The Daily News is a New York City-based newspaper founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the Illustrated Daily News. It became the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. It attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime and scandal, lurid photographs, and comics and entertainment features. It was the second largest newspaper in circulation in the United States until its peak in 1947.
The paper’s staff of award-winning writers and columnists brings you New York City exclusives, intense city news coverage, politics and the latest celebrity gossip. No one covers the Yankees, Mets, Giants and Jets like the Daily News. In addition, the News is known for its extensive community outreach, including the Yale Daily News’ special issues celebrating Indigenous, Black, Latino and Asian American communities in collaboration with the university’s cultural centers and affiliated student groups.
Each Daily News article includes comprehension and critical thinking questions, as well as “Background” and “Resources” (including video clips, maps and links) to help students learn more about the topic. Additionally, the News provides a free Daily News Email, a newsletter that delivers a daily news story, questions and answers for reading and discussion, and classroom lesson plans. Sign-up for the Daily News Email here.
In 1995 the News moved out of its famous building at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, which featured a large globe and weather instruments in the lobby. The building was the model for the Daily Planet in the first two Superman films. The News moved into the nearby 450 West 33rd Street (also known as Manhattan West) and currently shares space with its former TV subsidiary WPIX-TV.
The Daily News also publishes the Yale Daily News, America’s oldest college newspaper and the world’s longest-running student paper, which has been published Monday through Friday during the academic year since 1878. The Daily News is editorially independent and financially sponsored by Yale alumni, students and parents in support of the University’s mission to foster intellectual and ethical inquiry.