A daily tabloid version of the New York Post is heading west, parent company News Corp announced Monday.

The California Post, which will include staff based in Los Angeles, will debut early next year as a separate entity under the New York Post Media Group, the public company led by Rupert Murdoch said.

The expansion comes as circulation continues to decline among newspapers nationwide.

The California newspaper’s content will include a version of Page 6 now featured in the New York Post.

The New York Post displayed a mock images of Page 1imagehe gossip page, including on Facebook.

“Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated,” News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson said. “We are

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