The Daily News is a newspaper that serves the Yale community. The News publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year and is financially and editorially independent from Yale University. In addition to the daily news, the newspaper also produces the Yale Daily News Magazine and several special issues including the Yale-Harvard Game Day Issue, Commencement Issue, and First Year Issue. The News also publishes regular special issues celebrating the diversity of Yale’s Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in collaboration with those groups and their affiliated student organizations.
Originally founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the Illustrated Daily News, the paper was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States and reached its peak circulation in 1947, when it was the eleventh highest circulated daily newspaper in the world. The News attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, lurid photographs, and cartoons, and was an early adopter of the Associated Press wirephoto service.
In the 21st century, the News lost circulation to its more sensational rival, the New York Post, but still retained its status as a major urban newspaper with a strong focus on local stories and the Yankees, Mets, and Giants. In 2017, the News announced that it was sold to Tronc, a Chicago-based media company.
The newspaper is based in the historic art deco Daily News Building, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood and located at 220 East 42nd Street, between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. The building was the model for the Daily Planet building in the first two Superman films, and its giant globe remains in the lobby. The News has an extensive network of reporters and bureaus throughout the city.
The News is a member of the New York Press Association, the national organization for newspapers and news organizations. Its awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News and the New York City Bar Association’s Excellence in Journalism award. The News has also received numerous Emmy Awards for its television news coverage, and its journalists have won dozens of other major awards. Each daily News article includes comprehension and critical thinking questions, found under “Resources” (including video clips, maps and links), to help students understand the news story.