New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City. Founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson, as the Illustrated Daily News. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format, it reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. This 20th century publication New York Daily News is not connected to an earlier 19th century New York Daily News (1855-1906), that flourished under Benjamin Wood, and ceased publication in December 1906, but was an entirely new publication.