Daily news is an ongoing flow of information that includes articles and other media about current events. This type of news is often a key source for political, economic, and social developments in the world. The daily news is published for a wide audience and can include opinions pieces, editorials, and other media that gives readers a variety of perspectives on issues. It is also a good source of news for the business community.
Founded in 1919, the New York Daily News was the first U.S. newspaper printed in tabloid format and attracted readership with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence. The paper was once the largest circulation metropolitan newspaper in the United States, reaching a peak of more than two million copies daily and four million on Sunday. In the 1940s and 1950s the Daily News competed with the more conservative New York Post as the city’s leading tabloid. During the 1980s the paper lost readership and revenue to its rival, the Post, and suffered from a five-month strike in 1990 that forced its parent company, Tribune Publishing, to put the Daily News up for sale. In 1993 it was purchased by the businessman Mortimer Zuckerman and became the New York Daily News, Inc.
In 1995 the newspaper moved from its traditional location on 42nd Street and Second Avenue to a single floor of the Manhattan office building known as 5 Manhattan West (or, more officially, 450 West 33rd Street). The Times Building is also home to its sister publication, the Hartford Courant.
The Daily News is a morning daily tabloid newspaper and has a broadsheet companion, the Daily News Magazine. Its editorial pages feature an array of opinion pieces and analysis, and its news desks provide in-depth coverage of major stories. The paper also offers many online and mobile-only versions of its content.
In recent years, the Daily News has shifted toward a more moderate-to-liberal bias and is frequently contrasted with the more right-leaning New York Post. The paper has also had a history of aggressively pursuing legal action against advertisers that violate its ethics rules.
The Daily News is a member of the Newspaper Guild, the publisher’s association of local newspapers across the United States. Its editors and journalists have been involved in a number of labor disputes, including a seven-month strike that caused the paper to cease operations. The newspaper’s ten printing unions are members of the Allied Printing Trades Council, an umbrella organization that includes all print workers in New York. As a result of a series of labor disputes, the Daily News was once printed using non-union replacement workers. The newspaper was also briefly in color in 1997 before switching to black and white in 1998.