Latest in new york post

After calling for strong background checks “perhaps” tied to immigration reform this morning, President Donald Trump, responding to a weekend of mass shootings, returned to a more familiar stance by blaming “Fake News” for contributing “greatly to the anger and rage that has built up over many years.” See the tweets…

Publishers were coming and going today at two major media outlets. Tribune Publishing Chief Executive Justin Dearborn stepped down after three years, the newspaper company announced Thursday. Chicago newspaper executive Tim Knight was named CEO. He was formerly president of the company and will also join the Tribune…

Actress and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell certainly puts her money where her mouth is. The problem is she may be too generous. The New York Post reports that O’Donnell, who has famously clashed with President Donald Trump and is a prominent supporter of liberal causes, may have violated election laws by giving too…

Page Six TV, a freshman daily syndicated show, has been renewed by Fox Television Stations through the 2018-2019 season. The strip, which offers a pop-culture mix tied into the New York Post‘s gossip column, is produced by Endemol Shine North America and distributed by Twentieth Television. Launched in September, it…

UPDATED, 1 PM: Better late than never? Greta Gerwig took to the New York Post‘s Page Six gossip column to renounce her prior support of a letter requesting that the Lincoln Center Festival cancel its presentation of an Israeli play back in July. The actress and director, along with a number of other theater, film and…

Updated: Wall Street analysts usually find gentle ways to tell clients when they consider a deal rumor in the press beyond the pale. But one media watcher didn’t hold back this morning in a note challenging a New York Post story over the weekend that said Verizon “may be eyeing a Disney purchase.” RBC Capital Markets…

Page Six TV, the upcoming daily strip from The New York Post and Endemol Shine North America, is a big step closer to its September premiere. The show has been sold in 185 markets, passing the key 90% threshold across the country. Cleared in the top 15 markets, the program is set to premiere in September across…

UPDATE Friday morning: Rival tabloid the Daily News farewelled outgoing New York Post editor Col Allan with this early edition front-page headline: TA-TA TO TRUMP’S TABLOID TOADY! Donald needs to find someone else to carry his water as Post editor ‘retires’ just as the Post itself published its endorsement of Trump in…

What’s in the Daily News? Not much. The New York Post? Plenty — as long as your obsessions are trends, bold-face names and right-wing harangues. As for coverage of the things that make New York New York — the theater, dance, art, music and movies that make all those bankers and lawyers and doctors want to actually…

Mort Zuckerman, the 78-year-old real-estate mogul who has been trying to unload the foundering tabloid, yesterday officially took the paper off the table. “As you know, several months ago I announced exploring the sale of the Daily News," he told the staff in a memo. "I have met with several potential interested and…

He’s the man who came up with “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR” on deadline at the New York Post, back in the days when there were deadlines and newspapers carried actual news on actual paper. Musetto succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Tuesday in the Bronx, where he was in hospice care. When the story first hit the…

UPDATE Saturday AM with more information, below: Billionaire real-estate man Mortimer B. Zuckerman told the already demoralized, thinned-out staff of the New York Daily News on Thursday that the wheezing tabloid, currently bleeding as much as $20 million a year, is up for sale. The response inside the paper’s West…