The Daily News

The Daily News is a morning tabloid newspaper founded in 1919. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format and attracted readers with sensational stories of crime, scandal, and violence, lurid photographs, and cartoons. It was the ninth most widely circulated newspaper in the United States as of 2017. It is owned by tronc, which acquired it from the Tribune Company in 2017, and is based in New York City. The newspaper has a moderate-to-liberal bias and is often compared with its rival, the New York Post.

The paper was dubbed “too tough to die” for much of its history and was once the largest circulation metropolitan daily newspaper in the world. In the 1980s, however, it began to lose market share to competitors including Newsday and the New York Post. A five-month strike by its unionized employees in 1990 caused the parent company to put it up for sale, which was eventually sold to Mortimer Zuckerman and Fred Drasner at the beginning of 1993. Under their ownership, the newspaper returned to profitability and remains a major news source in the New York metropolitan area.

Throughout the years, the News has been known by several slogans, including “New York’s Picture Newspaper” and “The Eyes, The Ears, the Honest Voice of New York.” The famous art deco Daily News building on 42nd Street at Second Avenue was designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. It became the model for the Daily Planet building in the first two Superman movies, and was used as the headquarters for its television subsidiary, WPIX-TV, until 1995.

Since its launch, the Daily News has included a prominent photograph on its front page and has been called “New York’s newspaper of record.” It has also been referred to as “the nation’s most read daily”, and in more recent times as “New York’s most read paper.” The News is known for its large and prominent photographs for news, entertainment and sports, along with intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, comics, a sports section, and an opinion section.

In addition to the newspaper, the Daily News operates a website and has its own radio station. The newspaper has a longstanding tradition of investigative journalism. It has been credited with exposing corrupt politicians, illegal drug dealing, and organized crime in New York. In some cases, the newspaper has even risked its own reputation to publish the truth.

In January 1997, Pete Hamill became editor-in-chief of the Daily News. He replaced Martin Dunn, who left in October 1996 to return to England. The staff of the Daily News, which had become divided into factions under Dunn, appeared to unite under Hamill and begin to battle for readers with the rival New York Post. The Daily News currently has a circulation of more than 1 million. Its editorial policy is to “aggressively stand for America and the people of New York City.” It was the only newspaper to cover the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.