NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City, often the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States. The New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. It was founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson and was a subsidiary of the Tribune Company of Chicago. After a few months the paper changed its name to the Daily News. The Daily News attracted readers with its sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, its lurid photographs, and its cartoons and other entertainment features. By 1930 its circulation had risen to 1,520,000; it reached 2,000,000 in the next decade. The New York Daily News found abundant subject matter in the United States of the 1920s. Like other popular dailies, it gave great prominence to political scandals such as the Teapot Dome oil leases and to society scandals such as the romance and abdication of King Edward VIII. The paper devoted much attention to its photography; it was an early user of the Associated Press wirephoto service in the 1930s and developed a large staff of skilled photographers. In spite of strikes, rising production costs, and an unsuccessful attempt at an afternoon edition, the Daily News has continued to have one of the highest circulation rates in the United States.