''The Post'' was a national tabloid

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, owned by

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's Messenger Group. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. As the first national newspaper to be both conceived and composed by journalists, ''The Post'' dedicated itself to being

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-free, a bit of a departure for British tabloids of that period. During its short life ''The Post'' had the most advanced production techniques devised (which were project-managed and implemented by Bryan Dean and Graham Binns). The paper never found a consistent editorial voice or audience, and folded due to financial pressures just five weeks after starting up.

Publication history

Publisher Eddy Shah had been forced to sell his previous venture, ''

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'', in 1986, and was determined to start another paper. ''The Post'' was produced at Messenger Newspapers,

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) page design. In addition, pages were transmitted by phone line to the print shop, which gave the paper extra lead time due to a lack of need for courier services. The first edition of ''The Post'' was issued on Thursday 10 November and cost 20p. The paper's final edition came out the week of December 11, 1988.

Contributors and staff members

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, former editor of the '' Daily Star'', was ''The Post'' editor.

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and

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, then the hosts of an

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series called ''Saint and Greavsie'', had a column in the paper on Saturdays. Graham Ball was features editor at ''The Post'' newspaper;

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was a staff member. Cartoonist

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, ''Badlands'', debuted in ''The Post''; after the paper's closure ''Badlands'' ran for 13 years in '' The Sun''."About Badlands,"
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References

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Publications disestablished in 1988

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