New York Daily Mirror
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Hearst Corporation | |
| Founded | June 24, 1924 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | October 16, 1963 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning
New York Journal American. It was created to compete with the New York Daily News
which was then a sensationalist tabloid and the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States. Hearst preferred the broadsheet format and sold the Mirror to an associate in 1928, only to buy it back in 1932.
Hearst hired Philip Payne away from the Daily News as managing editor of the Mirror. Payne's circulation building stunts ranged from reviving the sensational
New York Evening Graphic
, the city's third sensational tabloid. Winchell was given his own radio show and syndicated, in his prime—the 1940s and early 1950s—in more than 2000 daily papers.
During the three tabloids' 1920s circulation war, management of the Mirror estimated that its content was 10% news and 90% entertainment. For example, the Mirror and Graphic both had devoted substantial resources to the exploitation of
Charles A. Lindbergh
.
By the 1930s, the Daily Mirror was one of the Hearst Corporation
's largest papers in terms of circulation. However, the paper never became a significantly profitable property as its earnings were mostly destined to support the company's faltering afternoon papers, and in its later years it declined substantially despite numerous efforts to turn things around.
Despite having the second-highest daily circulation of an American newspaper at the time, the Daily Mirror closed in 1963, after the 114-day
Daily News.[4]
On January 4, 1971, publisher
Long Island City, Queens. Operating on a shoestring budget,[4] the paper faced obstruction from the Daily News[5] (from whom it had acquired the Daily Mirror name rights after the Daily News let them lapse).[4]
This new iteration of the Daily Mirror ceased publication on February 28, 1972.
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References
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- ^ Stanley Walker, City Editor. New York, F.A.Stokes, 1934. pp. 202-203
- ^ a b Kenneth T. Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York City: The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 107.
- ^ Tarleton, John (7 May 2020). "Remembering Donald Paneth, Maverick Journalist". The Indypendent.
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- ^ "533 F.2d 53: Daily Mirror, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant, v. New York News, Inc., et al., Defendants-appellees; United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. - 533 F.2d 53" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Justia. Accessed Sept. 20, 2011.
