Daily News Collection
Daily news is a publication, usually issued every day, that reports current events, news, and information of interest to the public. It can be a newspaper, magazine, or online publication. It may focus on local, regional, national, or international news. It can also cover specific subjects such as politics, sports, business, or health. In addition to reporting news, daily news may include editorials, opinions, or advice.
Founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson, the Daily News became one of the first successful tabloid newspapers in the United States. Its sensational coverage of crime, scandal and violence, lurid photographs, and other entertainment features made it popular with readers. The News was a major influence on later tabloid newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Tribune.
The Daily News remained in business until 2021, when it was sold to Tronc for $1. In its heyday, it was a major rival to the New York Times and the New York Herald. The newspaper’s circulation peaked at around 2,200,000 in 1929.
In addition to its extensive reporting of political events, the paper is noted for its emphasis on the “Yellow Peril”, warning of an alleged threat of Chinese immigration to Britain in the early 1900s. It also used the Anglo-German naval race as a device to criticise the Liberal government of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, accusing it of being too pusillanimous in its response to the Tirpitz plan.
It was a pioneer in the use of wire-photographs and was an early user of the AP wire photo service. Its staff was composed of a significant number of professional photographers, and it used its own studios and its own picture editor to prepare the paper’s photos.
This collection consists of an archived index of dozens of local dailies, providing brief summaries of news stories with a local angle that would not be reported in national papers. There are also a few full-text reprints of articles.
The DAilies also contain TODAY IN HISTORY tidbits and NATIONAL DAY lists that would be of interest nationally. The DAilies are in a database that includes the FL index, which provides an index of local dailies and some full-text reprints of news articles.
This database contains a large number of digitized daily news items that are organized by subject matter. Each search produces an ordered INDEX of news articles available for that date and citations that give the date, exact time, and length of each item. It also provides the name of the news source and a short abstract. It is available in a combined file for each date and as individual files. Tapes of the actual broadcasts may be rented. The site offers a 30-day free trial. Detailed abstracts are also available in the bibliographical files for each date. These provide a useful summary of the topic’s recent coverage and can help identify those articles that are worth retrieving from sites with archives.