The Daily News is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1919. It was the first successful tabloid in America and attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, lurid photographs, and cartoons. In 1947, the paper’s circulation reached 2.4 million daily, making it the nation’s largest newspaper. The brassy, pictorial New York Daily News “led all the rest”, according to Time magazine at the time.
The daily newspaper includes large and prominent photographs, intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, a sports section, and an opinion section. The News also has a radio station, WPIX, which was originally located in the newspaper’s 42nd Street home, an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The News moved to 450 West 33rd Street (now known as 5 Manhattan West) in 1995.
In the 1990s, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Pete Hamill and later Debby Krenek, the Daily News developed a reputation for taking strong stands on controversial issues, especially in New York City. The paper won Pulitzer Prizes in 1996 for E. R. Shipp’s pieces on race and welfare and again in 1998 for Mike McAlary’s coverage of police brutality against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. The Daily News also launched a quarterly (later monthly) insert called BET Weekend for African Americans, which by 1997 had a circulation of more than a million nationwide.
During this period, the Daily News was also one of the few papers in the United States to publish color pictures on their front page, as well as the only major metropolitan newspaper to do so. In the early 2000s, the Daily News began to decline. By the early 2010s, its print and online editions had been losing money and readership. The emergence of Trump and massive public interest in his campaign offered the News an opportunity to re-establish itself amongst New York’s most popular media outlets. The paper harked back to its roots, employing a more provocative style and tone, and even giving Republican Senator Ted Cruz the middle finger via the Statue of Liberty’s hand.
The Daily News relaunched its website in 2011 and began offering a digital version of its newspaper. The Daily News eNewspaper is free to access for all registered users, and it provides an easy way for readers to keep up with the latest stories from the City of New York and around the world. In addition to a traditional newspaper format, the eNewspaper offers interactive maps and videos, the ability to share articles on social media, and a digital edition of its Sunday newspaper. The eNewspaper can be accessed by clicking on the link on the top of the News homepage. eNewspaper users can also download the newspaper for offline reading. The Daily News eNewspaper also provides a mobile application.