“This Was Devastating to Everybody”: Inside the New York Post’s Blowup Over a Bogus Story at the Border

Tabloid veteran Laura Italiano’s very public exit has rattled the newsroom, where staffers speak of intense pressure to drive clicks and stoke the culture wars. “The Post has always been a balancing act of catering to the masses and the elites,” says one. “Lately, it feels as if everything is now for the masses.”