The Daily News App
Getting up-to-date with the latest news every day can be challenging. A news app can help you stay informed and make the best choices for your family, friends, and career. These apps collect articles from a large pool of sources, and incorporate different types of reporting, so you get a good mix of stories from many different sources.
Founded in 1919, the New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. The paper attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime and scandal, lurid photographs, and cartoons. The newspaper, long locked in a circulation battle with the even more sensational rival, the New York Post, survived as one of the nation’s top-selling newspapers in the 21st century, though its circulation has dropped significantly from its mid-20th-century peak.
The News has always emphasized photography; a camera is part of its logo from the earliest days. The newspaper was an early user of the Associated Press wirephoto service in the 1920s, and built up a staff of photographers to provide photos for its stories. The News was an early advocate of civil rights for blacks and women, and it fought against the Ku Klux Klan. The paper also covered political wrongdoing such as the Teapot Dome Scandal and social intrigue such as the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, which led to the latter’s abdication.
In 1948 the News established WPIX, a television station whose call letters were based on its nickname; it later bought what became WPIX-FM. Those two stations remain in the old News building, now known as Manhattan West. The News at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, as well as offices at City Hall and within One Police Plaza.
The newspaper was twice nearly put out of business during major strikes by its workers in 1982 and 1991, and at times struggled to maintain profitability. In 2017, the paper was purchased for $1 by Chicago-based media company Tronc, which plans to keep it going as a tabloid. Its current editor is Craig Lahiff. The News continues to include large and prominent photographs, intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, comics, a sports section, and an opinion section.