New York Daily News

{{distinguish|text=Illustrated Daily News, published in Los Angeles as a precursor of the Los Angeles Mirror and eventually the Los Angeles Times}}

File:Finest picture front page.jpg, wife of then President-elect Warren G. Harding, on cover of the Daily News (February 5, 1921, front page)]]

The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick. The two were co-publishers of the Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill.Current Biography 1942, pp. 648–51: "Patterson, Joseph Medill" as an imitation of the successful British newspaper Daily Mirror. When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune-owned newspaper in New York. On his return, Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror, London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24, 1919 as Illustrated Daily News. The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993.{{cite web |last1=McShane |first1=Larry |title=Mortimer B. Zuckerman rescued New York Daily News from demise by buying the tabloid |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mortimer-b-zuckerman-rescued-new-york-daily-news-demise-article-1.3472081 |website=nydailynews.com |date=September 5, 2017 |publisher=New York Daily News |access-date=19 January 2020}}

The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. Still, many of New York's subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925 over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday.{{cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |title=The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era's End |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/nyregion/the-daily-news-layoffs-and-digital-shift-may-signal-the-tabloid-eras-end.html |access-date=July 31, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=September 27, 2015}}

The Daily News carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991 for its emphasis on photographs. A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one.{{cite news |last1=Zhang |first1=Michael |title=NY Daily News Cuts All Photographers |url=https://petapixel.com/2018/07/26/ny-daily-news-cuts-all-photographers/ |newspaper=Petapixel |date=July 26, 2018 |access-date=23 April 2022}} It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer in 1942 when Evelyn Straus was hired.{{cite journal |last1=Price |first1=Jack |title=N. Y. Daily News Training Girl Photographer |journal=Editor & Publisher |date=October 24, 1942 |volume=75 |issue=43 |page=20 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1942-10-24_75_43/page/20/mode/1up |access-date=3 February 2022 |publisher=Editor & Publisher Company |location=New York, New York |issn=0013-094X}}{{cite book |ref={{harvid|Hermann|Press Photographers Assn.|2015}} |last1=Hermann |first1=Marc A. |author2=New York Press Photographers Association |author2-link=New York Press Photographers Association |title=New York Press Photographers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vp2gCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |date=2015 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=978-1-4396-5340-1}}{{Rp|8, 31–32}} The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another 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.

News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of "radio cars". Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark, and Ed Murawinski. Columnists have included Walter Kaner. Editorial cartoonists have included C. D. Batchelor.

In 1948, the News established WPIX (Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on the News{{'}}s nickname of "New York's Picture Newspaper"; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known as WFAN-FM. The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. The radio station was purchased by Emmis Communications, and since 2014 has been owned by CBS Radio as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake.

The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981;{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/clay-felker-founder-new-york-magazine-dies-age-82-article-1.351317 |last1=Moritz|first1=Owen|title=Clay Felker, founder of New York magazine, dies at age 82 |work=New York Daily News |date=1 July 2008 |access-date=26 January 2019}} this competed with the New York Post, which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978.{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Roger Wood, a Brazen New York Post Editor, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/business/media/roger-wood-new-york-post-editor-dies-at-87.html |website=The New York Times|date=November 5, 2012|access-date=21 September 2020}} Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/29/nyregion/daily-news-publishes-last-tonight-edition.html |title=Daily News publishes last Tonight edition |work=The New York Times |date=29 August 1981 |access-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126190616/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/29/nyregion/daily-news-publishes-last-tonight-edition.html |archive-date=26 January 2019}}

From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, the multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of the News were printed during this time.{{cite news| title= Pressmen Reach Tentative Pact In 84-Day N.Y. Newspaper Strike|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/02/pressmen-reach-tentative-pact-in-84-day-ny-newspaper-strike/22367071-f86d-4525-9066-104d887e2c6b/}}

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In 1982 and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale.{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Fred |title=Weakness of the 'News' in review |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-03-16_11_11/page/n2/mode/1up |access-date=August 7, 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=March 16, 1982}} In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year, the News seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor James Willse, held the News together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993.

The News at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The newspaper still shares offices at City Hall, and within One Police Plaza with other news agencies.

