Daily news is a publication that provides up-to-date information on various topics and interests. It covers local and national news, politics, crime, sports, and entertainment. It also contains opinion pieces and editorials that offer different viewpoints on current events. It is available in print, on the internet, and through mobile applications. It is one of the most influential and trusted news sources in the country.
The daily news was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City. It was the first tabloid newspaper in the United States and at its peak circulation reached 2.4 million copies a day. It attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence and lurid photographs, as well as cartoons and other entertainment features. The paper was also known for its editorials, which often criticized government officials and public figures for their policies or actions.
Until 1992 the Daily News was owned by newspaper holding company Hollinger, Inc. and had a reputation for aggressively protecting First Amendment rights through its use of litigation. For example, it won a legal battle to force the city to unseal death penalty records, made public information about the city school board, and strengthened access to family court records. The newspaper was acquired in 1992 by businessman Mortimer Zuckerman, who outbid a competing bid from Canadian publisher Conrad Black and won the support of nine of the paper’s ten unions.
Zuckerman invested $60 million in the paper to purchase Goss Newsliner presses, which would enable it to publish in color and compete more effectively with its rival, USA Today. The investment paid off, and in its first year under his ownership the Daily News had an operating profit.
In 1996 the newspaper began publishing a monthly insert called BET Weekend in association with the Black Entertainment Television Inc. The magazine targeted African Americans and was distributed in the New York metropolitan area. In 1997 the newspaper launched an online version of its website and in 1998 it began publishing a weekly section for Spanish-speaking readers called El Diario Latino.
In 1999 the Daily News purchased a two-story building at 450 West 33rd Street in lower Manhattan, which became its permanent home. The former headquarters at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, was demolished in 1995, but its art deco News Building at 42nd Street and Third Avenue still stands, with a giant globe and weather instruments in the lobby. It is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West. The News’s ten-story, modernized facility at 34th Street and 10th Avenue was completed in 2013. It houses an extensive archive of the newspaper’s historical photographs. In addition, the facility is the location of the newspaper’s radio station WPIX-FM.
