Big Apple, Meet Golden State: The New York Post Is Launching A California Newspaper

The Murdoch family’s pugnacious U.S. regular tabloid is headed to California.

The New York Post Media Group said Monday that it is launching a West Coast newspaper successful nan style of its namesake East Coast periodical. The California Post will beryllium a regular newspaper successful nan mold of nan New York Post, pinch an early screen mock-up leaning successful connected its accustomed pun-heavy headlines and civilization warfare interests: Sydney Sweeney pinch nan header “WE DREAM OF JEAN-Y.”

The description of nan Murdoch family’s business, which besides includes Fox News genitor Fox Corp., is among nan biggest moves since Lachlan Murdoch took control of nan media empire built by his father, Rupert Murdoch, 94, successful 2023.

News Corp., which publishes nan Post, besides faces a sizable suit from President Donald Trump against 1 of its different papers, The Wall Street Journal, related to an article astir Trump’s narration pinch Jeffrey Epstein.

The New York Post, which has been publishing since 1801, has remained a blimpish sound successful an different left-leaning region, enduring nan ups and downs of modern media by sticking to its strengths: splashy headlines and fierce reporting connected section crime, authorities and sports, on pinch an avowed right-of-center perspective.

California — Los Angeles successful peculiar — has go a flashpoint successful American civilization and politics. Sizable protests against migration raids and quippy comments from Gov. Gavin Newsom person made nan authorities a target of Trump’s ire.

News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson nodded astatine nan Post and its slant successful a news merchandise for nan California paper.

“Los Angeles and California surely request a regular dose of The Post arsenic an antidote to nan jaundiced, jaded publicity that has sadly proliferated,” Thomson said.

Los Angeles is location to a wide assortment of news outlets, including nan Los Angeles Times and galore entertainment-focused publications, specified arsenic Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, arsenic good arsenic newer entrants, astir notably TMZ, which is owned by Fox Corp.

The California Post will beryllium based successful Los Angeles and led by Nick Papps, who was astir precocious play editor astatine The Herald Sun, a awesome Australian newspaper and subsidiary of News Corp. He besides was a West Coast analogous for The Herald Sun.

Having its office extracurricular nan authorities has not prevented nan New York Post from covering California news astatine length, but Post Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole said nan publications will make nan authorities a focus.

California “is nan epicenter of entertainment, nan AI gyration and precocious manufacturing—not to mention a sports powerhouse,” Poole said successful nan news release, adding that he thinks nan authorities is lacking successful “common-sense, rumor based journalism.”