First Post
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Type of site
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News website |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Dennis Publishing |
| Created by | Mark Law |
| Editor | Nigel Horne |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2005 |
The First Post was a British daily online news magazine based in London. Launched in August 2005, it was sold to Dennis Publishing in 2008 and retitled The Week at the end of 2014. In its current format, it publishes news, current affairs, lifestyle, opinion, arts and sports pages, and features an online games arcade and a cinema featuring short films, virals, trailers and eyewitness news footage. There are also quick-read digests of the UK newspapers' news, opinion and sports pages.
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The First Post has no discernible political bias. Regular writers have included the left wing Alexander Cockburn, commenting on US politics, and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, generally perceived as a conservative, writing on UK and international issues. Contributors are based in a wide range of countries. The First Post was devised by Mark Law who was the editor until September 2009. It is edited by Nigel Horne, former editor of the Telegraph magazine.
Robert Fox is defence correspondent for The First Post. In 2007 15 Royal Navy Personnel were kidnapped by Iranian Special Forces. On their release the UK Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne granted permission for the 15 to sell their stories to the newspapers. Senior members of the Royal Navy were very unhappy about this decision and contacted Robert Fox. The article he wrote for The First Post was the first to alert the public to the disquiet within the Navy and formed the basis for coverage by the BBC radio flagship programme Today.
Moses Moyo is the pseudonym of an independent Zimbabwe-born journalist based in Harare, who reports exclusively for The First Post. In October 2007 documents leaked to Moyo by an operative in Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation uncovered a plot to assassinate former Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube. This coverage forced Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to suspend attempts to silence critics of his regime.
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