The Post
Wellington-based daily newspaper published by Stuff, successor to The Dominion Post. Covers New Zealand national politics, business, and current affairs.
The Post at a glance
- Country
- New Zealand
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- thepost.co.nz ↗
- Preview
- Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-10-12).
The preview status comes from the weekly audit that requests every outlet through Crosswire's own edge — see how the fetcher identifies itself.
The Post front page, right now
Open a live, light-mode preview of The Post's homepage. Use the language selector in the header to translate the preview into your language.
Load The Post's live homepage here, or open the publisher directly.
How Crosswire groups The Post
Crosswire groups The Post as Centrist for comparisons within New Zealand's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.
Compare The Post with another outlet from New Zealand covering the same event and edition. Record the headline, publication time, named sources and links to original evidence. Similar leaning labels can still produce different coverage; a different label does not guarantee an independent source. Check the articles before interpreting a front-page difference as bias.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings. This profile does not include an individual assessment citation. Page updated ; this is a content-change date, not a fresh fact-check of the outlet. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
Where The Post sits in New Zealand's press
The Post is one of 6 outlets tracked in New Zealand, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being The New Zealand Herald. By outlets tracked, New Zealand ranks second of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.
Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Post outside New Zealand, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are Samoa Observer (Samoa), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The National (Papua New Guinea) and The Fiji Times (Fiji). Opening one of them beside The Post is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
Other news outlets in New Zealand
Browse and compare more sources from the same country.
Centrist outlets around the world
Outlets with a similar editorial orientation to The Post, in other countries.
Explore other countries
Jump to another country's front pages on Crosswire.
Reading the news critically
The vocabulary and the method behind these comparisons.