New York Daily News is a reputable media company founded in 1919 and the first tabloid newspaper published in the United States. The newspaper has a large audience and is widely regarded as one of the best-read newspapers in the world. The newspaper has a wide range of editorial content covering a variety of topics and is known for its in-depth and accurate reporting. The newspaper has a long history of supporting the rights of free speech and freedom of the press and has earned many awards for its journalism. In addition, the newspaper is a major contributor to the city of New York’s economy and has donated millions of dollars to charities in the past.
The paper is also renowned for its investigative work and its focus on the city’s most important issues. The newspaper has won numerous awards for its news and editorial coverage, including the Pulitzer Prize. In recent years the newspaper has expanded its online presence, with its website receiving millions of visitors each month. The website includes a number of online communities and allows readers to customize their content by selecting the most relevant stories to read.
In the 1940s through the 1960s, the News echoed the same themes of right-wing populism as the National Review and other publications favored by William Buckley—blaming bureaucrats, diplomats, taxes, regulation, foreign aid to “unworthy” allies, and, above all, communists and their supposed fellow travelers. But whereas the National Review was intellectual and interventionist, the Daily News was populist and isolationist.
By the time of its heyday in the mid-twentieth century, the News commanded a huge circulation, with weekly and Sunday editions each selling over 2 million copies. But, despite its hefty numbers, the conventional wisdom was that the News had little influence on politicians. Even the News’s own journalists felt this way, as evidenced by an oral history interview with the legendary Washington correspondent Frank Holeman in which he mused that, “Nobody likes the News except the goddamn readers—and the goddamn politicians don’t pay any attention.”
After his purchase of the News in 1992, Zuckerman made dramatic changes to the newspaper, increasing staff and dramatically expanding its editorial page. He also negotiated with the newspaper’s nine unions, notably disregarding lifetime job guarantees for 167 printers and reducing its printing costs. The result was that the News, in its first year of operation under Zuckerman’s ownership, operated in the black.
The Daily News remained in its landmark building on East 42nd Street designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood until 1995. The building was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman films.
Under the leadership of publisher and editor-in-chief Mortimer Zuckerman, Debby Krenek, and senior editors, the Daily News developed a reputation, partly through litigation, for protecting its First Amendment rights. For instance, the newspaper forced courts to unseal records relating to the city’s Board of Education and strengthened public access to family court documents.