Daily News
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| description | daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Daily News, LP |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| First edition | June 26, 1919 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Widespread edition | 338,944 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Jim Rich |
| editor | Mortimer Zuckerman |
| Web link | nydailynews.com |
The Daily News is a newspaper from New York City . It was founded in 1919 and was the first daily newspaper to appear in a small format (tabloid) . It is the seventh largest newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 338,944 . She has won ten Pulitzer Prizes to date and is part of the Tronc media group .
history
The Daily News was founded by Joseph Medill Patterson . He and his cousin Robert R. McCormick were co-editors of the Chicago Tribune and grandson of founder Joseph Tribune Medill. When they could no longer agree on the editorial content of the Tribune, the two decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson should launch a new newspaper in New York. On the way back, Patterson met Alfred Harmsworth , editor of the Daily Mirror , a London tabloid. Impressed by the advantages of the small format, Patterson brought out the Daily News on June 26, 1919.
The Daily News was not an instant hit, in August 1919 the circulation was just 26,625. However, many New York commuters found the small format easier to use and the readership grew steadily. At the first birthday of the newspaper in June 1920 the circulation was over 100,000 and in 1925 it was already over a million.
In 1982 and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News nearly went out of business. In 1982 the parent company Tribune put the newspaper up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell helped keep the newspaper running. He died shortly afterwards and in 1993 Mortimer Zuckerman bought the newspaper and is still its editor today.
A son of Alfred Döblin , Peter Döblin, worked as a typesetter for the Daily News .
On September 4, 2017, the Chicago-based media group Tronc , which also owns The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune , announced the complete takeover of Daily News LP. The purchase price is said to have been symbolically 1 dollar due to the assumed debts.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 6-Month Average Print & Digital Replica Circulation For The Period Ended March, 2014 , accessed January 18, 2015
- ↑ Allen M. Jalon: A New Jersey Tale of Two Alfred Doblins - and One Umlaut , at forward.com, accessed March 31, 2016