A daily news is a newspaper published each day, usually with articles covering the latest current events and local news. It can also include news analysis, sports and weather. Some newspapers are owned by national or international media companies, while others are independently owned and operated. A daily news can also refer to a website that provides the latest information and updates on a particular topic.
The first tabloid newspaper was The New York Daily News, launched in 1905, and reaching its peak circulation in 1947 at 2.4 million copies a day. The paper was often viewed as one of the most sensational in the nation, frequently showcasing scandalous and titillating stories, as well as more serious reporting. It was an early user of AP wirephotography and had several staff photographers, as well as a reputation for protecting the First Amendment rights of its readers.
In the mid-1970s, a series of misfortunes began to plague the Daily News, including a loss of subscribers due to a price increase and production issues, as well as the end of the successful daily strip cartoon BET Weekend for African Americans. The News also struggled to compete with its much larger rivals, the New York Times and the New York Post, both of which offered broader coverage and had more sophisticated advertising departments.
By 1978, the Daily News was suffering a sharp decline in readership and faced bankruptcy. The paper’s ten print unions, which represented nearly all of the company’s employees, struck for five months, and although the News continued to publish using non-union replacement workers, it suffered significant losses.
The Daily News rebounded in the 1980s, and by 1990 it was the largest newspaper in the city with a daily circulation of almost one million. In the late 1990s, the News lost a major chunk of its circulation to online sources and suffered declining revenue from its advertising sales. The emergence of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in 2016 provided the Daily News with an opportunity to re-establish itself, and it did so by reverting to its more sensational roots. The News gleefully mocked Trump, even using a photograph of the Statue of Liberty’s middle finger as a way to scold him.
Weekly newspapers may cover local government, schools, crime, business, and lifestyles. They also have public-record sections that include summaries of police and fire-department reports, court dispositions (or verdicts in criminal cases) and notices about building permits or other activities that local governments are required to notify the public about. The staff of a weekly newspaper is generally smaller than that of a daily, and the same employees can sometimes have multiple duties. For example, a news editor may also be responsible for selling advertising space in the newspaper. This type of staffing allows a smaller weekly to remain affordable and competitive with daily newspapers in its area.