New York Ledger

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The New York Ledger was a weekly story paper published in New York City from 1856 to 1898.[1]

[edit] In fiction

The New York Ledger is a fictional tabloid newspaper often seen in the television Law & Order franchise. On the show, it competes with the also-fictional New York Sentinel.

Heavily based on the real-life New York Post, right down to the typeset of its masthead, the Ledger is known in the show's universe for its lurid headlines and accompanying pictures, as well as its sensationalist portrayal of suspected criminals. This is supposedly in contrast to the Sentinel, which is meant to resemble The New York Times. The real life New York Daily News has also appeared in the series.

The paper was very briefly given its own spinoff, called Deadline, in 2000. It starred Oliver Platt as a reporter for the newspaper.

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