Daily news is a tabloid newspaper published every day except Sunday. It contains a variety of sections including intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, a sports section, and comics. In addition, it contains large and prominent photographs. In the past, it was one of the largest and most successful tabloid newspapers in the United States.
Founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson, the paper became known as the Daily News and established its reputation for sensational crime, scandal, and violence coverage, lurid photographs, and cartoons and other entertainment features. By 1930 it had become the nation’s highest-circulation daily newspaper and was a leader in tabloid journalism. Its building at 220 East 42nd Street, designed by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, became an official city and national landmark. The News moved to 450 West 33rd Street (now known as Manhattan West) in 1995, but the 42nd Street location is still used by the former News subsidiary WPIX-TV and still has its giant globe in the lobby.
From the 1940s to the mid-1960s, the News espoused conservative populism. From the 1970s to the 1990s, it moved toward a moderately liberal stance and was an important alternative to the more conservative New York Post. In the 21st century it remained the largest circulation morning daily in the United States, although it suffered from a declining readership and was losing ground to its more sensational rival tabloid, the New York Post. In 2017, the Daily News was sold to Tronc, a Chicago-based media company.