Little Orphan Annie
Moon Mullins
Mandrake the Magician
Brenda Starr
Li'l Abner
Jiggs & Maggie
Henry
Popeye
Mutt & Jeff
Dick Tracy
-- excuse me - I need to get a tissue to wipe away the tears in my eyes...
Looks like the decline was a long time coming. Sports news is just no longer viable in print. It’s so accessible by phone and the internet. You get the news instantly why wait a day later to see it in print?
Printings in my blood. I probably learned to read flipping through The Daily News. We learned about John Zenger and men who died defending their printing presses as school kids. I had print shop at Jonas E. Salk Jr. High in Levittown with Mr. Jahelka. After Holy Trinity HS and Catholic colleges (no degree) I returned to print and began a 30 plus year career as a lithographer. Yes, that is what I entered on my tax returns. Working in Manhattan’s former historic Hudson Square Printing District for 12 years at Litho Art, Inc. in the Georgian Press Building at 175 Varick Street as the estimator were some of my fondest memories. NY printers are the smartest, savviest quick witted news junkies in America. The adrenalin buzz and press room carcinogen smells drove the day. Now it’s all gone and even though I read the NYT, Post and Daily News online it still hurts to see the trade take another hit like this.
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When your leader gets a $15-million payout/compensation package after being accused of sexual harassment and 'retiring', then naturally, layoffs must come!
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I grew up with the Daily News and Sunday News. New York's Picture Newspaper had just that (center fold) plus great sports (Dick Young), great local news and condensed national/world news. My father called it "the little news" (based on its size not lack of content) when he sent me out to buy it. Unfortunately, I stopped reading the paper when it became a left-wing sleaze rag, editorializing in its news columns and headlines more than usual. End of a newspaper that I really loved. The old Daily News "spoke" to you as if part of the family. I miss those days.
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The great newspaper of Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Dick Young and untold number of others has been reduced to regurgitating generic wire services. The new owners had the audacity to make the online version a paid subscription. Who would pay for the NYDN's content now, especially when you can get the same wire feeds on hundreds of free news sites? For many decades, the NYDN was the heartbeat of the city. Now the heart has died out. RIP in Daily News. Thanks for what you once were.
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While not a Daily News reader, this certainly comes as another indication of just how many papers have disappeared from the stands as a result of the digital age -- and a fact made even more astounding when one thinks of how many printed daily papers were once in circulation in this city's past.
Like it or not, it will be sad to see The Daily News go.
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Just another one of the inevitable outcomes of the digital age. Sooner, rather than later, print news will be gone, and replaced completely by the tons of garbage “news” on the internet today. It has become so sad to see every single news source become nothing but political fodder. There are hardly any true media sources or journalists left anymore that print, either digitally or the old fashioned way, without a political bias. It’s all liberal or conservative in one way or another. I used to love reading the newspaper every morning. It was just part of the wonderful start to my day to sit down with my coffee, smoke a cigarette (God Forbid), and read the paper before heading off to work, but even I contributed to the soon-to-be-death of print. A once glorious institution, the printed newspaper, will be just a thing to reminisce about in the soon to come future.
I offer my condolences and best wishes to all those who lost their jobs at the daily news. I wish them well and hope they can find some sort of satisfying work again.
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I feel awful for the folks who lost their job.
This is happening because the paper couldn't create value people were willing to pay for enough to cover their costs. They aren't operating at a minor loss, nor are they running a non-profit. They are bleeding cash.
They pursued a business model of "...published front pages that captured the staccato energy of social media."
But social media energy is free for consumers and readily available; the newspaper needed something people were willing to invest heavily in either through online attention (and therefore advertisers) and/or paid subscriptions.
They failed to do either over multiple years.
This isn't the first newspaper that followed a similar story, nor will it be the last as publications seek to become specialized and niche to carve out their own domain - only to find they can't cover their costs doing so.
This is awful for the laid off staff - and the world more broadly. We need fewer case studies of publications run in the red, and more case studies of them creating value for the world that the world compensates them for adequately.
A couple of observations:
In the typical newspaper layoff story, there is usually a comment from the union. I may have missed that but I saw no response or quote. One could take that as a sign of the ongoing decrease in power of both unions and newspapers. When the typographers union shut down the New York dailies in the early 60's the head of the local was on the cover of Time Magazine.
2) I used to do business with a driver for the Daily News who was active in the union. He said when the drivers who made upwards of $90k 20 years ago when that was real money, wanted overtime someone wound walk over to the press and touch the web as it ran through the press which would then wrap around the cylinder at full speed and require a press stop and a couple hours of maintenance, forcing the drivers to wait.
While Tronc should be ashamed to charge anything for the Daily News that they have now ruined beyond repair and rightfully blamed, during the alleged heyday of newspapers, there was plenty of waste to help begin the downturn
3) We should give out of towner Mort Zuckerman some credit for basically funding this "New York institution" to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for over 20 years.
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I know that this might not be the most admirable reason to have fond memories of a newspaper but...
I am 55. When I was a boy, I'd often spend a week or two during the summer at my grandparents' home in South Ozone Park near the intersection of Sutter Avenue and 121st Street not far from Aqueduct Racetrack.
In the mornings, I'd walk with my grandfather to buy the Daily News from the corner store and, when we got home, I'd flip over to Sports section to see whatever comic the Bill Gallo drew, usually with Basement Bertha discussing the Yanks or Mets although I will never forget his Walking Tall comic when Julius Erving and the New York Nets won the 1973-74 ABA Championship.
More importantly, I'd use the paper to "play the ponies" as my grandmother said and taught me. So, I'd read and ponder all the data and predictions on the upcoming races from Belmont or Saratoga and place my fictional wagers. The next morning, I'd be thrilled to check to see how I did and figure out how much fictional money I earned. (I usually came out ahead!) Believe it or not, that sort of skill - data collection and analysis - prepared me in life as I became an engineer.
