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  • The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News.

    It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019, it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. (Today's Daily News is not connected to the earlier New York Daily News, which shut down in 1906.) For much of the 20th century the paper operated out of the Daily News Building with its large globe in the lobby.

    The Daily News is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021.[5][6][7][8][9] After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the Daily News property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises.[10]

    History

    Illustrated Daily News

    Florence Harding, wife of then President-elect Warren G. Harding, on cover of the Daily News (February 5, 1921, front page)

    The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin,

    Alfred Harmsworth, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror, London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24, 1919, as Illustrated Daily News.[11] The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993.[12]

    Daily News

    The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625.[11] Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925, over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday.[13][14]

    The Daily News carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs. A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one.

    sports
    section, and an opinion section.

    News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of "radio cars". Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark and Ed Murawinski. Columnists have included Walter Kaner. Editorial cartoonists have included C. D. Batchelor.

    In 1948, the News established

    Emmis Communications, and since 2014 has been owned by CBS Radio as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake
    .

    The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981;[18] this competed with the New York Post, which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978.[19] Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher.[20]

    From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, the multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of the News were printed during this time.[21]

    In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year, the News seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor James Willse, held the News together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993.[12]

    The News at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The newspaper still shares offices at

    One Police Plaza
    with other news agencies.

    In January 2012, former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News.[22] Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015.[23]

    As of May 2016, it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States.[24] In 2019, it was ranked eleventh.[25]

    On September 4, 2017, Tronc (now,

    memes that were later deleted were posted on its Twitter feed.[29][30]

    Its parent,

    They also printed a Sunday edition called, Sunday News.

    Editorial stance and style

    The New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said the Daily News focuses heavily on "deep sourcing and doorstep reporting", providing city-centered "crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues [...] rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives".[31] According to Feuer, the paper is known for "speaking to and for the city's working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct".[31]

    The New York Times has described the Daily News's editorial stance as "flexibly centrist"[31] with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy".[32] In contrast to its sister publication, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily News was pro-Roosevelt, endorsing him in 1932, 1936, and 1940. It broke from the president, however, in 1941 over foreign policy.[33] From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Daily News espoused conservative populism.[34] By the mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the right-wing Post (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion).

    The newspaper endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election,[35] Democrat Barack Obama in 2008,[36] Republican Mitt Romney in 2012,[37] Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016,[38] and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.[39]

    Headquarters

    Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.

    From its founding, it was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north of City Hall, and close to Park Row, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place, which was in the same neighborhood. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper.[40]

    From 1929 to 1995, the Daily News was based in

    5 Manhattan West) in 1995, but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman
    films). The former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building.

    The subsequent headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into

    Pennsylvania Station. The building is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West
    .

    Map of New York Daily News building and garage about 1955

    In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.[41] Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy. In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant.[42] In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center—just four blocks north of its rival New York Post. The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, the Daily News closed its Manhattan headquarters.[43]

    Printing facilities

    In 1993, the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.[44][45]

    In 2009, the paper spent $150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs.[46][47]

    In 2011, the company spent $100 million to buy three new presses, using a $41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey.[48]

    In 2022, the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group.[49]

    Pulitzer Prizes

    The Daily News has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes.[50]

    In 1998, Daily News columnist Mike McAlary won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers.[51]

    In

    Ground Zero workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation."[53]

    In 2017, the Daily News was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."[54]

    Noteworthy front pages

    In 1928, a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair.[55] The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!".

    On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of the October 30, 1975 Daily News read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".[56] Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election.[57]

    On November 16, 1995, the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline "Crybaby" following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One.[58]

    In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it, and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city's media.[59]

    Following the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page displayed "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" along with tweets from Republican politicians offering thoughts and prayers.[60] The paper advocated for tighter gun laws, condemning what it described as "empty platitudes and angry rhetoric" rather than action "in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country."[60][61] The provocative headline[60][61] received both praise and criticism.[62]

    In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas disparaged "New York values" in a Republican primary debate, the News responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger.[63]

    Controversies

    The Daily News supported the

    9/11, does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave."[65]

    On December 20, 2016, Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan, saying "justice has been served."[66] Russia has demanded an official apology from Daily News.[citation needed]

    Since 2018, Daily News has been preventing internet users in the European Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missing data protection compliance.[67][68][69]

    See also

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