What Is a Daily News?

A daily news is a newspaper that comes out on a regular schedule. It usually includes news, sports, obituaries and a variety of other features. It may also have editorials and letters to the editor. Many are printed on glossy paper and include a lot of photographs. Some are also available online.

The New York Daily News is a large daily tabloid newspaper in the United States that was founded in 1919. The newspaper gained success during the 1920s with its sensational pictorial coverage of scandal and crime. It was an early user of the Associated Press wirephoto service and had a full staff of photographers. Its front page headlines screamed for reader attention, and it was not afraid to go to extreme lengths to achieve it. The newspaper famously published a photo of Ruth Snyder mid-electrocution to illustrate a story about the murder of her husband.

In the 1980s the New York Daily News was losing money, but was not close to closing. Its parent company, the Tribune Company, offered the newspaper for sale, but was unsuccessful in finding a buyer. The Tribune Company even considered closing the newspaper altogether, but that would have been too costly due to severance pay and pensions for the hundreds of employees.

The Daily News was saved from extinction by media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman. He invested $60 million in color presses to enable the Daily News to compete with USA Today, and by 1993 it was profitable again. In addition to intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip and classified ads, the newspaper featured a comics section, a sports section, and an opinion section.

Like a daily newspaper, most weekly newspapers cover local news in their circulation area. They often have a local government or business pages and a section devoted to schools. In addition, many weeklies have lifestyle sections that feature theater and arts reviews, restaurant and food reviews and a community calendar.

Some weeklies have special issues each year to mark a specific event, such as the Yale Daily News’ annual Commencement Issue or the Yale-Harvard football game issue. Others have special sections dedicated to African American, Latino and Asian American communities in collaboration with those groups.

Unlike a daily newspaper, most weekly newspapers come out on Wednesday or Thursday. Those that are larger, such as those owned by chain publishers, may publish on Sunday.

The staff of a weekly newspaper varies, depending on the size of the publication and its circulation area. Often, one person will hold multiple positions, such as serving as the news editor and selling advertising. Some small weekly newspapers have a separate staff for each of the various beats (schools, local government, businesses, etc). The size of a newsroom can range from several reporters to as few as one person who covers the entire newspaper’s circulation area. The newspaper’s production staff may also include editors, art directors and copy writers. Once all the articles and advertisements have been laid out, a proof is printed out to make sure everything is correct before the pages are sent to the printing plant (either at the newspaper office or at an off-site publishing facility).