Theodore Olin[1][2][3] Thackrey (November 17, 1901 – October 24, 1980) was an American journalist and publisher, best known as the editor of the New York Post in the 1940s, and the founder of the leftist New York City newspaper The Daily Compass.
[4] In 1948, he became solo publisher of the Post at the behest of his wife, leading to a disastrous three-month tenure in which major advertisers dropped the paper and Schiff returned to take over.
Thackrey "left with a following of firebrand writers to start his own paper",[4] buying the building and physical plant at which PM and the Star had been published,[5] at Duane Street and Hudson Street in Manhattan.
With private financing, he founded The Daily Compass as its publisher and president.
[6] In 1959, Thackrey and Goldstein testified at the U.S. Senate's "Hearings Before the Select Committee in Improper Activities on the Labor or Management Field", which investigated alleged improprieties by the newspaper deliverers union and forcible payoffs in order to ensure Compass distribution.