PS: Who could forget the center of the paper always having a big photo spread... like when Sly Stone got married in front of 21000 fans at Madison Square Garden on June 5, 1974? Memories like that only came from The Daily News.
Eternal thanks for my long-gone grandparents and The Daily News for helping me make who I am.
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This demolition of the news industry in America bodes very badly for the future. Many causes: social media platforms, internet, younger generations being disengaged by growing up in video game environments and uncaring of world events, not seeing how they connect to it. More unfortunately, the golden age of American journalism came as the result of WWII and the reporters who worked that conflict coming back and building a great news industry. We may have to suffer some terrible tragedy -- whether caused by a maniacal, reality-show president, or the overall dumbing-down caused by reality television -- in order for people to wake up and realize that news is vital to a democracy and supporting a vital news industry is one of the key pillars of the system that we rely on. It may get a lot darker before it gets lighter.
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No offense to the Daily News but this could have been the LA Times and then they would have had no newspaper but the locals. Thank goodness Tronc sold it to Mr. Soon-Shiong, though time will tell how that will work out. The Boston Herald "shed" a large number of staff recently and still keeps hemorrhaging. It is like milk and the cow. We pay for the NYT, the Globe, the hometown paper, three magazines, NPR, service, cable, and I still get free news off of Twitter. People don't seem to understand that information (gathering and providing) costs money since they get a certain level of information for free.
All this going on at the same time Trump attacks the press as the enemy of the people.
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Wow, another part of our youth gone. Back in the day the News was the more conservative of the papers, more so then the Post or the Herald Tribune. Dick Young (who most of we Dodger fans disliked) would have columns "two guys talking sports" where he would have these common sense regular guys express conservative views. But a real positive would be Bill Gallo's "hero and goat" cartoon after every world series game. The news portion was basic New York reporting, no nonsense city views of happenings.
Too bad, but its time had past. It's digital version has so many drop-down ads that it is impossible to read. RIP Daily News.
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No mention that perhaps the liberal, anti-Trump shift by the Daily News turned off working class readers who were the traditional audience of that newspaper. Like it or not, that group voted for Trump. They apparently rejected the new Daily News left wing slant. Other groups who hate Trump failed to buy the News in numbers large enough to replace the turned off former readers.
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I’m not against change. I am against some change. Facebook, Google, and other “media” have created an environment destructive to newspapers and “the Fourth Branch of Government”—what used to be known as the free press. If the free press is deprived of the resources necessary to conduct its chief function, monitoring government and business, it is no longer the free press.
How does it feel, Facebook, Google, etc., that you’re destroying one of the bulwarks of freedom in this country? Do you simply call it “creative destruction,” like your pseudo-capitalist buddies do? Sure, somebody needs to come in and clean up out-moded messes. But where’s the creative part? If you’re going to be providing the infrastructure for a free press, where’s the equivalent “news division,” at least. How are social media, all entertainment, all self-indulgent, going to take up the slack? As we amuse ourselves to death, who’s going to watch the henhouse? Personally, I think any such “infrastructure” should have to have a broadcast license—one that can be revoked.
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The evisceration of the Daily News staff marks a very sad day in the history of journalism. I am reminded of the song, “Video killed the radio star,” only now the title should read “ The internet killed a media star.”
All who value the truth and who rely on journalists to uncover the facts and express varied opinions should run, not walk, to take out subscriptions and support great papers like the New York Times.
I don’t live in NYC, but the loss of a journalistic voice in these times is another threat to our democracy. Shame on Tronc.
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I never worked for the News, but I did work for UPI when the NY bureau was housed in their offices. This is truly the end of an era. I don't know how they can recover and carry on.
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My first job, 51 years ago, was "putting the Sunday Daily News together". I remember when they had at least 4 editions including the "Bulldog Edition" that came out on Saturday night. Times change.
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Dad was born and raised in NYC, and though he moved the family upstate to Central New York when I was little, he still bought the Daily News every day, so I literally grew up with it. Though I now subscribe to The Times, I still mourn what is happening to the DN. I am especially angry at Facebook and Google for siphoning off the ad revenues that were the lifeblood of news media, all to provide something that is no way of equivalent value with little in the way of integrity or civic responsibility (e.g., not providing moderators in places where their platforms can be used to incite deadly violence). I read the computer version of the NYT on my phone, and I notice the ads now span the width of the page in the middle of the articles. I hope the NYT makes advertisers pay a very good price for the chance to disrupt my attention in that way from its quality journalism. I wouldn't see those ads otherwise. I know those ads are paying for the excellent news staff, but the various serious news media online, including DN, should not be shy about charging advertisers for access to their readers!
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Gone are the days of print ads and the help wanted sections, the financial blood line of the papers.
What is lost on many is the fact that the news articles are the product of the brick and mortar reports.
With the decline in newsroom staff comes the decline in the quality of reporting.
I still remember reading the Night Owl Edition and waiting my turn for the comics section on a Sunday morning.
RIP to the paper of my youth.
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I recall as a child and teenager, at my mother’s behest, going down to the local “candy store” every early evening, somewhere near 8 pm, and standing along with quite a few older Irish-American working men, to wait for the delivery of the “bulldog” edition of The Daily News. It was another “world”, another place, another time, not really the “good old times” but it was the New York City of my youth. Never to be seen or felt again!
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As an Aussie, I am sorry it is not the Murdoch owned tabloid. We could all do with a less of that mob.
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Sad, yet inevitable.
For me, over the past few years I would only buy The News on Saturday and Sunday. I've definitely seen a decline in it's quality. The News' reporting has often been scanty, with an over emphasis on sports. Most of it was merely a re-hash of what you saw on TV or heard on the radio - so why bother buying The News?
The News, and to some degree the NY Post, are still running on the nostalgic concept of newspaper as seen in movies from the 1930's to the 1950's, think "My Girl Friday", and the tabloid wars of the 1980's, think Robert Chambers. That's anachronistic in our social media age.
