The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative[2] daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates NYPost.com,[4] the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com.
It was established in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist and Founding Father, and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post.[5] Its most famous 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. In the mid-20th century, the paper was owned by Dorothy Schiff, a devoted liberal, who developed its tabloid format. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the Post for US$30.5 million.[6] Since 1993, the Post has been owned by Murdoch’s News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2019.[7]
The Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 (equivalent to $175,880 in 2022) from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post,[8] a broadsheet. Hamilton’s co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott,[9] who were dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson as U.S. president and the rise in popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party.[10][full citation needed] The meeting at which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place in Archibald Gracie‘s then-country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion.[11] Hamilton chose William Coleman as his first editor.[10]