Daily News is a newspaper that covers local and national news in the city of New York. Its award-winning writers, columnists and opinion formers bring you news from the world’s greatest city and beyond. With New York exclusives, politics, gossip and the best in sports, no one does it better than the Daily News.
The Daily News has a rich history of investigative journalism and sensational front page headlines. It is a newspaper that has a reputation for boldly reporting controversial and taboo subjects, such as the sexual abuse of children, in order to grab readers’ attention. It is also known for its investigative reporting into corruption within government agencies and corporate America.
In the era of the mass media, when newspapers had the largest distribution of any medium, the Daily News was often considered to be the most influential newspaper in the United States. Its brassy and pictorial coverage was a model for many other papers to follow. In 1947, it reached its peak of circulation with a total of 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million Sundays, solidifying its position as the nation’s top-read newspaper.
By the turn of the 21st century, the Daily News was still a major metropolitan newspaper but its circulation had dropped significantly from its mid-20th-century peak. It fought back with the introduction of its quarterly BET Weekend insert, and in 1996 moved from its iconic home, the News Building on 220 East 42nd Street, to 5 Manhattan West.
A year after the move, in 1998, a multi-union strike caused by a labor dispute cost the paper $60 million and saw its daily circulation plummet to below half a million. The next year, the newspaper was saved by a bidding war between Atlantic owner Mort Zuckerman and publisher Conrad Black’s Hollinger Inc, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Black’s offer was less than the $140 million Zuckerman was asking but was accepted due to the contracts he had already negotiated with the paper’s ten unions.
Today the New York Daily News has a smaller staff than it did in the 1990s but is still a highly influential newspaper in the United States, especially when it comes to covering breaking news and stories that have a strong impact on people in the city of New York. Its front pages still feature bold and provocative images, including the famous image taken in 1928 when a reporter strapped a camera to his leg and captured a photo of Ruth Snyder being electrocuted in the electric chair. The image was used as the front page of the Daily News and carried the headline “DEAD!”. The News has a number of digital editions for your computer and tablet that allow you to read the newspaper with ease. These include an E-dition that allows you to download newspapers for offline reading, and a mobile app that provides a quick and easy way to browse the latest news articles.