Any print publication that by now hasn't developed a niche with a solid internet base - such as the NYT and the WSJ - is pretty much the walking dead.
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There simply is no better tabloid newspaper in the United States. And they simply cannot maintain that standing with half their newsroom. It's unlikely that a fat cat would put down big bucks to save tabloid journalism. This is about more than the News. Tabloid journalism everywhere is terribly endangered. It's an art form that has probably seen its day. The best headline writers and the most colorful reporters are probably destined to work for advertising firms. A wonderful piece of classic Americana is in great jeopardy.
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This event is sad for any reader of print news. Maybe a quick read online on the run and never on Twitter. to sit with the paper in my hands will always be my first choice. How typical for a large corporate owner to not care, and hedge funds do not care about anything but the bottom line. And they neither know nor care about anything else. It's one of the parts I hate about capitalist society. It's like print news is an old friend. I feel truly sorry for journalists as it is a calling and it's not for everyone. If Twitter is to be my news source I would rather live in ignorance. Tweeting is just not it for me. The term alone is more a joke than anything else to me.
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The best newspapers have always been the ones that were angry about what they saw going on around them and placed a premium on writing about it well. The News was one of them. There are not many left.
The internet will never be a good substitute for holding a freshly printed newspaper in your hand and understanding that you are a part of a local community where things are going on that
deserve attention and need improving.
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@A. Stanton
yeah, no
Tronc is like Sears, just people bleeding a troubled industry for all the available cash. They aren't trying to run a Newspaper any more than Sears is trying to run a retail store. Tronc will bleed it dry and be on their way.
LA was lucky that the community rose up to force a sale of the LA Times. Maybe that is what is needed for the NY Daily News.
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When I was a kid I used to think of The News as a Catholic-leaning cops' paper whereas The Post leaned more Jewish.
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This isn't about print vs digital. It's about reporting vs stenography.
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Very sorry to hear Tronc anywhere near any newspaper.
When they bought LATimes they trashed it, laying off or causing to quit so many excellent staff.
They'd lied during negotiations but don't bother anymore, their only commitment is to the dollar.
LATimes was brought low enough & lost enough subscribers it was sold again, to people w at least some interest in actual news content. I hope that happens to Daily News too.
Daily News headlines are the best. Hopefully still will be.
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Probably because it has gotten pretty militantly anti 45.
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I imagine that as these last intrepid souls walked out of the Daily News building the band was playing Nearer my God to Thee, for this ship is going down.
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Digital is available for nothing or very cheaply for people with access to the internet. I don't think most digital newspapers are profitable because you get to read them for free. Though some newspapers, worldwide, are stricter than others and won't let you read the local news unless you subscribe. I've often wondered by the difference in access to reading digital worldwide. Do a web search Greymouth Evening Star nz
( www.greystar.co.nz )and see how they operate! Firstly click on an article then see what it says! Their view is if you don't pay you don't see! It's a small town newspaper in NZ.
Here's an idea instead of the lamenting and grousing making up 99% of comments:
THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS AND POST MERGE INTO A NEW DAILY NEWS BLOG SIMPLY CALLED NEW YORK NEWS.
Except one is pro-45 on everything, while the other is pro-America.
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I liked the Daily News even though I no longer live in NY. But lets face it, they were on the wrong side of the election and Trump story until today so this hurt them. They really are not the working mans paper anymore but just another voice for Libs.
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They lost their readership to Fox News
One of my very best friends in New York died five years ago. She had worked for St. Vincent Hospital in community outreach. She lived through St. Vincent’s fall which saddened so many people. Lucky for her she had planned to retire anyhow at that time, but was mortified for many others at the St. Vincent closing.
She always had a Daily News around in her little apartment. It would have been very sad for her to see this loss, too.
We cannot take anything for granted anymore, certainly not the news...in any form.
Sorry for all that will be touched by this in a very untoward way.
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Not just the Daily news but Leftist media outlets in general find themselves sorely out of touch with the American people. With 99% negative coverage media coverage Trump is at a 45% approval rating. Instead of realizing the situation and just reporting the news they continue their silly attacks and go spiraling into the earth. With the 99% fawning media approval like Obama had team Trump would be at 75% approval.
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@P McGrath, Yup, if only the media would applaud the president's lies, his bigotry, his puerile rhetoric, his sexual piggishness, his uninformed views on foreign policy, trade and the environment, his cruelty to immigrant children, his determination to undermine a free press -- well, yeah, then maybe more people would approve of him.
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You just have sit in a subway car to know the truth. Virtually everybody has their heads buried in a cell phone. Now when I go to the local store and see all of those tissue-thin editions of newspapers on sale, I think, 'My God, what are they still doing here?!' Times have changed. When are we going to stop playing this funeral dirge and face up to reality?
And as an aside, newspapers are the most wasteful, inefficient way of delivering news ever devised. Imagine selling somebody 6 pounds of newsprint on a Sunday so they can read maybe four pages of it and go out for bagels. Let's bury this monster and move on.
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Since the days of the founding fathers we have expanded the right of suffrage dramatically. With so many voters, many new, many coming from societies where voting is absent or a fraud, many with a rudimentary command of English it is not in the nation's best interest to have an uninformed public. Universal schooling is government subsidized because an informed citizenry is thought to be important. News organizations should be as well. I would gladly pay more taxes to encourage an active and free press. I would rather pay taxes for investigative journalism than pay for the F-35 or another thousand nuclear warheads or another tax bailout for Wall Street billionaires or Saudi princes.
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The paper will probably shut down completely in another few years after more profits are squeezed out. Look what happened with the SF Bay Area's Digital First Media, owned by the Alden Group. They're actually still putting out a couple of bad papers, but they, too, will be gone soon. DFM cut its copy desk after winning the Pulitzer. Photo and sports are always cut first.
