• Several New York Post staffers questioned whether the tabloid did enough to verify recent Hunter Biden story.

The New York Post’s front- page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly by a staff reporter who refused to put his name on it, two Post employees said.

Bruce Golding, a reporter at the Rupert Murdochowned tabloid since 2007, did not allow his byline to be used because he had concerns over the article’s credibility, the two Post employees said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Coming late in a heated presidential campaign, the article suggested that Joe Biden had used his position as vice president to enrich his son Hunter. The Post based the story on photos and documents that the paper said it had taken from the hard drive of a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden.

Many Post staff members questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents, said five people with knowledge of the tabloid’s inner workings. Staff members also had concerns about the reliability of its sources and its timing, the people said.

The article named two sources: Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump now facing federal fraud charges, who was said to have made the paper aware of the hard drive last month; and Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, who was said to have given the paper “a copy” of the hard drive on Oct. 11.

Top editors met on Oct. 11 to discuss how to use the material provided by Mr. Giuliani. The group included tabloid veteran Colin “Col” Allan; Stephen Lynch, The Post’s editor- inchief; and Michelle Gotthelf, the digital editor- inchief, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. Mr. Allan, who was The Post’s editor- in- chief from 2001 to 2016 and returned last year as an adviser, urged his colleagues to move quickly, the person said.

A Post spokeswoman had no comment on how the article was written or edited.