A daily newspaper that reports current events, news, and information of interest to the public. It is typically issued every day and contains articles about politics, business, sports, and other topics of public interest. It is not to be confused with a periodical that is issued weekly or monthly, such as the magazine Newsweek.
The New York City Daily News, also known as the Daily News, is an American morning tabloid newspaper founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and owned by the Tribune Company of Chicago. It was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States and reached its peak circulation in 1947. It attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime and scandal, lurid photographs, and cartoons and other entertainment features.
Today, the newspaper has a large staff and an extensive website. It maintains offices at City Hall and One Police Plaza in Manhattan, and shares a newsroom with the New York Post. The paper publishes intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip and entertainment stories, classified ads, a comic section, sports, and opinion sections. Its flagship building at 220 East 42nd Street, an art deco structure designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, was the model for the Daily Planet in the first two Superman films and a former News subsidiary, WPIX-TV, still occupies the landmark site.
The Daily News is a major newspaper and its writers have won many accolades. Ad Fontes Media rates it in the Skews Left category for bias and in the Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues category for reliability. In 2017 its owner, Mortimer Zuckerman, sold the Daily News to Tronc for $1.
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