Col Allan
'New York Post' offers buyouts; seeks 10-percent staff reduction in attempt to avoid layoffs
The buyouts come as the Post's parent corporation, News Corp., prepares to separate its publishing properties, which also include The Wall Street Journal and various newspapers in the U.K. and Australia, from the company's cash-cow television and film assetts. After the split, the publishing titles will no longer be cushioned by more lucrative brands such as Fox News. More
'NOT BAG MEN!' The 'Post' has yet more news for you about Boston bomber: He isn't on today's front page
As a teen who was singled out as a Boston bombing suspect on the cover of the New York Post tries to clear his name, the tabloid has changed the tenor of its coverage. More
'News' bullies 'Post' with an intrusive Rex Ryan exclusive
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
Tale of the tape: 'Observer' won't retract story about 'Post' editor Col Allan and soccer-mom madam Anna Gristina
“My attorneys are today filing a formal demand of retraction from the Observer and its publisher," Allan said in a report the paper posted on its website late this afternoon. “The Observer’s report is nothing but a smear and a lie.”
But it dosen't look like Allan is going to get what he wants.
"It doesn't make much sense to retract," Observer editor Elizabeth Spiers told Capital.
At the center of the matter are transcripts of interviews and surveillance audio amassed by law enforcement during the five-year investigation of Gristina's alleged prostitution ring. More
(4)Looking for answers for nypost.com, Rupert Murdoch and Col Allan rely on a standby general: Jesse Angelo
Sources tell Capital that Jesse Angelo, editor-in-chief of New Corp.'s standalone "tablet tabloid" The Daily, is expected to become "more involved" in the direction of nypost.com, which has long trailed the website of rival tabloid the Daily News in user-friendliness and page-views.
"They want Jesse to steer the Post's digital strategy," said a source familiar with the inner workings of the paper.
"They've been grooming him for a long time and they trust him more and more to do things," said someone who has worked with Angelo. More
(1)After the 'Post' loses music critic Dan Aquilante, it also kills an ad he bought for his new venture
Dan Aquilante, the New York Post's longtime music critic, has left the paper to start his own editorial syndicate.
And after 32 years of loyal service, he thought the Post would be an ideal venue in which to advertise his new venture, DanTheManPress.com.
So when he opened up the paper this past Tuesday, the day on which his weekly column would have gone to press, he was surprised that the ad he had purchased the day before to run in the arts section was nowhere to be found. More
(4)Like a nasty drunk, the 'Post' visits the stupidities of Anthony Weiner on his wife and newborn child
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
The day Herman Cain canceled on Cindy Adams' boss
Months ago, back when Herman Cain was still a future ex-front-runner, New York Post society columnist Cindy Adams made a plan to host the candidate at an intimate sit-down dinner at her Park Avenue apartment with a group of influential media and political types.
Cain's Republican-primary moment didn't last quite long enough for the event to happen.
The Sunday dinner was to include Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer, Lesley Stahl, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Greta Van Susteren (whose husband, John Coale, is an informal adviser to Herman Cain), New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead, and even a couple of Democrats, Senator Chuck Schumer and Democratic National Committeeman Robert Zimmerman. More
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