News Corp launches The California Post, a West Coast edition of the New York Post

News Corp has launched The California Post, a West Coast edition of the New York Post that started publishing on Monday and is based in Los Angeles, the paper’s new editor, Nick Papps, said. The launch follows a private event on the Fox studio lot in Los Angeles attended by senior News Corp and Murdoch family executives, the reporting says.

The New York Post has positioned itself as a national brand with 100 million unique monthly visitors and, according to Alliance for Audited Media figures cited in the report, the third-most-read newspaper in America by print circulation after overtaking the Washington Post in 2023.

The Post’s editorial preoccupations—crime, immigration, celebrity gossip and cancel culture—are described as consistent with a Republican, anti-"woke" worldview the paper has long pursued. Executives at the November Los Angeles gathering included News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson, Fox Corp chief executive Lachlan Murdoch, News UK chief Rebekah Brooks, Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker, New York Post editor in chief Keith Poole, and Rupert Murdoch.

The Post’s publisher and CEO Sean Giancola said print editions of The California Post will replace the physical New York Post in California, and a Post spokeswoman said the new edition has hired more than 80 newsroom staff.

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