New York Post
The New York Post is a conservative-leaning daily tabloid newspaper in New York City. It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. In 1928, Wilella Waldorf became one of the first women to hold an editorial role at the Evening Post.
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The New York Post is a conservative-leaning daily tabloid newspaper in New York City. It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century under the name New York Evening Post. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the Post for US$30. 5 million. Since 1993, the Post has been owned by News Corporation and its successor, News Corp, which had owned it previously from 1976 to 1988. The Post also operates NYPost. com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix. com and the entertainment site Decider. com. The Providence Journal, which began daily publication on July 21, 1829, also bills itself as the nation’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper. The Hartford Courant, believed to be the oldest continuously. published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper; it did not publish daily until 1836. The New Hampshire Gazette, which has trademarked its claim of being The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper, wasfounded in 1756 as a weekly. Since the 1890s it has been published only on weekends. In 1928, Wilella Waldorf became one of the first women to hold an editorial role at the Evening Post and briefly turned it into a non-ensensational tabloid. During her time at the newspaper, she was the only woman to hold a senior editorial role. In 1933, she became the first woman to lead the Post’s drama department.
She was also the first female publisher of the Ladies Home Journal, the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Ladies’ Home Journal of the United States. In 2004, she left the Post to become the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, where she remained until her death in 2008. She is survived by her husband, a former Wall Street banker. She also has a son, John Bigelow, Sr., who was a co-owner and editor of the Post from 1849 to 1861. In 2008, she sold the paper to a consortium of 34 Wall Street firms, including J. P. Morgan & Co. and the senior partner of Wall Street firm of J.P. Lamont, a senior partner in Wall Street. She died in 2011 at the age of 89. She had been married to her husband for more than 40 years. She has been buried in Mount Vernon, New York, and is buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery, near her former home in Queens. In 2009, she had a daughter, Elizabeth, who was married to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In 2010, she and her husband moved to the Upper East Side, where they have lived since the 1970s. In 2011, she moved to a new apartment in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. In 2012, she died in a car crash; she was buried in the East Village. In 2013, she wrote a book about her experiences at the Post, which she co-founded with her husband. In 2014, she published a book, “The New-York Evening Post: A Memoir of My Life in the City of New York.”
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