New York Daily News history

The New York Daily News found abundant subject matter in the United States of the 1920s.

May 1, 1921 The paper begins printing Sunday News edition.

April 1926 News reaches circulation of more than 1 million.

January 1927 Brooklyn printing plant opens.

6, 1941 and Edwin S. Webster to J. M. Patterson, Oct.

A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. 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.

The Information Bureau also offered tours of the News plant and provided reprints of some of the paper's popular features at cost (for example, recipe booklets and dress patterns). On a sample week in May 1946, the Bureau fielded 5,943 phone calls and had 3,413 in-person visitors.

66 Speech transcript titled “Print the News and Raise Hell,” undated (circa 1947), folder 65, Flynn Papers.

1948 News establishes TV station WPIX-Ch.

119 Robert D. McFadden, “Vincent Impellitteri Is Dead; Mayor of New York in 1950's,” New York Times, Jan.

In 1955, as William F. Buckley Jr. made the case for his new magazine National Review, he frequently cited one primary rationale for the venture: there was no good outlet in the press for conservative ideas.Footnote 1 Many historians have agreed.

10, 1959, 2; Theo Wilson, “Drive Grows to Put Rainone 2d in Command of Welfare,” New York Daily News, July 29, 1959, 25; “Sharkey Asks Mayor to Hire Rainone,” New York Daily News, Aug.

94 For instance, see the following Daily News editorials: “More Trouble for Africa,” May 31, 1961, 47; “And Now, About Cuba,” Dec.

8, 1962 Citywide newspaper strike lasts nearly five months, leading to eventual demise of several New York papers.

An October 1965 article in the paper's news pages sounds as though it were copied verbatim from a Birch press release.

One woman in 1967 wrote to the paper about a rodent infestation in her “middle-income development” in Bayside, Queens.

The series on the garbage crisis ran from March 18–22, 1969.

He began his career in journalism in 1970 as a reporter for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey; three years later he became the publication’s night city editor.

From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, a multi-union strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers.

21, 1980, may have started out as a reality star, but in the years since she has made a name for herself in the beauty and fashion worlds with her multi-billion-dollar companies.

1 (1981): 9–13CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Burgoon, Judee K. and Burgoon, Michael, “Predictors of Newspaper Readership,” Journalism Quarterly 57, no.

In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale.

69 Frank Holeman interview by Niel M. Johnson, June 9, 1987, transcript, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/holeman (accessed Feb.

March 21, 1991 Strike ends with sale of paper to publisher Robert Maxwell.

He joined The New York Times as an op-ed columnist in 1993 and wrote about politics, urban affairs, and social trends.

September 1996 News goes digital, launching website mostnewyork.com (now nydailynews.com).

October 1997 Debby Krenek begins a nearly three-year stint as The News’ first woman editor-in-chief.

October 2009 News is printed completely in color for the first time.

In 2011 Herbert left the newspaper and became a fellow at Demos, a progressive think tank.

In January 2012, former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News.

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.

As of May 2016, it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States.

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.

July 2018 Robert York, former publisher and editor of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., named The News’ editor-in-chief.

June 26, 2019 The Daily News celebrates its 100th anniversary as New York’s “hometown newspaper."

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. Its parent, Tribune Publishing, was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021.