New York Post history

In the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write for the paper.

So well respected was the Evening Post under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in 1864.

Bryant died in 1878, after which Henry Villard, the railroad magnate, bought the paper.

In 1881, Henry Villard took control of the Evening Post, as well as The Nation, which became the Post's weekly edition.

When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor-in-chief.

In 1897, both publications passed to the management of Villard's son, Oswald Garrison Villard, a founding member of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.

She was proceeded by Clara Savage Littledale, the first woman reporter ever hired by the Post and the editor of the woman's page in 1914.

In 1928, Wilella Waldorf became drama editor at the Evening Post.

Schiff married George Backer in 1932. and after the purchase of the paper, Mr.

In 1934, J. David Stern purchased the paper, changed its name to the New York Post, and restored its broadsheet size and liberal perspective.

The Post then followed a conservative editorial policy, but was led into the liberal column when J. David Stern acquired the paper in 1936.

In 1939, Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper.

Her second editor and third husband Ted Thackrey became co-publisher and co-editor with Schiff in 1942.

In 1949, James Wechsler became editor of the paper, running both the news and the editorial pages.

From 1950 on, The Post began to make money, with Mrs Schiff keeping a tight rein on costs.

In the long 1962‐63 New York newspaper strike‐lockout, Mrs.

In November 1976, it was announced that Australian Rupert Murdoch had bought the Post from Schiff with the intention she would remain as a consultant for five years.

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.

When Kalikow declared bankruptcy in 1993, the paper was temporarily managed by Steven Hoffenberg, a financier who later pleaded guilty to securities fraud, and for two weeks by Abe Hirschfeld, who made his fortune building parking garages.

In December 2012, Murdoch announced that Jesse Angelo had been appointed publisher.

In 2017, the New York Post was reported to be the preferred newspaper of United States president Donald Trump, who maintains frequent contact with its owner Murdoch.

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.