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History The News carried the well-known slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs, and a camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. (The Newss current slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper" while another slogan 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. (Bill Gallo is a prominent sports cartoonist for the paper.) The newspaper, which has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes, was founded by Joseph Medill Patterson, a member of the family that published the Chicago Tribune, and from its founding until 1991 was owned by the Tribune. The News later established WPIX (Channel 11 in New York City) and WPIX-FM. At one point in the early 1990s, the Daily News almost went out of business. However, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to The News to help it stay in business. When Maxwell died shortly thereafter, The News seceded from his publishing empire, which eventually splintered under allegations about whether he had the financial backing to sustain it. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993. Headquarters From the 1930s to 1990s, The News was based in a landmark skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The paper moved to 33rd Street in the mid-1990s, 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 movies). WPIX-TV remains in the building, although it now partners with Newsday as both are owned by Tribune. Editorial opinion The Daily News is generally seen as politically midway between the two other major New York City dailies, the more liberal New York Times, and the more conservative New York Post, though tending more in the direction of liberalism. Typically, its editorial page espouses a liberal position on social issues like abortion, while advocating more conservative positions on crime and foreign policy, including pro-Israel and anti-Castro editorials and columns. This was not always the case, as the Daily News, during its partnership with the Chicago Tribune, usually shared the Tribunes staunch conservative viewpoint, while the Post was considered a liberal newspaper. The two papers had reversed their ideologies by the late 1970s, largely due to changing city demographics and the purchase of the Post by Rupert Murdoch. Style and reputation Though its competition with the Post has led the Daily News to engage in some of the more sensationalist tactics of its competitor, it is still respected in the industry for the quality of its contributors (which past and present have included Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, William Reel, David Hinckley, Mike Lupica, Juan Gonzalez, John Melia, Jami Bernard and Chris Allbritton), its solid coverage of the city, and its photos. Its Voice of the People letters section (which often allows letter writers, called Voicers, to respond to other letter writers) is seen as a good way to read the pulse of the city. Notable front pages The News is known for its often colorful and blunt front page headlines, several of which have achieved iconic status. Famous headlines from the Daily News include: Daily Planet The Daily News served as the model for the Daily Planet in the Superman movies, beginning with in 1978. The paper's front page is a near-perfect match for the real-life Daily News, and the News Building stood in for the Daily Planet Building, with the large globe in the real-life lobby serving as a handy emblem for the Planet. When Superman makes his public debut, the Planet carries the headline, "CAPED WONDER STUNS CITY," while Planet editor Perry White compares it to the other papers in Metropolis, which also seem to mirror the New York Papers: See also | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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