher • editor • Parade magazine • publishing industry • New York magazine • James Brady • Harper's Bazaar • Women's Wear Daily • Fairchild Publications

Citigroup Drops $50M on Fancy Corporate Jet

... After taking $45B in federal bailout funds, fumes indignant Post

Jan 26, 09 12:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Citigroup may be going down in flames, but at least the seats will be nice. Citigroup is buying a brand-new $50 million corporate jet, the New York Post reports, headlining the sale, “JUST PLANE DESPICABLE,” on account of the $45 billion the company has received from Uncle... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Citigroup • New York Post • luxury travel • corporate governance • bailout • private jet • financial crisis • recession depression

analysis

 Has Obama 
 Tipped Murdoch Left? 

NY Post coverage trumpets president-elect

Nov 17, 08 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Media watchers have been tracking the post-election New York Post with particular interest: Instead of being dyspeptic over the Democratic presidential win, Rupert Murdoch's gleefully right-wing tabloid has treated Barack Obama to coverage ranging, as the New York Times puts it, "from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic."... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Rupert Murdoch • New York Post • News Corp • liberal • Michael Wolff • President Obama

analysis

NYC's Elites Want More
of the Mayor

Papers, biz leaders on board for another Bloomberg term

Oct 6, 08 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York’s opinion leaders are presenting a united front in favor of suspending term limits so Michael Bloomberg can serve a third term as mayor, David Carr writes for the New York Times. With the city facing job loss and financial crisis, everyone likes Mike, at least for another... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • New York Post • Michael Bloomberg • Arthur Sulzberger Jr. • New York Daily News • term limits

Opinion

 NY Post Endorses McCain 

Praises 'battle-tested courage' over Obama's inexperience

Sep 8, 08 8:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Post “emphatically” endorsed John McCain today, praising the Arizona senator’s “battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle,” and national security acumen, and dismissing the “tissue-paper-thin resume” of Barack Obama. Despite decades in Washington, McCain “is not of Washington,” the More »

MORE ABOUT:
John McCain • Rupert Murdoch • New York Post • newspaper endorsement • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

 Once a Playmate,
 Always a Playmate

Even after they move on, former bunnies are in the club for life

Aug 21, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - You can leave the Playboy Mansion, but you can't leave the "sorority," the New York Post discovers as it catches up with some former Playmates. "There's no such thing as a former Playmate," said Jule McCullough, Miss February 1986. So where are they now?
  • McCullough,
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New York Post • gossip • Playboy

Daily News Owner Makes Newsday Bid

Zuckerman v. Murdoch fight may hinge on
who can clear FCC

Apr 26, 08 6:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman has matched Rupert Murdoch's bid for Newsday, the New York Times reports—but didn't go a penny over the $580 million the New York Post owner offered. Instead Zuckerman claimed his bid is the better one because, unlike Murdoch's, it doesn't run the risk of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rupert Murdoch • Sam Zell • FCC • Tribune Company • Cablevision • New York Post • Newsday • New York Daily News • Mortimer Zuckerman

Murdoch Calls FCC Bluff With Newsday Move

News Corp. would need waiver to dodge anti-consolidation rules

Apr 23, 08 6:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch is betting new federal standards limiting media ownership to one TV station and one newspaper (per market) won't keep him from buying a fifth New York outlet. The mogul has long held waivers to control media in excess of the rules, and he doesn't think recent enforcement pledges... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rupert Murdoch • FCC • Wall Street Journal • New York Post • Newsday • News Corp • waiver • WNYW-TV • WWOR-TV

 Murdoch
 Closing In on
 Newsday Deal 

Media mogul about to grab third New York paper

Apr 22, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire is closing in on a deal to buy Newsday from the Tribune Company for an $850 million package, reports Reuters. Under the terms of the deal, Newsday would be run as a joint venture with the New York Post, but the papers would remain separate... More »

MORE ABOUT:
newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Tribune Company • New York Post • acquisition • Newsday • media ownership • News Corp

 Zell Might Sell Newsday 

Tribune Co. may unload paper; Rupert Murdoch is interested

Mar 20, 08 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Falling ad revenues could push Sam Zell's Tribune Company to sell Newsday, the Long Island newspaper with the 10th-highest circulation in the nation, the New York Times reports. Among those interested are Rupert Murdoch, who already owns the New York Post. Also in the running are the owner of the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rupert Murdoch • Sam Zell • Tribune Company • New York Post • ad revenue • Newsday • News Corp • James L. Dolan • Mortimer Zuckerman

Murdoch
Shuts Down PageSix.com

Online version of
Post gossip column ends after 3 months

Mar 20, 08 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - PageSix.com, the online version of the New York Post's celebrity gossip column, is shutting down after just three months, Gawker reports. The Rupert Murdoch project attracted 1 million pageviews last week when it published photos of Eliot Spitzer's escort, but, "given the difficulty in the economy, it was... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Rupert Murdoch • Page Six • New York Post • Fox News • gossip • Fox • TMZ • Perez Hilton • News Corp • economy

Clinton Loses Right-Wing Media Allies

As senator looks to
her left, conservative bedfellows are bailing

Feb 16, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - The conservative press, once a surprising ally for Hillary Clinton, is turning out to be about as loyal as the Democratic senator should have expected, Politico writes. Though long reviled by the far-right masses, Clinton once had the carefully cultivated respect of some rightish media players like Rupert Murdoch and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • media • John Edwards • Rupert Murdoch • Drudge Report • Matt Drudge • New York Post • centrist • right-wing media • David Brooks • Iraq war

OPINION

Post Slams
Hillary in Backing Obama

Murdoch tabloid rails against 'Clinton co-presidency'

Jan 31, 08 2:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The New York Post today endorsed Barack Obama in Tuesday's Democratic primary, but devoted most of its space to railing against “the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled” Clinton couple. Words like “thuggish,” “cynical,” and, of course, “triangulating,” flew in the right-wing tabloid. Only a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Rupert Murdoch • New York Post

Better 1st Kid: Chelsea or Jenna?

Ms. Clinton’s stock drops even as Ms. Bush’s rises

Nov 7, 07 3:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Conventional wisdom that puts Chelsea Clinton at the front of the class and Jenna Bush at the back is undergoing a makeover, as the current first daughter charms in public life while her predecessor hits the upper-crust party scene. The “closer I look, the more I like Jenna,”... More »

MORE ABOUT:
UNICEF • Jenna Bush • New York Post • Chelsea Clinton • Nobu

New York
Post Mocks 'Stray-Rod'

Yank slugger snapped entering strip club
with blonde non-wife

May 30, 07 10:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Post decorated its cover with a photo of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and an unidentified blonde woman they allege he took out for dinner at a steakhouse; the two then proceeded to a strip club. Rodriguez is married with a child, and his wife appeared with him... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MLB • New York Yankees • New York Post • Alex Rodriguez • baseball • scandal

Page Six Fallout May Hurt Murdoch

The Wall Street Journal doesn't have
a gossip column, and that's no accident

May 21, 07 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shenanigans at the New York Post may mean trouble for Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones bid, David Carr writes in today's Times. The tales of sex, lies, and bribery spicing up Page Six are normal fare for the gossip standby, but the fact that they're about the Post itself may... More »

MORE ABOUT:
newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • news • Page Six • New York Post • business

21 - 37 of 37 Stories | << Prev 1 2


from our news partners