New York Daily News: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The New York Daily News is a major United States newspaper printed in tabloid form that first rolled off the printing presses in 1919. It is run by Mortimer Zuckerman and used to call itself "New York's Picture Newspaper". (It is now known as "New York's Hometown Newspaper".) The paper still includes plenty of photographs, as well as news, gossip about people, classified ads, comics, a sports section, and an opinion section. (Bill Gallo is a prominent sports cartoonist of the New York Daily News.)

Sometime in the early 1990s, the Daily News almost went out of business. However, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. When Maxwell died, the News may have seceded from Maxwell's publishing empire.

Famous headlines from the Daily News include:

• WHO'S A BUM! (describing the Brooklyn Dodgers' championship of 1955)
• FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD (bankruptcy of New York City government and the refusal of President Gerald Ford to give financial assistance to the city prompted this headline in the early to mid 1970s)
• CRYBABY (referring to then - Congressman Newt Gingrich in the mid 1990s, for his allegedly shutting down the US government during budget talks)