The daily news is a New York City tabloid newspaper founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson. It was the first daily printed in tabloid format and at its peak circulation numbered 2.4 million copies a day. It is still the eleventh-highest-circulated newspaper in the United States and continues to publish as of this writing, albeit with a smaller staff. The newspaper is known for its large photographs and intense coverage of city news, celebrity gossip, classified ads, and sports, as well as its editorials. The newspaper was a pioneer of investigative journalism and helped introduce a variety of journalistic techniques to American newspapers.
The paper’s original headquarters, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, was a landmark skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue. It was known as the Daily News Building and featured a giant globe in its lobby. It was later the location for the fictional Daily Planet in the first two Superman movies. In 1995 the paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street, also designed by Howells and Hood and now known as 5 Manhattan West, where it remains today. The building is the world headquarters of the Associated Press and also houses public-television station WNET.
In 1992 the Daily News was bought by Mortimer Zuckerman, who outbid Canadian newspaper heir Conrad Black. Zuckerman had the support of nine of the newspaper’s ten unions. In one agreement with the New York Typographical Union, he agreed to disregard lifetime job guarantees for 167 printers whose jobs were obsolete.
After a period of turmoil, the Daily News became more moderately liberal in its editorial stances and gained a reputation as a tough competitor to the conservative New York Post. The newspaper developed a national audience and won awards for its editorial cartoons and political reporting. It also developed a strong reputation for its legal battles to protect the First Amendment rights of journalists.
In the 1980s, the newspaper began to decline as the New York City economy weakened. In 1986, the Daily News was the victim of a bomb attack and was temporarily closed for several weeks. In 1997, Pete Hamill, a veteran reporter and editor who began his career at the Post, was named editor-in-chief of the Daily News. He was expected to make the paper less combative and more serious in tone, closer in style to New York Newsday than the Post. He soon brought in a team of new writers and revamped the editorial page. Ad Fontes Media rates the Daily News in the Skews Left category for bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Its newsroom is located in downtown New York City. The newspaper is distributed nationally and in many foreign countries. Its website features a comprehensive online archive of the newspaper’s articles, dating back to its founding. The paper has a significant presence on social media platforms. In addition, its television and radio stations are popular in the New York area.