First, I'm really sorry to hear this news. Obviously a lot of lost talent, including the editor.
That said, one of the problems that super obvious is that they didn't do the best just of distributing content on social media. Look at thier Facebook page. With the way agorythms work, you can publish posts on social media multiple times a day. Otherwise, the algorythm will reduce your reach to almost nothing (which is what happened here).
My point is the new team needs to be social media saavy to get thier stories out and shared (which is vital to ad money and clicks).
Again, look at thier Facebook page. Notice how little thier content is clicked on or shared. It's because they pretty much spammed thier page.
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It could have been worse: Murdoch could have taken over. I had the sense that something was up when I purchased the paper this past Sunday- as I ordinarily have done on Sundays- and noticed that the weekly TV section and movie guide were missing. Inasmuch as The Times doesn't carry either one, I became accustomed to shelling out $1.25 every Sunday for a paper that otherwise offered little but a decent sports section and some amusing, anti-Trump op/ed pieces and political cartoons. Oh, well...
I'm 64 and I have completely switched over to digital subscriptions of this paper and other local dailies. If I'm doing it, everybody will be doing it soon.
Newsprint is dead, long live digital.
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It is end of an era. Without an independent free press seeking truth how will democracy survive?
The Daily News at its best was the revolutionary photo newspaper that captured the energy and swagger of New York and its average citizens. It was the stable of the subway rider and famed for its gossip and sports pages. Just wonderfully New York. What a sad day!
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There’s no such thing as an independent newspaper. It’s all controlled by wealthy owners.
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A sad day. And sadder yet that there are people in charge who think “Tronc” is an acceptable name for a corporation.
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I like it for all the local stories that you can't find in the Times, but scrolling down their home page the same stories are repeated two and three times. And just as prominent are the Kardashians, the Jenners, the bikini body of the week, the beach abs of the week, Justin Beiber's diamond for whoever it is he's engaged to. Tonight, someone is taking Serena Williams to Italy for dinner, someone named Bethenny is lounging in her bikini on the hood of "her sweet ride," Julia Roberts "smolders" during a photo shoot.
If I had Jeff Bezos's income, sure I'd keep subscribing, but to use part of my meager SS check for this is stuff is a waste of $$. And now it can only get worse.
Bye-bye.
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Terrible!!! I read the New York Times for global news, but nothing beat the Daily News for local stories. What a loss. I grew up with the Daily News, started reading it in junior high. I only started reading the Times in college.
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I just signed up for a digital subscription. (Hard to get delivery to Southwest Florida.)
There's a special of 99 cents/week for 12 weeks, them $1.99 a week. That's a lot of newspaper work for a few dollars. So many of their stories are feet-on-the-ground work and different coverage than what NYT carries. It's an add-to, not an instead-of.
A dollar a week toward saving an institution is a pretty reasonable contribution.
I hope NYT will allow this post.
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RIP, great paper.
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Canceled my digital subscription tonight (if there is anyone left to read my e-mail to Customer Service). I never was a print subscriber or buyer, but had signed on to support them. Now, R.I.P.
@Kayemtee
Why would you do that?
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@Patricia/Florida
Because they are owned by a company, who by this action, demonstrates a disregard for the readership they purport to serve. Do you think that solid reporting and good journalism just appears, like the Northern Lights, by natural or divine intervention? No, it takes reporters, researchers, fact checkers and editors. If you fire half of the staff, it is impossible to maintain quality.
From a fellow unemployed journalist: thanks to laid-off staffers for all of your hard work and dedication to a free, honest and factual press.
I'm sure there are many of us who wish Tronc would disappear into infamy after selling off its assets to those who truly understand the importance of the Fourth Estate. The LA Times was lucky so there's hope.
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“I’ve dodged a lot bullets over the years, and I just couldn’t dodge this one,” Scott Widener said.
Maybe not the best choice of words after what happened so recently in Maryland.
I started reading the Daily News in 1977 during the “Son of Sam” saga and fell in love with the earthy, punchy writing. So different from its sophisticated competitor. So long DN, a remnant of a New York City that lives on mostly in my memories.
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It’s such a win for the environment that instead of chopping down trees for newsprint for 2 million papers a day, only 200,000 papers are printed and the rest are online. When print newspapers finally die, millions of trees will be saved, landfills will be less crowded, and the greenhouses gasses from delivery trucks and recycling trucks will be eliminated. The death of these ancient newspapers has been in the cards for a generation, but it’s taken a long time to finally kill these giants. Online is the present and future of news and publications wedded to killing trees are roadkill.
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Well Rick you clearly have zero idea of how the industry works. I’m a longtime daily newspaper journalist and wouldn’t care less if we stopped the newspaper version of it all tomorrow. But that doesn’t work fir the simple reason advertisers are unwilling to pay the same prices they pay for full page ads, for web ads. So though you think it’s a grand idea, in the end it’s the end of newspapers completely. If the Daiky News - or any paper including the New York Times - dropped its print version, it’s be out of business within a year. Please learn a bit about the industry before spouting off what is truly fake news.
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First off, there's little reason to call the pending demise of a legendary newspaper "a win" under any circumstances. Secondly, Rick, and with respect (as I appreciate and share your concern for the environemnt), your argument isn't as black and white (and green) as you think. The paper industry has long used sustainable farming and harvesting practices, lest it lose the very source of its product. The average newspaper can be recycled four to seven times. (Estimates differ.) And do you really think the manufacture and use of computers and smartphones, plus the energy used to power them and recharge their batteries billions of times, doesn't leave a massive carbon footprint? Do you really think landfills are not loaded with improperly-disposed-of computers and phones and, perhaps worst of all, their toxic batteries? (That device people use to read the news these days contains lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, polyvinyl chloride and bromine.) The United Nations has reported that global e-waste has increased by 40 million tons annually...and that was back in 2009! Believe me, I love trees, and have the eco-group membership cards (paper) to prove it. But I don't accept the argument that digital = green.