In January 2012, former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News.{{cite web|last1=Pilkington|first1=Ed|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/04/colin-myler-new-york-daily-news|title=Former NoW editor Colin Myler takes the helm at New York Daily News|website=The Guardian|date=January 4, 2012|access-date=January 4, 2012}} Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015.Pompeo, Joe, [http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/09/8576566/colin-myler-leaving-daily-news-jim-rich-be-new-eic "Colin Myler leaving the Daily News; Jim Rich to be new EIC"], Politico New York, September 11, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2015. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151215150357/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/09/8576566/colin-myler-leaving-daily-news-jim-rich-be-new-eic |date=December 15, 2015 }}

{{As of|May 2016}}, it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.cision.com/us/2014/06/top-10-us-daily-newspapers/|title=Top 10 US Daily Newspapers|publisher=Cision}} In 2019, it was ranked eleventh.{{cite web |last1=Watson |first1=Amy |title=Leading newspapers in the U.S. 2017–2019, by circulation |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/184682/us-daily-newspapers-by-circulation/ |website=statista.com |access-date=18 September 2020}}

On September 4, 2017, Tronc (now Tribune Publishing), the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired the Daily News.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/business/new-york-daily-news-sale-tronc.html|title=The Daily News, a Distinctive Voice in New York, Is Sold|last1=Ember|first1=Sydney|date=September 4, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 5, 2017|last2=Sorkin|first2=Andrew Ross|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Tronc had bought the Daily News for $1, assuming "operational and pension liabilities". By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays.{{cite news |last1=Kogan |first1=Rick |author-link=Rick Kogan |last2=Channick |first2=Robert |title=Tronc acquires New York Daily News |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=September 5, 2017 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-tronc-new-york-daily-news-0905-biz-20170904-story.html |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617085417/http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-tronc-new-york-daily-news-0905-biz-20170904-story.html |archive-date=June 17, 2018 |url-status=live}} In July 2018, Tronc fired half of the paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tronc-owned The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/631501750/tronc-slashes-new-york-daily-news-staff-by-half |title=Tronc Slashes 'New York Daily News' Staff By Half |date=July 23, 2018 |first=David |last=Folkenflik|newspaper=NPR.org }} The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images and memes that were later deleted were posted on its Twitter feed.{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1021436288002555911 |date=July 23, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723172350/https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1021436288002555911 |title=New York Daily News |publisher=Twitter |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/24/new-york-daily-news-cuts-half-of-its-newsroom-staff |title=New York Daily News cuts half of its newsroom staff |newspaper=The Guardian |agency=Associated Press |date=July 24, 2018}}

Tribune Publishing was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021. Upon the close of the deal, the Daily News was transferred to a separate company owned by Alden, Daily News Enterprises. In September 2021, editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien, who also serves as the editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant.

The paper was also printed in a Sunday edition called Sunday News.

The New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said the Daily News focuses heavily on "deep sourcing and doorstep reporting", providing city-centered "crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues [...] rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives". According to Feuer, the paper is known for "speaking to and for the city's working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct".{{cite news| first=Alan|last= Feuer| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/nyregion/the-daily-news-layoffs-and-digital-shift-may-signal-the-tabloid-eras-end.html |title=The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era's End|work=The New York Times|date=September 27, 2015|quote=Unlike The New York Post, which has veered from left to right, the politics of The Daily News are flexibly centrist..}}

The New York Times has described the Daily News{{'}}s editorial stance as "flexibly centrist" with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy".{{cite news| first=Jonathan |last=Mahler|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/business/media/drop-dead-not-the-newly-relevant-daily-news.html |title=Drop Dead? Not the Newly Relevant Daily News|work=The New York Times|date=January 29, 2016}} In contrast to its sister publication, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily News was pro-Roosevelt, endorsing him in 1932, 1936, and 1940. It broke from the president, however, in 1941 over foreign policy.{{cite book | last=Beito | first=David T. | title=The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance | edition=First | pages=208–209| location=Oakland | publisher=Independent Institute | year=2023 | isbn=978-1598133561}} From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Daily News espoused conservative populism.{{Cite journal|last=Pressman|first=Matthew|date=2021|title=The New York Daily News and the History of Conservative Media|journal=Modern American History|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=219–238|doi=10.1017/mah.2021.17|s2cid=241600005|issn=2515-0456|doi-access=free}} By the mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the conservative Post (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion).

