A daily newspaper is a publication that provides news, usually in the form of articles or short stories. It is a popular and convenient way to keep up with the latest news, whether in politics, sports, or entertainment. It is often distributed in print or electronically, depending on the country and its laws. It may also provide other types of content, such as photographs, classified advertisements, comics, and local news. A typical daily newspaper has a small number of pages and is published at least once a day.

The New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States and once had the largest circulation of any paper in the world. It was founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson and was a subsidiary of the Tribune Company of Chicago. It attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, lurid photographs, and cartoons and other entertainment features. By 1930 its circulation had risen to 1,520,000, reaching 2,000,000 in the next decade.

In 1928, a Daily News reporter strapped a camera to his leg and photographed the gruesome execution of Ruth Snyder. The photograph was the first of its kind to be widely seen. It became the basis for a famous poem by Langston Hughes and is considered to have changed the course of history. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Daily News leaned Republican, supporting isolationism during World War II and conservative populism in its later decades. In the 1990s it shifted to a moderately liberal stance, attempting to distinguish itself from its right-wing rival, The New York Post.

Today the Daily News, which is owned by Tronc, a media company, is one of the nation’s largest newspapers. It has offices in New York City and Los Angeles. It is a member of the National Press Club and the Associated Press. In addition to the daily newspaper, it publishes a weekly Sunday edition, a magazine, WPIX-TV, and numerous other products.