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Trona is toxic. It nearly destroyed the LA Times. Now it looks like The Daily News is next.
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getting the latest news from the Daily News "Night Owl" edition at 9 or 10pm was so much bether than CNN's "Breaking News"
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Just a little reminder of where it all was, barely a year ago, when Tronc "bought" the paper from Zuckerman:
"The newspaper is housed in offices in lower Manhattan and the paper is printed in a 425,000-square-foot facility near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. It opened in 1996 and in 2009 was upgraded with the $150 million installation of high-speed presses. The property offers spectacular views of lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
"As part of this transaction, Tronc will own the printing plant as well as a 49.9 percent interest in a joint venture with Zuckerman to own and be able to eventually develop the 25-acre parcel on which the printing facility sits."
Nice. Run it into the ground, soak it dry, then sell the printing press, demolish the building & build beautiful, high-rise condos to take advantage of that spectacular view. Maybe Trump will build them. He seems to know his way around real estate.
"Tronc is focused on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the user experience and better monetize our world-class content in order to deliver personalized content to our 60 million monthly users and drive value for all of our stakeholders. Our rebranding to Tronc represents the manner in which we will pool our technology and content resources to execute on our strategy.”
New York to Tronc: DROP DEAD.
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The N.Y. Times reports the world.
The N.Y. Daily News was the heartbeat of the city.
Another N.Y. institution ends.
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And in an instant Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind" lyrics referring to the Daily News suddenly became quaint and dated --- like the scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the Pan Am space craft heading to the orbiting space station.
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Tronc: the real enemy of the American people.
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I very much wish newspapers' online pages had a tip jar feature. Even the ones I already pay to read, I'd love to be able to just say, with my pocketbook as well as my comments that hey, great investigative work there, thank you for doing it.
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The day TRONC sold the LA Times, employees popped corks. TRONC had trounced that paper the same way with multiple layoffs and firing of editors.
For better or worse, the Daily News needs a billionaire angel like the ones that bought the LA Times and the Washington Post. Hang in there, Daily Newsers. C'mon, Michael Bloomberg!
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First the subway token, and now the News. Next you'll tell me the Empire State Building is no longer the tallest in NYC.
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Doesn't The Post also lose tens of millions a year?
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@Lorem Ipsum
The NYPost loses over $100 million per year. (DN was "only" losing $30 mil a year.)
FOX / NEWS CORP subsidized it, ironically (how "communist" of them!) and now the NYT is in huge trouble as well and not telling the staff. The NYT also
loses $100 mil a year.
Running a paper is massively expensive, and none made any profit. All were funded by rich robber barons and jeff bezos.
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After getting out of the city in 2002 my copies of the daily news started piling up unread. Soon after I canceled my subscription and actually received a phone call from the paper. "You've been a subscriber for over 30 years, how can you cancel now?" I answered "I'm off the train and out of the city."
I always read the daily news back page first.
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Local CT city paper is using robots and cellphone salesman to hound every home in every surrounding town in CT to drum up sagging paper home delivery in CT. It is a losing battle similar to the Daily News. In decentralized CT, subscription sales have satellite phone staff operating from as far west as Missouri and as far east as Branford, dialing desperately to increase home delivery sales. Very few columnists left with careers over 5 years at any of what is left of the local papers. I think the Daily News website does real well and might have more time to run. The money those Daily News delivery route drivers used to brag about. Lots of subscription sales people cut their teeth in phone sales there as well. Employment opportunities are changing at every paper. Tweeting seems to have changed things for a lot of reporters.
I always longed for the Daily News as well as NY1 ever since I moved from NYC; whenever I went to visit my daughter in Albany, I would sit and watch NY1 for hours; couldn't get The Daily News in Albany.
NY1 and The Daily News, those two as well as the museums were what made NY home, (sorry NYT), even tried the Daily News subscription online but left after one 6 months stint very disappointed.
Sorry to see the "The Daily News" hit such hard times; nostalgia for the loss of the home town newspaper is like closing a familiar, and comforting chapter of my life.
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I can recall as a grade schooler reading the Daily News headlines and then choosing what story would be the best to read for that day. I can remember being fascinated by the headlines reporting Cruise Ship Andrea Dora Collides and Sinks, the headline of the murder of mobster Albert Anastasia in a barber's chair and of course the Brooklyn Dodgers big win of the World's Series. It was the Daily News' heyday. The big change was that the News " printing" was switching from Linotype to photo offset ..... Nowadays they're confronted with a publication process no " printing" necessary ...just an electronic message. I'm told that's progress...I guess.
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Subscribe while democracy strangles......
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I remember when my dad would send me over to Ogden Avenue and 170th St to buy it. It was a nickell and then seven cents.
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@Patrick
I seem to remember that the price rose from 5 cents directly to 8 cents. I recall the vendors at the subway stairs with a handful of pennies for change.
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The Daily News was the very first newspaper I read as a very young child. I remember reading about the Rosenberg trail and execution, probably in 1953. There is something about the character of this paper as revealed in its reporting that has remained remarkably consistent over the years. it has remained a valuable addition to the newspaper world, at least up until today, despite the disastrous consequences of the shift to the internet age.
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@Joseph L
The Rosenberg trial is among the first in my memory bank, too. I loved that paper.
When I was a youngster, I vacationed with my family on Long Beach Island in New Jersey, when acres of undeveloped sand and marsh meant walking blocks before you passed a building. Every morning for those two weeks I would trek to a soda-fountain store to get a copy of the New York Daily News that was 10 cents because it had to be "imported." He was not a happy camper if I had not gotten up with the gulls and the paper was sold out before I got there.
That was a time when, on a walk along the beach, if you met another person it was something to mention when you got back. Two and the beach was 'crowded.' And the Daily News was sold out every single day. It had to be more than New Yorkers vacationing and buying. that's how important that paper was.
