Great Lakes Daily News is a collection of news articles, curated by staff at the Great Lakes Commission, from professional media sources in the United States and Canada. The content provides a wide range of perspectives on current issues that affect the Great Lakes. The views and opinions presented do not necessarily reflect those of the Commission or its member countries, party states and provinces.
The Great Lakes Commission is pleased to present this collection of recent media coverage from a variety of sources, including national, regional and local publications. Great Lakes Daily News is a valuable source of information that can help to better understand the complex issues facing our region and the impact these issues have on the citizens who live here.
Founded in 1919, the New York Daily News was America’s first tabloid newspaper and remains one of the nation’s most widely read daily newspapers. The newspaper is currently owned by tronc, the Tribune Publishing Company’s newspaper division, and is headquartered in the historic art deco Daily News building in New York City.
For much of its history, the Daily News was known as “New York’s Picture Newspaper” because of its emphasis on photographs; a camera has been part of the newspaper’s logo from the start. It also emphasized political wrongdoing, such as the Teapot Dome Scandal and social intrigue such as the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII that led to his abdication.
In 1992 Mortimer Zuckerman outbid Canadian publisher Conrad Black to purchase the Daily News. In the aftermath, he reached settlements with nine of the paper’s ten unions but failed to reach agreement with its largest union, the New York Newspaper Guild. The unions went on strike in October 1990, which lasted five months and resulted in the paper publishing using replacement workers and non-union employees. In 1997 Pete Hamill was hired to be editor-in-chief, bringing a new sensibility to the newspaper as it began a renewed battle with the rival New York Post.