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NY Post Writer: Jay-Z's Nets Should Be 'New York N-----s'

Kevin Spak — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:56:05 CDT

New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick is taking some heat for some, er, colorful comments in today's column about the Brooklyn Nets' new uniforms. "As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots—what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team...

NY Daily News Hires Ex News of World Editor

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:04:57 CST

It's Rupert Murdoch editor vs. bounced Murdoch man in New York City's tabloid wars. In a decision met with "shock" and "amazement" in the newsroom, according to Capital New York , Publisher Mort Zuckerman has booted editor-in-chief Kevin Convey and hired former News of the World editor Colin Myler to helm...

NY Post Staff Told To Keep Documents in Hacking Probe

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:40:00 CDT

New York Post staffers have been told to preserve any documents that may relate to phone hacking or payoffs to officials, as News Corp. prepares for a probe into its UK operations to reach across the Atlantic. Post editor Col Allan sent a memo to staff yesterday asking them to...

Twitter Campaign: Boycott Murdoch

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:40:38 CDT

Could Fox News and the New York Post get swept up in the fallout from the News of the World scandal? Determined Twitter and Facebook campaigns are urging the boycott of all Rupert Murdoch operations in the wake of the burgeoning phone hacking scandal at the shuttered British newspaper. Boycottmurdoch...

Strauss-Kahn Accuser Sues New York Post

John Johnson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:23:29 CDT

The Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in New York City may disappear soon , but the DSK headlines keep coming. The maid who accused him of rape is suing the New York Post for reporting that she was a prostitute , notes Reuters . The stories were "an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its rapidly...

Woman Beaten Into Coma for Saving Parking Spot

Nick McMaster — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:09:43 CST

A Bronx woman is in a coma after a man brutally beat her—over a parking spot. Lana Rosas, 25, was holding a parking spot for her boyfriend in Manhattan's East Village, when Oscar Fuller, 35, pulled up, looking to take the spot, police sources tell the New York Post...

Loughner's Bizarre Mug Shot Plays Big in Media

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:23:57 CST

Suspected gunman Jared Lee Loughner looks pretty crazy in his mug shot, and media across the nation tended to play that big. Instead of the benumbed, glazed-over look of the typical cop shop portrait, Loughner's leering face stunned reporters. "Face of Evil" was the headline accompanying the front-page New York...

Murdoch to Start 'Newspaper'—for iPad, Cells

Kevin Spak — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:46:39 CDT

News Corp is planning to launch a new “newspaper” exclusively for tablet computers and cellphones. The new property will operate out of the New York Post newsroom, and be helmed by the Post’s managing editor, but will have several dozen reporters of its own, a source tells the LA Times...

Next to Go at CNN: John King

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:49:17 CDT

Rupert Murdoch gleefully takes another pot shot at CNN with the news that John King will be the next one ousted from the network. “Since King replaced Lou Dobbs, he's lost more than half his audience,” an insider tells Murdoch’s New York Post . “If it were a fight, it would...