This is a very sad day all around. Thank you, Daily News team, including the ones who remain. You've brought a lot of good things to a lot of people over the years.
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Thanks so much for that lovely memory. @Patricia/Florida
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Consider, instead of "combative" that Mr. Rich is expressing appropriate anger and disgust. And that I believe is what the majority of us should be feeling every day now.
Capitalism, in its current form, must cease or the vast majority of us have little chance for the pursuit of happiness.
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The vulture investment types like Michael Ferro would silence the media not out of a political agenda, but simply because they want to wring every last penny out of the corpses they are creating. Then they put the penny in their pocket and look for the next sector to destroy.
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Buy a subscription.
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The paper's owner gave itself away when it chose to call itself Tronc - I can't imagine a name that could more convey the image of heavy-handed clumsiness. Whatever the Daily News' difficulties, the clumsiest thing the management can do is appoint a non-journalist "outsider with a business background" to edit the paper. I sincerely hope that the employees rise up like they did at the LA Times and run Tronc out of town.
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"Cutting your way to profitability" has never worked in journalism, and won't work at the News. For example, what was Tronc management thinking when they laid off 75 percent of the Sports Dept., traditionally one of the News' strongest franchises? Simply moronic.
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Well when a corporate media outlet comes to the conclusion that it's ok to cut the staff in half and fire its Editor in Chief who'd been doing a very good job along with his colleagues, I say it's time for me to cancel my subscription. And I must admit that I had been enjoying the Daily News for the first time in my life. I'd say this is very bad news for the Daily News.
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One week after printing the "Open Treason" cover, the Daily News going under?
Any pressure on from the gov't on Tron CEO Justin Dearborn? I'm sure the same president who can pull a petty move such as removing security clearance from former intelligence chiefs for unwanted criticisms, surely is emotionally weak enough to use gov't to pressure its citizens.
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They'll be out of business in a year.
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This is a bigger loss than local TV news devolving into Page Six of the Post, but they are both fading away rapidly. Unless the two dinosaurs mate, they are both going extinct.
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My grandfather read the News because he wanted the late edition at 9:00 for the race track news. My parents read the Mirror. On Fridays I used to deliver chickens and I would spend a dime for the New York Journal American. We left the city in 1964 and went to the Miami Herald.
I returned to the city in 1970 but commuted to New Jersey. I read the Philadelphia Enquirer, the Burlington County News and The New York Post. (Page Six of course!)
I've read the Charlotte Observer for 40 years now.
I've been reading the papers for a long time. Of all of them I considered the New York Daily News the worst. I have never seen another newspaper with as many typos per edition. I think it's why it had so many pictures, they used them to cover up the typos.
Now I read the NY Times on line edition.
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The Daily News was read by just about every subway rider back in the 1970's. The paper had great writers - Breslin, Phil Pepe, and many others. Great sports section, photographs, etc. So sorry to see what has become of a once great New York City newspaper.
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Where is the worker owned paper? The writers have a direct stock ownership, and the billionaire gets to brag about his rare civic minded exotic thing: the local paper?
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@4Average Joe
Funny thing is that the locally owned paper, even if its proprietor was the moneybags operator of the local textile mill, always catered to its community. And the owner generally was content to operate at a break-even level or even a loss, making his bundles elsewhere.
The problem today is that the owners are either chains or private equity firms that need to keep stockholders or stakeholders rolling in dividends. The first paper to go down the tubes that way was the Los Angeles Times under the Chandler family — which, incidentally, was one of the origins of the megalith now known as Tronc.
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For all of the mocking of the paper when it was owned by Joseph Medill Patterson (think of Tom Paxton's song 'Daily News'), it was a paper that both knew its city and cared passionately about serving its readers.
Of course Tronc wants to stick with clickbait stories (that's what all the 'crime, civil justice and public responsibility mumbojumbo is about), since there are more page views for a website's story about a tawdry celebrity's arrest or the depredations of a drug gang than there are for one about the decision of a city planning board that might result in the devastation of a neighborhood.
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Really a shame for the paper that (with apologies to the Times) has always provided the best micro-local coverage of any paper. And especially now, when she paper has really found a new sense of purpose in the presidency of a character whose escapades the paper has been covering for decades. When I do my weekly visits to my Facebook feed, I inevitably have friends posting the latest Daily News cover of a perfect news-related caricature of our leader.
But let's face it: The paper has been hemorrhaging money for years. Rather than blaming Tronc, we should be thankful that t least it's keeping it alive.
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The Daily News might not have been at the level of the Times, but at least it was a mostly reliable and honest counterweight to the Trump-friendly NY Post for those who preferred tabloid papers. The Trump covers alone - which the Times can’t publish - will be missed!
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The Daily News was The Daily News . It was not about being The NY Times which did not have the comics in color on Sunday.
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Now that the adminstration has declared war on reality and on the United States, I guess "news" and "information" are obsolete. Sorry, "Newman".
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That is what happens when all you do is bark at Trump and print sensational garbage. Too many alike. Tough competition .
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@johnK Me thinks you miss much elsewhere in your mind as well ...
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Chain ownership of newspapers has brought nothing but ruin to this industry. Never ever believe anything a chain has to say about an acquisition.
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@Patrick
Losing classified ads and print advertising has more to do with it than chain ownership--there have been chains since the days of Wm. Randolph Hearst.
Ads were more than half a newspapers revenues. Ask anyone who remembers risking a hernia to take home the Sunday Times. Not a problem today.
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@Laurence Bachmann
I've read a number of newspapers owned by the Knight family. I think they are completely out of the business now
Tronc is a news-platform wrecking ball, not a builder. The owners will never go far enough to create even the digital version of what the NY Daily News used to be, back in the day, for every reader in the five boroughs and beyond. New York's home-town readership wants impartial reporting on local government and community concerns -- not just another click-bait bucket for the "hook, line and sinker" set.
