A daily newspaper that reports on local, national, and international news. Typically it also includes editorial commentary and features.
The New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. It was founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson and was a subsidiary of the Tribune Company. It attracted readers by featuring sensational crime, scandal, and violence stories, lurid photographs, and cartoons. Its circulation peaked at 2.4 million copies per day in the 1950s. It was owned by Mortimer Zuckerman until it was sold to Tronc in 2017 for $1.
From the 1940s until the 1960s, the Daily News espoused conservative populism. In the 1970s it shifted to a more liberal stance. From the early 1920s, it emphasized political wrongdoing and social intrigue, including scandals surrounding the Teapot Dome Scandal and the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII that led to her abdication. It also portrayed the Yellow Peril, warning of the dangers posed to Britain by Chinese immigration.
In 1948, the News established WPIX-TV in New York City whose call letters were based on its nickname, as well as a radio station whose calls letters were inspired by the names of several of its columnists. Both the television and radio station remain in the historic art deco Daily News Building, a city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood.
In 2006, the News launched an Irish edition which is printed in Dublin, with the masthead displaying a green rectangle and the word “IRISH” instead of the Royal Arms. The paper also publishes Weekend, a TV guide that is included free with the Saturday Daily Mail and which shares content with the British version.