California Post will premiere in Los Angeles Jan. 26 in a much-anticipated debut, ushering in what its sister publication, New York Post, calls a \u201cnew era of common sense and accountability\u201d in Southern California.<\/p>\n
Seven days a week, the News Corp. subsidiary will bring print and digital news from its new Century City newsroom on the Fox studio lot. Beyond its home base, Los Angeles has the second-largest concentration of New York Post readers, racking up 3.5 million unique visitors a month. That favorably positioned the expansion, according to the initial announcement in August from New York Post Media Group.<\/p>\n
Ever contrarian, the conservative-leaning tabloid will mirror its New York counterpart in coverage and tone, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom January 26, we will be setting the agenda, entertaining and disrupting the status quo,\u201d said California Post Editor-in-Chief Nick Papps in a Jan. 5 statement. \u201cPeople are tired of legacy media, they want change, and that change starts on January 26.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp., said last August that the Post was \u201can antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Truth is, local journalism has been going through a lot.<\/p>\n
Legacy news media companies are struggling. The 144-year-old Los Angeles Times saw dwindling subscription and advertising sales, with Adweek reporting a revenue loss of $50 million and London-based Press Gazette pointing out a 25% drop in daily print circulation in 2024. The publication hemorrhaged at least 115 employees \u2013 or over 20% of its newsroom \u2013 January 2024 and laid off 14 more last May. Billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong also announced his plan last July to take the newspaper public through a Regulation A offering, or a \u201cmini IPO\u201d with a limit capped at $75 million. The decision attracted criticism not only from his staff but also media analysts who said Soon-Shiong was lowballing the company. <\/p>\n
National Public Radio affiliates LAist and KCRW recently faced layoffs too, while alternative newspaper LA Weekly saw an editorial level exodus in March 2024 after a buyout announcement from the publisher.<\/p>\n
California Post seems eager to make waves despite.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlready, the reaction to our arrival and investment in journalism in this state has been so positive,\u201d said Papps. \u201cThe California Post will be a game-changer across news, sports, opinion and entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Post will premiere in Los Angeles Jan. 26 in a much-anticipated debut, ushering in what its sister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[66734,48,52,51,47,50,49,63763],"class_list":{"0":"post-139867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-california-post","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-news-corp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}