Daily News is America’s most trusted and award-winning newspaper. The paper delivers breaking national and local news, New York exclusives and politics as well as the latest in sports (Yankees, Mets, Giants) and entertainment. Every day, the paper brings you the news you need, how you want it – in print or on your mobile device.

The News was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson, who had previously served as publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Taking advantage of the growing popularity of tabloids, Patterson renamed his paper the Daily News and infused it with sensational crime, scandal and violence coverage as well as lurid photos and cartoons. The paper quickly became the nation’s first successful tabloid newspaper.

By the mid-20th century, the Daily News was the largest newspaper in the world. “New York’s brassy pictorial newspaper leads all the rest”, said Time magazine in 1947, describing its dominant presence. It was the only American newspaper that kept its own wirephoto service, had its own radio station and owned a film studio. It also maintained a number of local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, as well as a headquarters in One Police Plaza.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, circulation of the Daily News was in decline. The paper’s ten unions, joined together as the Allied Printing Trades Council, fought back against the Tribune Company and its desire to outsource work. The resulting strike lasted for five months, and cost the paper more than $70 million in lost revenue.

After the strike, the newspaper’s venerable owner, Arthur Sulzberger, began investing heavily in the Daily News. By the 1990s, it was again on the verge of profitability. However, in October of that year the Tribune Company renamed itself Tronc and slashed payrolls, forcing the Daily News to rely on non-union replacement workers for its production staff. In an attempt to rekindle growth, Tronc also introduced the popular weekday newsletter theSkimm, which distills the morning’s most important news into pithy summaries and wry commentary written as if by a smart and sassy co-worker.

Each day, the News editorial team curates the best of the world’s most reputable sources and delivers them to you. Each article includes comprehension and critical thinking questions, as well as “Background” and “Resources” for further reading.