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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | MediaNews Group |
| Publisher | Ron Hasse |
| Editor | Frank Pine |
| Staff writers | Tom Bray (City editor), Ryan Carter (Local news editor), Teresa Liu (Los Angeles city government and school district reporter), Linh Tat (Los Angeles County state/federal political reporter), Steve Scauzillo (Los Angeles County government and transportation reporter), Olga Grigoyants (San Fernando Valley reporter), Josh Cain (Public safety reporter), Tarak Fattal (High school sportswriter), Susan Shelley (editorial board member). |
| Founded | 1911; 114 years ago (1911) (as theVan Nuys Call) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 21622 Plummer Street, Suite #200 Chatsworth,California 91311 United States |
| Circulation | 56,493 Daily 79,646 Sunday (as of September 2014)[1] |
| Website | dailynews |
TheLos Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid dailynewspaper ofLos Angeles,California, after the unrelatedLos Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of theSouthern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-basedDigital First Media.
The offices of theDaily News are inChatsworth, and much of the paper's reporting is targeted toward readers in theSan Fernando Valley inLos Angeles. Its stories tend to focus on issues involving local San Fernando Valley businesses, education, and crime.
The editor currently is Frank Pine.[2]
TheDaily News began publication inVan Nuys as theVan Nuys Call in 1911,[3] morphing into theVan Nuys News after a merger with a competing newspaper called theNews.
In 1953, the newspaper was renamed theVan Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet.[3] The front page was produced on green newsprint. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley.[4]
In 1971, the newspaper was sold to theTribune Company by the original family owners.
In 1976, to de-emphasize the Van Nuys location, the paper changed its name to theValley News and Green Sheet, and gradually converted from the four times a week operation to a daily newspaper with paid circulation. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000.
In 1981, the paper changed its name to theDaily News of Los Angeles and became a daily publication.[3] In 1985, Tribune boughtKTLA, and due to ownership laws of the time, Tribune sold the paper toJack Kent Cooke, who spent millions of dollars building state of the art offices and expanding coverage to include the entireSan Fernando Valley.
When theLos Angeles Herald Examiner went out of business November 2, 1989, it left theDaily News the second-biggest paper in the city behind theLos Angeles Times. Upon Cooke's death in 1997,William Dean Singleton's MediaNews purchased the newspaper and consolidated it with his other Southern California MediaNews holdings into the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.[5]
The group briefly published local editions for theAntelope Valley,Santa Clarita andVentura County. However, to cut costs and consolidate resources, the local editions were eliminated.
As part of circulation reporting for theSouthern California News Group, all papers in LANG are considered editions of theDaily News.[6]
TheDaily News endorsedBarack Obama for president in 2008,[7] but then endorsed his opponentMitt Romney in 2012.[8]
TheDaily News bears no relation to an earlier historicLos Angeles Daily News (1923–1954), a morning newspaper based inDowntown Los Angeles (originally theIllustrated Daily News) that ceased publication on December 18, 1954.
An even earlier newspaper called theLos Angeles Daily News was printed beginning in 1869 and continuing for a number of years after.[9][10]