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Reportedly all the photographers at "New York's Picture Newspaper" have been let go.
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@hertz
I wonder how long it will take the new destroyer owners to get rid of the old analog Press camera masthead logo?
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ANY loss of a newspaper (in any shape or format) is bad news, but, sadly, the News has been essentially a supermarket tabloid for the last few years. Screaming sensationalist headlines, less and less content (even local news), and a sports section (once a real strength) which has almost no info or sports news and random opining instead.
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I used to read the Daily News years ago. It is not the same paper as the current version. Sure, it was always a little tabloidish--but compared to the definitely tabloidish Post, it was almost as revered as the NY Times.
Today's Daily News is a cartoon and nothing more. I lost interest when the articles started imitating those in Star Magazine. It's a shame but reality finally caught up.
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Old joke: Macy’s is setting up its advertising fur the coming year and does a full day of conferences with all the media outlets. Local NYC papers are the last group to be seen. Their sales departments have been patiently waiting all day. Finally, the call in the NYT. Macy’s tells the Times “We’re doubling our ad purchases with you for the coming year. Your readers are our best customers. Their purchases are higher dollar amounts than any other group.” The Times thanks them and leaves. The Daily News is called in next. Macy’s tells them “Your readers are our most loyal customers. Year in and year out. In good times and bad. They shop with us for major occasions and to buy gifts. We’re doubling our ad purchases for the coming year.” The Daily News thanks them and leaves. The Macy’s reps pack up and head for the hall where they come across the NY Post team. “Hey, what about us, says the sales rep?” “We’re canceling our ads with the Post - your readers are our shoplifters!”
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It is awful that employees are losing their jobs at the Daily News and so many other news organizations.
But media distribution has been changing dramatically now for more than 20 years and journalism professionals and the business of journalism have to adapt.
The real problem ....still being worked out.... is that newspaper managers and owners didn't understand the internet or take it seriously.
So they gave their product away and later realized that was a mistake, since readers used to getting free online were then reluctant to pay.
Now that is changing. But for many news organizations it is too late. Some try to catch up with paywalls and expensive subscription fees. That hasn't worked very well.
News outlets have also been reluctant to go where the people are going online. They haven't been willing to make deals with eBay or other sites that get millions of viewers every day.
The Washington Post has Amazon financing and is doing well with small subscriber fees. The Times is also affordable for its excellent content.
There is no immediate answer but keeping content strong and subscriptions affordable will help. Journalism owners might also look into partnerships with popular non-journalism websites.
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@Baba
in fact, there are more IMMEDIATE answers and solutions than you could keep track of.
EX:
just Cuomo suggesting govt subsidies (which they gave to the DN in huge sums, when it was lying for Giuliani and Bloomberg) shows one example.
(Many major companies pay no taxes, or get billions in corporate welfare in other ways. Look at how many cities built stadiums for the rich, and those stadiums sit EMPTY 330 days a year! No economic development whatsoever. They just stole our taxmoney.)
THE PUBLIC has never been hungrier for news, and never before have more human beings read something every day.
THE PROBLEM, is there isn't one left nor right wing news source in America that isn't peddling dumb gossip or ulterior motive'd junk. Everyone's lost respect for them.
Justifiably.
Find me a news source that tells the truth, and I'll support them 365.
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@E Wang
"THE PROBLEM, is there isn't one left nor right wing news source in America that isn't peddling dumb gossip or ulterior motive'd junk. Everyone's lost respect for them."
The only current solution is the ability to have more than one newspaper choice.
Daily News was a liberal contrast to the NY Post. And now there really are no NYC newspapers.
My biggest fear is that now Twitter will become the news place. Despite what a lot of us believe, professional journalists do believe in their duty to present the news. Not their own silly opinions as you find the regular person presenting on Twitter.
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Jim Rich got it right about Tronc and its newspapers: "If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.” NYers should boycott the carcass of the NYDN that Tronc will put out on the street.
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I’m so sorry.
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If people would stop getting their news from social media and actually read this wouldn’t happen. People don’t like to actually read and write anymore. Trump has done this his whole life.
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Having been the victim last year of a similar slashing because of a need to dumb down for its audience, I feel their pain. Well-researched and -edited journalism has become extinct, replaced with hastily put-together news blips of less than 140 characters to appeal to the shortened attention span of today's reader audience. And now more than ever, we have to keep the klieg light focused on what is happening to this nation and the world, lest democracy slips away and becomes a faint vestige. There is no excuse for another genocide. We know better now and that is because of the unrelenting coverage of journalists—this generation's warriors.
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I remember when the Daily News had great sports and comics. The articles were OK, but lots of pictures. Now I only see the front page of the paper at the super market. It is an embarrassment. A disgrace to the first amendment. It is actually worst then the NY Post, something I never thought was possible. Sad.
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I grew up reading Dick Young, Red Foley, Jimmy Breslin...looked forward to the morning paper and missed it tremendously during the newspaper strikes.
Sorry to see a big part of my youth move further and further into the rear view mirror.
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It seems to be the Tronc business model. I know it's a tough business but Tronc has destroyed everything they own. Here in Connecticut, the Tronc owned Hartford Courant is now unreadable. No content and they took away the comments section, the only reason for reading.
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Did anyone buy the Daily News yesterday - July 22 - ? It was like trying to solve a rebus puzzle. One page of the Vue (tv guide) attached to an editorial page. No other pages of the Vue. The shortage of workers was very much in evidence. The paper was a disgrace. Is this what we have to expect for the future? Yikes!
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The digital NYDN is so rife with spelling errors and typos as to be laughable. When I do check it out occasionally, they're still there.
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They also recently instituted a pay-wall. You'd think with more money they'd be able to hire a decent proofreader or two?