The newspaper endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election,{{cite news|url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/ny-daily-news-endorses-obama-had-backed-bush-in-2004-and-so-does-detroit-free-press/|title=NY 'Daily News' Endorses Obama — Had Backed Bush in 2004 —and So Does 'Detroit Free Press' |work=Editor & Publisher|date=October 18, 2008|access-date=September 15, 2016|archive-date=December 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214064611/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/ny-daily-news-endorses-obama-had-backed-bush-in-2004-and-so-does-detroit-free-press/|url-status=dead}} Democrat Barack Obama in 2008,{{cite news|url= http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/daily-news-endorses-obama-president-promise-renew-america-home-article-1.300473 |title=Daily News endorses Obama for President: He has the promise to renew America at home and abroad|work=Daily News|date=October 19, 2008}} Republican Mitt Romney in 2012,{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choice-america-future-mitt-romney-article-1.1196299 | title = Our choice for America's future: The Daily News endorses Mitt Romney for president|work=Daily News (New York) |access-date=July 31, 2016| date = November 4, 2012}} Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016,{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/daily-news-editorial-board-hillary-clinton-president-article-1.2730476 | title = Daily News Editorial Board says Vote Hillary Clinton: She's the best choice for President, while Donald Trump represents a clear and present danger to the republic | date=July 28, 2016|work=Daily News}} and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.{{Cite web|last=Daily News Editorial Board|date=November 1, 2020|title=Why Joe: Vote proudly for Joe Biden when you vote against Donald Trump|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-why-joe-biden-20201101-6wjdwpeamrg6pkezdbuyfoqcpq-story.html|website=New York Daily News}}

File:New York Daily News building 1930.jpg, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.]]

From its founding, it was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north of City Hall, and close to Park Row, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place, which was in the same neighborhood. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper.{{cite web|title=Daily News Building|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1049.pdf|date=July 28, 1981|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2020-05-24}}

From 1929 to 1995, the Daily News was based in 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street (also known as 5 Manhattan West) in 1995, 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 films). The former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building.

The subsequent headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station. The building is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West.

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In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.{{cite web|last=Deichler|first=Andrew|title=Daily News Relocating HQ to 4 New York Plaza|url=http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Daily-News-Relocating-HQ-to-4-New-York-Plaza/121598|access-date=June 12, 2011|archive-date=June 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623185633/http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Daily-News-Relocating-HQ-to-4-New-York-Plaza/121598|url-status=dead}} Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy. In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant.{{cite news|last=Myler|first=Colin|title=How the Daily News bested Superstorm Sandy: The Daily Planet would be proud|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/daily-planet-proud-article-1.1197068 |access-date=July 25, 2013|newspaper=Daily News|date=November 5, 2012}} In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center—just four blocks north of its rival New York Post. The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, the Daily News closed its Manhattan headquarters.{{cite web|last=García-Hodges|first=Ahiza|title=Tribune Publishing closes Daily News newsroom in Manhattan|website=NBC News|date=August 12, 2020 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/tribune-publishing-closes-daily-news-newsroom-manhattan-n1236558}}

In 1993, the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.{{cite news|last=Pinder|first=Jeanne B.|title= Daily News to Shift Printing to Jersey City|newspaper=The New York Times|date = June 4, 1993|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/04/nyregion/daily-news-to-shift-printing-to-jersey-city.html|access-date=December 16, 2011}}{{cite news|title=Fire damages Daily News printing plant in Jersey City|newspaper=The Jersey Journal|date = January 5, 2008|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/fire_damages_daily_news_printi.html|access-date =December 16, 2011}}

In 2009, the paper spent $150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/business/media/17adco.html|work=The New York Times|first=Richard| last=Pérez-Peña|title=With New Presses, Daily News Is Betting on World of Print|date=November 17, 2009}}{{cite web|first=Erin|last=Carlson|url=http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-11-17/entertainment/30037344_1_printing-plant-full-color-paper|title=The Daily News Spends $150 Million On New Printing Presses|work=Business Insider|date=November 17, 2009|access-date=November 8, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221073331/http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-11-17/entertainment/30037344_1_printing-plant-full-color-paper|archive-date=February 21, 2013}}

