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Daily News (New York) facts for kids

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The Daily News of New York City is a daily tabloid newspaper. As of a 2009 study by BurrellesLuce, a media relations measurement service, it is the fifth most-widely distributed daily newspaper in the United States, publishing and selling. The original New York Daily News was started by Benjamin Wood, but the business fell after his death. Joseph Medill Patterson went onto create a newspaper of the same name in 1919, it was America's first official tabloid journal. The paper has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes.

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  • Finest picture front page

    Wife of President-elect Warren G. Harding on cover of The Daily News (February 5, 1921 front page)

  • New York Daily News building 1930

    Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.

  • New York Daily News building and garage - Bromley Manhattan Plate 068 publ. 1955–56 (cropped)

    Map of New York Daily News building and garage about 1955

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