Daily News
The December 16, 2005 front page of the Daily News
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Mortimer Zuckerman
Publisher	Mortimer Zuckerman
Founded	1919
Headquarters	450 W. 33 Street New York, NY 10001  United States
Website: nydailynews.com

Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The New York landmark, still standing, housed the paper until the mid-1990s.

The Daily News of New York City is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the United States with a circulation of 693,382, as of October 31, 2006. The paper, the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid form, first rolled off the printing presses in 1919. It is owned and run by Mortimer Zuckerman. It has won ten Pulitzer Prizes throughout its history.[1] Image File history File links NYDailyNews. ... -1... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mort Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin (Mort) Zuckerman (born 1937, in Montreal, Canada) is a self-made American billionaire magazine editor, publisher, and real estate tycoon. ... Mort Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin (Mort) Zuckerman (born 1937, in Montreal, Canada) is a self-made American billionaire magazine editor, publisher, and real estate tycoon. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... NY redirects here. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Download high resolution version (345x661, 97 KB)photo courtesy of Dover Publications Hugh Ferriss File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (345x661, 97 KB)photo courtesy of Dover Publications Hugh Ferriss File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Daily News Building, on which Howells collaborated with Raymond Hood John Mead Howells (August 14, 1868 - September 22, 1959) was an American architect. ... Raymond M. Hood (March 29, 1881 - August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. ... Hugh Ferriss at work, c. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ... Mort Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin (Mort) Zuckerman (born 1937, in Montreal, Canada) is a self-made American billionaire magazine editor, publisher, and real estate tycoon. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ...

History

The News carried the well-known slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs, and a camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. (The News's current slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper" while another slogan was "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York"). The Daily News continues to include large and prominent photographs, for news, entertainment and sports, as well as intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, comics, a sports section, and an opinion section. Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a sensor or film. ... Gossip column A gossip column is an article in a newspaper or magazine written by a gossip columnist. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...

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The newspaper was founded by Joseph Medill Patterson, a member of the family that published the Chicago Tribune; from its founding until 1991 was owned by the Tribune. The News later established WPIX (Channel 11 in New York City) and WPIX-FM. Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 - May 26, 1946) was an American journalist and publisher and the older brother of fellow publisher Cissy Patterson. ... The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City. ... WQCD, known on-air as CD 101. ...

At one point in the early 1990s, the Daily News almost went out of business. However, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to The News to help it stay in business. When Maxwell died shortly thereafter, The News seceded from his publishing empire, which eventually splintered under allegations about whether he had the financial backing to sustain it. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993. The 1990s decade refers to the years from the start of 1990 to the end of 1999. ... Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing business. ...

Headquarters

From the 1930s to 1990s, The News was based in a landmark skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The paper moved to 33rd Street in the mid-1990s, but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman movies). WPIX-TV remains in the building, although it now partners with Newsday, as both are owned by Tribune. The Daily News Building, on which Howells collaborated with Raymond Hood John Mead Howells (August 14, 1868 - September 22, 1959) was an American architect. ... Raymond M. Hood (March 29, 1881 - August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. ... The Daily Planet is a fictional broadsheet newspaper that appears in Superman stories published by DC Comics. ... Superman is a comic book superhero, originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area. ...

Editorial opinion

The Daily News is generally seen as politically midway between the two other major New York City dailies, the more liberal New York Times, and the extremely conservative New York Post, though tending more in the direction of liberalism. Typically, its editorial page espouses a liberal position on social issues like abortion, while advocating more conservative positions on crime and foreign policy, including pro-Israel and anti-Castro editorials and columns. This was not always the case, as the Daily News, during its partnership with the Chicago Tribune, usually shared the Tribune's staunch conservative viewpoint, while the Post was considered a liberal newspaper. The two papers had reversed their ideologies by the late 1970s, largely due to changing city demographics and the purchase of the Post by Rupert Murdoch. American liberalism—that is, liberalism in the United States of America—is a broad political and philosophical mindset, favoring individual liberty, and opposing restrictions on liberty, whether they come from established religion, from government regulation, from the existing class structure, or from multi-national corporations. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... American conservatism is a constellation of political ideologies within the United States under the blanket heading of conservative. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Style and reputation