In 2011, the company spent $100 million to buy three new presses, using a $41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey.{{cite news|last=O'Dea|first=Coleen|title=Can Urban Transit Hubs Help Revitalize New Jersey's Cities?|work=Jersey City Independent|date=December 12, 2011|url=http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/12/12/can-urban-transit-hubs-help-revitalize-new-jerseys-cities/|access-date=December 16, 2011|quote=... state expects to award the first $41.7 million in credits soon to the Daily News, which is spending $100 million on three new presses at its site in Jersey City.|archive-date=June 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602062546/http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/12/12/can-urban-transit-hubs-help-revitalize-new-jerseys-cities/|url-status=dead}}

In 2022, the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group.{{cite web | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-daily-news-20220111-oq2mc5ip6velbakgqhbschwrxu-story.html | title=New York Daily News announces plan to outsource printing of newspaper | website=New York Daily News | date=January 11, 2022 }}

The Daily News has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/daily-news-propublica-win-pulitzer-prize-article-1.3039775 |title=Daily News, ProPublica win Pulitzer Prize |newspaper=New York Daily News |first=Denis |last=Slattery |date=April 10, 2017 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517133820/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/daily-news-propublica-win-pulitzer-prize-article-1.3039775 |archive-date=May 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}

In 1998, Daily News columnist Mike McAlary won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mike-mcalary-1997-pulitzer-prize-winning-abner-louima-columns-article-1.238109 |title=Mike McAlary's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning Abner Louima columns |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=August 13, 2007 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |first=Mike |last=McAlary |author-link=Mike McAlary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429043813/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mike-mcalary-1997-pulitzer-prize-winning-abner-louima-columns-article-1.238109 |archive-date=April 29, 2018 |url-status=live}}

In 2007, the News' editorial board, which comprised Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub, and Heidi Evans,{{Cite web|last=|title=Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/arthur-browne-beverly-weintraub-and-heidi-evans|access-date=2022-02-15 |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |language=en}} won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the September 11 attacks had become ill from toxins in the air.{{cite news |first=David |last=Saltonstall |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/daily-news-editorial-board-wins-pulitzer-article-1.213200 |title=Daily News editorial board wins Pulitzer |newspaper=Daily News |date=April 16, 2007 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163555/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/daily-news-editorial-board-wins-pulitzer-article-1.213200 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |url-status=live }} The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper "for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation."

In 2017, the Daily News was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/204 |title=Public Service |publisher=Pulitzer.org}}

In 1928, a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair.{{cite news |url=http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=472 |title=HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things |publisher=SI.edu |date=March 16, 2012|access-date=January 4, 2017}} The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!".

On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of the October 30, 1975 Daily News read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html "Infamous 'Drop Dead' Was Never Said by Ford"], The New York Times, December 28, 2006. Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election.{{cite news |last1=Peiser |first1=Jaclyn |title=Daily News Newsroom Cut in Half by Tronc as Top Editor Is Ousted |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/media/tronc-daily-news-layoffs.html |access-date=July 31, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 23, 2018}}

On November 16, 1995, the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline "Crybaby" following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/newt-gingrich-crybaby-famous-daily-news-cover-explained-blog-entry-1.1637386 |title=Newt Gingrich, crybaby: The famous Daily News cover explained}}

On May 12, 2003, the Daily News front page read "JFK Had a Monica",{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/daily-news-front-page-headline-may-12-jfk-had-a-monica-news-photo/97294417 |title=JFK Had a Monica |date=March 2, 2010 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kennedys-monica/ |title=Kennedy's 'Monica'? |publisher=CBS News |date=May 14, 2003 }} reporting historian Robert Dallek's book on JFK's affair with a White House intern—long before the infamous Clinton-Lewinsky scandal just five years prior to the publication, and in turn, compelled the former intern, Mimi Alford, to come forward, and then Daily News ran another front page title on May 16, 2003, read "Mimi Breaks Her Silence",{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2003/05/16/mimi-breaks-her-silence-says-sex-with-jfk-began-in-june-62/ |title=MIMI BREAKS HER SILENCE |website=New York Daily News |date=May 16, 2003 }} and then another article the next day titled "JFK & MIMI: Why It Matters."{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2003/05/17/jfk-mimi-why-it-matters/ |title=JFK & MIMI: Why It Matters? |website=New York Daily News |date=May 17, 2003 }}

