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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Daily News Enterprises |
| Editor | Andrew Julien (interim)[1] |
| Founded | June 24, 1919; 106 years ago (1919-06-24) (asIllustrated Daily News) |
| Political alignment | Populist[2][3] |
| Headquarters | 125 Theodore Conrad Drive,Jersey City, New Jersey, 07305 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 45,730 average print circulation[4] |
| ISSN | 2692-1251 |
| OCLC number | 9541172 |
| Website | www |
TheDaily News is an Americannewspaper based inJersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 byJoseph Medill Patterson in New York City as theIllustrated Daily News. It was the first U.S. daily printed intabloid format, and reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019,[update] it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. For much of the 20th century, the paper operated out of the historicart decoDaily News Building with its large globe in the lobby. Today'sDaily News is not connected to the earlierNew York Daily News, which shut down in 1906.
TheDaily News is owned by parent company Daily News Enterprises. This company is owned byAlden Global Capital and was formed when Alden, which also owns news media publisherDigital First Media, purchased then-ownerTribune Publishing in May 2021[5][6][7][8][9] and then separated theDaily News from Tribune to form Daily News Enterprises upon the closing of the Tribune acquisition.[10]
TheIllustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin,Robert R. McCormick. The two were co-publishers of theChicago Tribune and grandsons ofTribune Company founderJoseph Medill,[11] in imitation of the successful British newspaperDaily Mirror. When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of theChicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting inParis that Patterson would work on launching a Tribune-owned newspaper inNew York. On his return, Patterson met withAlfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, and the publisher of theDaily Mirror,London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched theDaily News on June 24, 1919, asIllustrated Daily News.[11] TheDaily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993.[12]
TheDaily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625.[11] Still, many of New York'ssubway 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]
TheDaily 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.[14] It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer in 1942 whenEvelyn Straus was hired.[15][16]: 8, 31–32 The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another was "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York". TheDaily News continues to include large and prominentphotographs, for news, entertainment, and sports, as well as intense city news coverage,celebrity gossip,classified ads,comics, asports 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 sportscartoonists have includedBill Gallo,Bruce Stark, andEd Murawinski. Columnists have includedWalter Kaner. Editorial cartoonists have includedC. D. Batchelor.
In 1948, theNews establishedWPIX (Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on theNews's nickname of "New York's Picture Newspaper"; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known asWFAN-FM. The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. The radio station was purchased byEmmis Communications, and since 2014 has been owned byCBS Radio as an FM simulcast ofits AM namesake.
The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart,Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981;[17] this competed with theNew York Post, which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978.[18] Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure ofRobert Maxwell as publisher.[19]
From August 10 to November 5, 1978, the multi-union1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of theNews were printed during this time.[20]
In 1982 and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, theDaily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale.[21] In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to theNews to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year, theNews seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editorJames Willse, held theNews together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company.Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993.[12]
TheNews at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The newspaper still shares offices atCity Hall, and withinOne Police Plaza with other news agencies.
In January 2012, formerNews of the World andNew York Post editorColin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of theDaily News.[22] Myler was replaced by his deputyJim Rich in September 2015.[23]
As of May 2016[update], it was theninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States.[24] In 2019, it was ranked eleventh.[25]
On September 4, 2017, Tronc (nowTribune Publishing), the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired theDaily News.[26] Tronc had bought theDaily News for $1, assuming "operational and pension liabilities". By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays.[27] In July 2018, Tronc fired half of the paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tronc-ownedThe Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[28] The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images andmemes that were later deleted were posted on itsTwitter feed.[29][30]
Tribune Publishing was acquired byAlden Global Capital in May 2021. Upon the close of the deal, theDaily News was transferred to a separate company owned by Alden, Daily News Enterprises.[10] In September 2021, editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien, who also serves as the editor and publisher ofThe Hartford Courant.[1]
The paper was also printed in a Sunday edition calledSunday News.
The New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said theDaily 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 theDaily News's editorial stance as "flexibly centrist"[31] with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy".[32] In contrast to its sister publication, theChicago Tribune, theDaily 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, theDaily 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 conservativePost (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion).
The newspaper endorsed RepublicanGeorge W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election,[35] DemocratBarack Obama in 2008,[36] RepublicanMitt Romney in 2012,[37] DemocratHillary Clinton in 2016,[38] and DemocratJoe Biden in 2020.[39]
From its founding, it was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north ofCity Hall, and close toPark 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, theDaily News was based in220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed byJohn Mead Howells andRaymond Hood.[40] The paper moved to450 West 33rd Street (also known as5 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 theDaily Planet building of the first twoSuperman films. The formerNews subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building.
The subsequent headquarters of theDaily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going intoPennsylvania Station. The building is now the world headquarters of theAssociated Press and is part ofManhattan West.
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In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.[41] Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding fromHurricane 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 nearRockefeller Center—just four blocks north of its rivalNew York Post. The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, theDaily News closed its Manhattan headquarters.[43]
In 1993, theDaily News consolidated its printing facilities nearLiberty State Park inJersey 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 theState 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]
TheDaily News has won elevenPulitzer Prizes.[50]
In1998,Daily News columnistMike McAlary won thePulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) onAbner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured byNew York City police officers.[51]
In2007, theNews' editorial board, which comprised Arthur Browne,Beverly Weintraub, and Heidi Evans,[52] won thePulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after theSeptember 11 attacks had becomeill from toxins in the air.[53] The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper "for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf ofGround Zero workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation."[53]
In 2017, theDaily News was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profitProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporterSarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."[54]
In 1928, aNews reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo ofRuth Snyder being executed in theelectric chair.[55] The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!".
On October 29, 1975,PresidentGerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of theDaily News the next day read "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".[56] Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the1976 presidential election.[57]
On November 16, 1995, theDaily News front page displayed an illustration ofNewt 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 fromBill Clinton aboardAir Force One.[58]
On May 12, 2003, theDaily News front page read "JFK Had a Monica",[59][60] reporting historianRobert Dallek's book on JFK's affair with a White House intern—long before the infamousClinton-Lewinsky scandal just five years prior to the publication, and in turn, compelled the former intern,Mimi Alford, to come forward. TheDaily News ran another front page title on May 16, which read "Mimi Breaks Her Silence",[61] and then another article the next day titled "JFK & MIMI: Why It Matters."[62]
In the year leading up to the2016 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.[63]
Following the2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page read "God isn't fixing this", with images of tweets fromRepublican politicians offeringthoughts and prayers.[64] The paper advocated fortighter 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."[64][65] The provocative headline[64][65] received both praise and criticism.[66]
In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidateTed Cruz ofTexas disparaged "New York values" in a Republican primary debate, theNews responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing theStatue of Liberty giving themiddle finger.[67]
On December 20, 2016,Daily News columnistGersh Kuntzman compared theassassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey,Andrei Karlov, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomatErnst vom Rath by Jewish studentHerschel Grynszpan, saying "justice has been served."[68]
Since 2018, theDaily News hasprevented internet users in theEuropean Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missingdata protection compliance.[69][70][71]
It has stolen from the Daily News the mantle of New York's populist paper [...].
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Unlike The New York Post, which has veered from left to right, the politics of The Daily News are flexibly centrist..
... state expects to award the first $41.7 million in credits soon to theDaily News, which is spending $100 million on three new presses at its site in Jersey City.
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