A daily news is a newspaper that carries daily news, usually of a national or international nature. Usually, it also provides a wide variety of other material such as sports, feature articles and comics. Many large newspapers have a section dedicated to daily news.
The term is used to distinguish from a newspaper with the same name published in New York City between 1855 and 1906. A daily news is often considered to be the leading edition of a newspaper group, although this is not always true and there are many examples of newspapers that are more widely read than some of the best-known daily news.
In the United States, the Daily News (not to be confused with the earlier Illustrated Daily News) was a tabloid-format newspaper established in 1919 and once had the highest circulation of any daily newspaper in the world. It moved into the Art Deco Daily News Building on 42nd Street, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, in 1929 and remained there until 1995. It now is located at 450 West 33rd Street. The building was later renamed 5 Manhattan West, but the Daily News’s former radio subsidiary, WPIX-TV, still occupies part of the former building, using the call letters from its namesake newspaper.
Its focus during its heyday was on politics and public affairs, and it built up a staff of well-known writers, particularly in the field of foreign news. In the early 1930s it became a pioneer in wire photo journalism, and was an early purchaser of Associated Press photographs. It was also one of the earliest adopters of the new technology of sound recording, and developed its own radio program in 1948, called The Daily News Hour.
In the late 19th century it was locked in a battle for readers with the more sensational rival tabloid New York Post. Eventually, the paper fell into financial difficulties and closed in 1978. The current New York Daily News is a tabloid format newspaper that serves the city of New York and its surrounding area. It publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year, as well as several special issues each year. These are typically produced in collaboration with Yale’s various cultural centers and affiliated student groups. It is the nation’s oldest college daily newspaper.