The Post

Crosswire lists The Post as Center within New Zealand's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read The Post beside another title from New Zealand and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from New Zealand covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are The Post's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because The Post is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from New Zealand either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

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.