In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it, and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city's media.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/business/media/drop-dead-not-the-newly-relevant-daily-news.html |title=Drop Dead? Not the Newly Relevant Daily News |website=The New York Times|date=January 29, 2016 |last1=Mahler |first1=Jonathan}}

Following the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page displayed "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" along with tweets from Republican politicians offering thoughts and prayers.Chris Cillizza, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/02/the-new-york-daily-newss-very-provocative-front-page-on-the-san-bernardino-shooting/ "The New York Daily News{{'}}s very provocative front page on the San Bernardino shooting"], The Washington Post (December 2, 2015). The paper advocated for tighter gun laws, condemning what it described as "empty platitudes and angry rhetoric" rather than action "in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country."Jessica Durando, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/03/ny-daily-news-provokes-cover-calif-shooting-god-isnt-fixing/76703060/ Daily News{{'}} provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this{{'"}}], USA Today (December 3, 2015). The provocative headline received both praise and criticism.Ginger Adams Otis, [https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/daily-news-cover-shooting-prompts-strong-responses-article-1.2454178 "Daily News cover calling out pols' empty rhetoric after San Bernardino shooting prompts strong responses"], New York Daily News (December 3, 2015).

In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas disparaged "New York values" in a Republican primary debate, the News responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger.David Wright, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/15/politics/new-york-daily-news-cruz-cover/ "New York Daily News to Cruz: 'Drop Dead, Ted{{'"}}], CNN (January 16, 2016).

The Daily News supported the Iraq War."[https://www.thenation.com/article/surprise-ten-years-ago-many-top-newspapers-did-oppose-us-war-against-iraq/ Surprise! Ten Years Ago Many Top Newspapers Did Oppose the US War Against Iraq] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205190335/https://www.thenation.com/article/surprise-ten-years-ago-many-top-newspapers-did-oppose-us-war-against-iraq/ |date=February 5, 2017 }}". The Nation. March 13, 2013. On March 14, 2003, six days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Daily News reported "President Bush is targeting an aggressive, dangerous, psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction. ... With Saddam in power, there can be no peace. One argument you hear raised against war is fear of retaliation: America mustn't upset the terrorists. After 9/11, does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave."{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/peaceniks-couldn-wrong-article-1.668844 |title=Peaceniks couldn't be more wrong |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=March 14, 2003 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718144603/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/peaceniks-couldn-wrong-article-1.668844 |archive-date=July 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}

On December 20, 2016, Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan, saying "justice has been served."{{cite news |first=Gersh |last=Kuntzman |title=Assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was not terrorism, but retribution for Vladimir Putin's war crimes |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/don-cry-russia-slain-envoy-putin-lackey-article-1.2917281 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=December 20, 2016 |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718174339/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/don-cry-russia-slain-envoy-putin-lackey-article-1.2917281 |archive-date=July 18, 2018 |url-status=live}} Russia has demanded an official apology from Daily News.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Since 2018, the Daily News has prevented internet users in the European Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missing data protection compliance.{{cite news |last1=Hern |first1=Alex |last2=Belam |first2=Martin |title=LA Times among US-based news sites blocking EU users due to GDPR |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/25/gdpr-us-based-news-websites-eu-internet-users-la-times |access-date=24 September 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=25 May 2018 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Duraj |first1=Maciej |title=How the Internet Is Being Restricted & Handicapped Based on Geographic Data |url=https://maciejduraj-75226.medium.com/how-the-internet-is-being-restricted-handicapped-based-on-geographic-data-232eea088f74 |access-date=24 September 2021 |work=Medium |date=4 June 2020 |language=en}}{{cite web |author1=PennRobotics |title=It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27854663 |website=Hacker News |access-date=24 September 2021 |date=16 July 2021}}

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