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February 5, 1921 front pageThe Daily News was founded by in 1919, as the Illustrated Daily News. (It was not connected to an earlier, which was founded in 1855, flourished under, and ceased publication in December 1906.) Patterson and his cousin, were co-publishers of the and grandsons of founder Joseph Medill.When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune-owned newspaper in New York. On his return, Patterson met with, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the, London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 26, 1919.The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925, over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday.The Daily News carried the slogan 'New York's Picture Newspaper' from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs.
A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is 'New York's Hometown Newspaper', while another has been 'The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York'.
The Daily News continues to include large and prominent, for news, entertainment and sports, as well as intense city news coverage, a section, and an opinion section.News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of 'radio cars'.Prominent sports have included,. Columnists have included. Editorial cartoonists have included.The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980 and August 28, 1981; this competed with the, which had earlier launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper.
Occasional 'P.M. Editions' were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of as publisher.In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. When Maxwell died shortly thereafter in 1991, the News seceded from his publishing empire. It eventually splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor, held the News together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company.
Bought the paper in 1993.From its founding until 1991, the Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company. In 1948, the News established (Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on the News 's nickname of 'New York's Picture Newspaper'; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known as. The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building.
The radio station was purchased by, and since 2014 has been owned by as an FM simulcast of.The News also maintains local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, at, within, and at the various state and federal courthouses in the city.In January 2012, former and New York Post editor was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News. Myler was replaced by his deputy in September 2015.On September 4, 2017, the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired the Daily News. Tronc had bought the Daily News for $1, assuming 'operational and pension liabilities'. By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays. In July 2018, tronc fired half of the paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of tronc-owned in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images and that were later deleted were posted on its feed. Editorial stance and style journalist Alan Feuer said the Daily News focuses heavily on 'deep sourcing and doorstep reporting', providing city-centered 'crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues. rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives'. According to Feuer, the paper is known for 'speaking to and for the city’s working class' and for 'its crusades against municipal misconduct'.The New York Times has described the Daily News 's editorial stance as 'flexibly centrist' with a 'high-minded, if populist, legacy'.
The News endorsed Republican in the 2004 presidential election, Democrat in 2008, Republican in 2012, and Democrat in 2016. Headquarters.
And, architects, rendering. The landmark building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.From its founding, it was based at 23 Park Place, a block from, and two blocks from, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper.From 1929 to 1995, the Daily News was based in the landmark skyscraper at near Second Avenue, designed. The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street in 1995, but the 42nd Street location is still known as and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the building of the first two films). The former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building.The third headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into. The building is now the world headquarters of the.In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.
Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from. In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant.
In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near —just four blocks north of its rival. The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013.Printing facilities In 1993, the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near in.In 2009, the paper spent $150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs.In 2011, the company spent $100 million to buy three new presses, using a $41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the. Pulitzer Prizes The Daily News has won eleven.In, Daily News columnist won the for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on, who was sodomized and tortured by.In, the News won the for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the had become.
The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper 'for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation.' In 2017, the Daily News was awarded the in collaboration with non-profit 'for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.' Noteworthy front pages In 1928, a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of being executed in the.
The next day's newspaper carried the headline 'DEAD!' .On October 29, 1975, gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy.
The front page of the October 30, 1975 Daily News read: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD” Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election.In the year leading up to the, the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it and, with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again demonstrate its place in the city's media.Following the, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page displayed 'GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS' along with tweets from politicians offering. The paper advocated for, condemning what it described as 'empty platitudes and angry rhetoric' rather than action 'in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country.' The provocative headline received both praise and criticism.On January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate of disparaged 'New York values' in a Republican primary debate, the News responded with a cover page headline reading 'DROP DEAD, TED' and showing the giving the. Controversies The Daily News supported the.
On March 14, 2003, six days before the, the Daily News reported 'President Bush is targeting an aggressive, dangerous, psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction. With Saddam in power, there can be no peace. One argument you hear raised against war is fear of retaliation: America mustn't upset the terrorists. After 9/11, does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave.'
On December 20, 2016, Daily News columnist compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat by Jewish student, saying 'justice has been served.' Has demanded an official apology from Daily News. See also.
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