The Daily News is one of the top selling newspapers in the United States. It has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. But it has not been an easy ride over the years. In fact, the Daily News has faced a number of crises.
One of the most significant was the coronavirus that affected the newsroom and forced employees to work remotely. In order to avoid this, Tribune Publishing offered buyouts to journalists before the epidemic. Sadly, most didn’t take advantage of the opportunity. However, the newspaper has since imposed furloughs and pay cuts.
Meanwhile, technology has made it possible for citizens to become gatekeepers to the information they consume. Having lost their local paper in 2015, McKeesport residents are trying to make sense of what they’re seeing on their social media feeds.
What happens to a town when its newspaper dies is an important question to ask. It’s one that Andrew Conte explores in Death of the Daily News. His book is full of fascinating insights into what a local community goes through after a paper disappears. As a journalist and longtime observer of news, Conte has the inside track.
He has spent his career reporting on national and local news, and he knows the value of a well-crafted story. While he doesn’t necessarily believe that a single newspaper can tell all the stories in a town, he does believe that citizens need to be able to tell what they need to know about their communities.
During the 1920s, the New York Daily News was the most widely read daily tabloid in the country. It drew readers with its lurid photographs and sensational crime coverage. By 1930, the Daily News had a circulation of 1.5 million copies.
The Daily News was known for its photo-heavy cover stories and its ability to hold a city’s attention with a single headline. That’s because it was one of the first publications to utilize the Associated Press wirephoto service, and it built a large staff of photographers.
When the Daily News’s circulation peaked in 1947, it reached 2.4 million copies a day. Despite this, the circulation continued to decline. In fact, by the end of 2016, the Daily News had a circulation of just over 200,000 copies a day.
Andrew Conte’s compelling book is a must-read for anyone interested in local journalism and the state of the media in America. Not only does it offer insight into the impact of losing a local paper, but it also demonstrates how some people are building a new kind of local journalism that can thrive in a digital age.
The most important piece of advice in the book is to find out what matters to your community. There are many different ways to do this. And while the Daily News isn’t the only example, it is an excellent one to follow.
One of the best things about this book is the author’s ability to explore all the stages of grief. This is a difficult topic, but Conte does a superb job of analyzing how a small town reacts to the loss of a local newspaper.