Daily News is a morning tabloid newspaper founded in 1919 and once the largest-circulation paper in the United States. Originally published as the Illustrated Daily News, it attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime and scandal, lurid photographs, and cartoons and other entertainment features. It was the first successful tabloid in America and remained the nation’s leading newspaper until its decline in the mid-20th century.
Today the newspaper is owned by Tronc and remains headquartered in the New York City landmark Daily News Building at 220 East 42nd Street (formerly known as Manhattan West) in the Bronx, which was designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The newspaper maintains local offices in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island and has a bureau within One Police Plaza at City Hall. It also publishes a free afternoon newspaper called Sunday News.
The newspaper carries out extensive city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, comics, and sports coverage. In addition, it is known for its political stance. In the 1940s and 1950s it espoused conservative populism, but in the 1990s it began shifting to a more moderately liberal position. Its editorial board is largely independent of its owners.
The Yale Daily News is a student newspaper that is printed Monday through Friday during the academic year at the University of Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. The News is the oldest college daily newspaper in the country and is financially and editorially independent of Yale University. It is the only nationally circulated newspaper with a dedicated staff of professional journalists and the only major New England daily to publish a comprehensive political column. In addition to the daily edition, the News publishes several special issues each year including a Yale-Harvard Game Day issue, Commencement issue and a first year issue, in collaboration with the university’s cultural centers and affiliated student groups. It has also produced a series of special issues celebrating the indigenous, black, and Asian American communities at Yale in collaboration with those community groups. It also publishes the Yale Daily News Magazine, an annual magazine that showcases campus and community news and feature stories.
