National Post

The National Post is a Canadian daily newspaper Anglophone, based with Toronto, with a national distribution. The newspaper concentrates mainly on the businesses, limiting the reports in other fields like arts and the culture.

The originality of the graphic design of the newspaper deserved several prices during the years to him.

History

The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to fight what it perceived like a liberal tendency too in the leading policies of the Canadian newspapers. Black builds the new newspaper around the Financial Post , a newspaper of Toronto-native businesses already existing, which it bought with the company Sun Media in 1997. (The name Financial Post was retained for the section businesses of the National Post .)

Since the beginning, the Post preached preserving positions solidements ; its leading page regularly publishes articles of opinion of the several conservatives, eminent néo-conservatives and libertariens, as much American that Canadian, including Diane Francis, Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn and David Frum.

In 2001, the daily newspaper was sold with CanWest Global Communications, directed by Israel Asper until its death in 2003. Total CanWest and the Post are managed at present by wire of Asper, Leonard Asper and David Asper. Asper acknowledge openly that they control the leading contents their daily newspapers, using them to diffuse their own opinions.

See too

List of the Canadian newspapers

External bond

Official site

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