Though its competition with the Post has occasionally led the Daily News to engage in some of the more sensationalist tactics of its competitor, it is still respected in the industry for the quality of its contributors (which past and present have included Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, William Reel, David Hinckley, Mike Lupica, Juan Gonzalez, Ronan Keenan, John Melia, and Chris Allbritton), its solid coverage of the city, and its photos. Its Voice of the People letters section (which often allows letter writers, called Voicers, to respond to other letter writers) is seen as a good way to read the pulse of the city. Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930 in Jamaica, New York) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. ... Pete Hamill Pete Hamill (born 1935) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. ... Michael Thomas Lupica (born May 11, 1953) is a New York City author and a sports columnist for the New York Daily News. ... Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. ... Chris Allbritton is a web logger and journalist, best known for starting the Web log Back to Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. ...

Notable front pages

The CRY BABY cover in 1995 illustrated by Ed Murawinski.

The Drop Dead cover in 1975

The News' is known for its often colorful and blunt front page headlines, several of which have achieved iconic status. Famous headlines from the Daily News include: Image File history File links Nydailynews_newt. ... Image File history File links Nydailynews_newt. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Historic headline from the New York Daily News, taken from [1] This work is copyrighted. ... Historic headline from the New York Daily News, taken from [1] This work is copyrighted. ...

• DEAD! (Picture of the execution of Ruth Snyder, 1928)
• WHO'S A BUM! (describing the Brooklyn Dodgers' championship of 1955)
• ROCKY QUITS (Upon the resigniation of Nelson Rockefeller as governor of New York in order to assume the chairmanship of the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, November 1973.)
• FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD (bankruptcy of New York City government and the refusal of President Gerald Ford to give financial assistance to the city prompted this headline in 1975; the paper nonetheless endorsed him for President the next year)
• TOP COP ADMITS HANKY PANKY (about the marital travails of then-Police Commissioner Ben Ward in 1984)
• BOULEVARD OF DEATH (referring to Queens Boulevard in Queens, where 72 people were killed in traffic accidents between 1993 and 2000)
• CRY BABY (referring to then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in 1995, for his shutting down the US government during budget talks)
• THE BOY WHO FOOLED NEW YORK (about a 13-year-old boy named Edwin Sabillon who ran away from his home in the Honduras to New York, lying about his mother dying in Hurricane Mitch and him going to live with his father in New York. In actuality, his mother abandoned him and his father had died of AIDS months before, which he could not believe. August 31, 1999)
• IT'S WAR (Picture of the second plane going into the World Trade Center, 2001)
• AIR HEADS (referring to the pilots of a plane that ventured into restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., in May 2005)
• HIS FAULT (Mike Lupica and Ronan Keenan accused Isiah Thomas of being responsible for the Knicks-Nuggets brawl, writing an editorial column called The Garden of Evil. December 18, 2006)

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Daily Planet

Looking west down 42nd street, the Daily News building is on the left.

The Daily News served as the model for the Daily Planet in the Superman movies, beginning with Superman: The Movie in 1978. The News Building stood in for the Daily Planet Building, with the large globe in the real-life lobby serving as a handy emblem for the Planet. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1584 KB) Own work, 2006 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1584 KB) Own work, 2006 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... The Daily Planet is a fictional broadsheet newspaper that appears in Superman stories published by DC Comics. ... Superman is a comic book superhero, originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Superman Superman, also known as Superman: The Movie, is a 1978 Warner Bros. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

When Superman makes his public debut, the Planet carries the headline, "CAPED WONDER STUNS CITY," while Planet editor Perry White compares it to the other papers in Metropolis, which also seem to mirror the New York papers: Perry White is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comics, and is the editor-in-chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet. ... Athens Auckland Bangkok Berlin Buenos Aires Calgary Chicago Denver Detroit Manila Frankfurt am Main Hong Kong Jakarta Johannesburg Karachi London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Miami Montreal Mumbai Moscow New York City Osaka Paris Seattle São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Warsaw A metropolis...

• The Metropolis Post, a tabloid: "IT FLIES!"
• The Daily News, a tabloid, also resembling its New York namesake: "LOOK MA - NO WIRES!"
• The Metropolis Times, a broadsheet: "BLUE BOMB BUZZES METROPOLIS."

See also

• Media of New York City
• Scratch n' Match, the sweepstakes that offers winner up to $100,000 cash
• Lloyd Grove, gossip columnist

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References

External links

• Official website
• Photographic essay on the Daily News Building on 42nd Street