A new editor role has been created after an independent publisher revived a historic regional daily’s name.

Liverpool-based title The Post is seeking a journalist to take up the position after receiving funding from online publishing platform Substack.

The Post is a sister title to online publication The Mill, which focuses on Greater Manchester, and takes its name from the now-defunct Liverpool Daily Post.

After turning from daily to weekly in 2012, the Trinity Mirror-owned newspaper was known as the Liverpool Post until it ceased publication the following year.

The editor job is currently being advertised on HTFP and can be viewed here.

Joshi Herrmann, editor of The Mill, told HTFP the fresh funding will allow The Post to become a “fully-fledged operation” funded by paying members.

Joshi, pictured, said: “We realised there was a lot of demand for a new quality media outlet in Liverpool, so we’ve been trying to work out how that could look.

“Recently we got a bit of funding from Substack to hire a fulltime journalist in Liverpool to run The Post and turn it into a fully-fledged operation, and that’s what we are hiring for now.

“The idea of The Post is to publish proper in-depth, thoughtful journalism that never re-writes press releases or sources stories from social media.

“The fact that 2,000 people have already joined our mailing list before we have even launched properly shows there is a clear demand for that.”

HTFP reported last month how journalist Dan Hayes had left Sheffield daily the Star to launch the Sheffield Tribune, a similar project to The Mill and The Post, with the help of Joshi and his two full-time colleagues.

Initially, the successful applicant for the role at The Post will be responsible for working with Liverpool and Merseyside-based freelancers, while it is hoped the number of full-time staff will increase over the next two years.

Joshi, who previously worked for London’s Evening Standard and several national titles, said: “The idea of The Post is to publish proper in-depth, thoughtful journalism that never re-writes press releases or sources stories from social media.

“The fact that 2,000 people have already joined our mailing list before we have even launched properly shows there is a clear demand for that.”

Discussing the title’s name, he added: “We heard from a few people that they miss the Liverpool Daily Post, and remember it fondly as a quality newspaper in the city.

“So The Post felt like a great name – evoking something from Liverpool’s past while trying to build a new kind of local media outlet for the future.”