The News also maintains local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, at City Hall, within One Police Plaza, and at the various state and federal courthouses in the city.
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. 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. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. No editions of the News were printed during this time. įrom 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. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher. The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980, and Augthis competed with the New York Post, which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978. 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 television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. 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. Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark and Ed Murawinski.
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". 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. : 8, 31–32 The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another has been "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York". 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. A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. The Daily News carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925, over a million. Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24, 1919, as Illustrated Daily News. On his return, Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror, London's tabloid newspaper. 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. as an imitation of the successful British newspaper Daily Mirror. The two were co-publishers of the Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill. The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. Harding on cover of The Daily News (Februfront page)
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