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@Oui, Chef
That's because the modus operandi of these websites is to get the story up, fast and first. At some sites, the posting is up to the reporter alone, without any review by an editor for spelling, accuracy, or libel. If the blunder is bad enough (and if someone actually notices), perhaps they'll fix it later.
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@Oui, Chef
that's what the billionaires and corporations are doing:
laying off ALL the veterans, so they can hire ignorant KIDS to do all the writing and everything else, for minimum wage and no benefits.
and no one in govt is an adult with any solutions.
The idea of a business is to make money, and since it was only worth a dollar under current process I bet it had a negative value. Change is never popular to those being changed, I bet I might have cut 80% of them and then hired different talent to adjust to current markets. The NYT could use the same improvements.
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vulcanalex,
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
- Oscar Wilde
Thank you for proving Oscar Wilde's point.
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We believe you, vulcanalex!
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@Socrates
Excuse me, but what are you trying to say?
Well, well...it seems like Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't sell many papers...or draw many advertisers.
I'm shocked...shocked I tell you!!
Let's see how the TDS candidates do in drawing voters in November - and from which side of the aisle
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@Karl K
Forget Trump. The Daily News has been hemmorhaging for years. The last owner, famous out-of-touch elitist Mort Zimmerman, bears far more responsibility for the sorry state of the paper.
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Can someone who cares about news over profits, please step in pronto and buy this paper and hire back all the reporters? For the good of the city, the state and the nation. PLEASE!
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@Vic NY Who might that be, almost nobody makes investments does this. Now perhaps you should start a charity to own it, but I bet the current owner is going to improve it to make a profit, thus its value will increase.
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@vulcanalex
Do you read the Daily News? Or any other Tronc papers? Tronc is not capable of improving a newspaper. Its only goal is to improve its balance sheets, and it's not doing a good job of it.
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@Vic NY Mort Zuckerman was personally subsidizing it for years — millions of dollars a year out of his own pocket. There are very few people as rich as a Jeff Bezos, who can afford to do this (as Bezos does WaPo).
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Certainly one of the contributing factors to the decline in the media industry at this moment in our history is the man in the oval office. He has described the press as “the enemy of the people.” His cult only watches Fox News, and like him, they don’t read much, and certainly not the “fake news,” which most print media is. Readers need to stay loyal to their favorite media outlets and support them, to keep them alive in the Trump era. These are dark times. I will continue to read and support my favorite outlet for “fake news,” the “failing New York Times” (which I think has been profitable for many quarters.) Thank you New York Times for bringing us the “Fake News” as it breaks! I am a fake news addict.
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@Scott
Fixed your post, to wit:
Certainly one of the contributing factors to the decline in the media industry at this moment in our history is the fact that Trump has gotten journalists so wound up that that they have abandoned journalistic standards and devolved into left wing advocates and smear merchants, such focusing on sordid claims by porn stars instead of covering the issues. Trump has accurately described the press as “the enemy of the people” and they've proved him correct time and time again. His followers are hardworking individuals, many in the heartland for whom the Manhattan elites like the now unemployed staffers at the Daily News and commentators such as Scott in Philadelphia have nothing but contempt. But these aren’t dark times—these are the times when the people speak. I will continue to read my favorite outlet for “fake news,” the “failing New York Times” -- which is failing in the integrity department every single day. Thank you New York Times for bringing us the “Fake News” as it breaks and revealing yourself as simply the New York Daily News with a teensy eensy weensy bit more sophistication
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@Karl K
Karl, as in Marx? The heartland hates elites because they are intimidated by truth and knowledge.Real News Flash: Liberals and journalists are also hardworking. And this hardworking liberal journalist does not have contempt for those in the heartland. I am trying to preserve democracy for them and their children as well as for all. I work for truth. And as far as porn star coverage, I agree. It's the shiny object that is being thrown out there to divert from 45's attempt to overthrow democracy. And if a certain "president" hadn't chosen to take up with said porn star, there would be no story. He condemns himself with every tweet.
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Tina you may very well be a serious journalist, unbiased and with integrity. Unfortunately I can listen to so called journalists from both sides of the aisle and see they are just masquerading
"A company that once had hundreds of employees has over the years dwindled to a newsroom staff of approximately 75 to 100." A company that has a newsroom staff of 75-100 can still have hundreds of employees. What kind of statement is this?
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This is a sad day for the country, for journalism and for all the good souls at the NY Daily News. When I first entered my profession (public relations) back in the 70s in NYC, I was told that the NY Daily News was one of the best written newspapers in the country and that it often served as a springboard for those who wanted to go on to larger national newspapers. I’ve always believed that to be true. Crisp writing. Fine journalism. To all whose jobs are no more, I wish you the very very best. To those who remain, I wish you well. Godspeed to all.
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I too grew up reading the NY Daily News - if only for the sports - but in a digital age nobody is buying print anymore, and you need to be able to convince people to pay for your product online.
I gladly pay for The Times - but the Daily News is another matter. First off, the sports coverage ain't what it used to be - and the news coverage is not close to compelling enough to motivate a subscription.
The online comment system was so poorly run, so overrun by racists and trolls, that they had to shut it down.
And there was a period not too long ago where you could go to the News home page to discover the freakiest stories then making the rounds. If it was weird and wild, it was was on the home page of the News. But that was under previous management.
The 2nd best NY newspaper in my lifetime was the NY Newsday of the 1990s (the NYC version of the venerable LI paper, which itself appears to struggling for readership). I would digitally support a 2nd NY daily at the level of that failed experiment - but not these NY tabloids.
Heck, I will celebrate the day that Murdoch's Post goes out of business...
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In 1900 there were almost twenty (20) newspapers and over 100 piano manufacturers in NYC! Time, Media, and technology, have changed.
We have lost somethings, and we have gained somethings.
Anybody can post anything on a website: Media has never been totally honest: it's naive to think so.
As Citizen Kane said, "You supply the prose, we'll supply the war."
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I have a digital subscription to the Daily News, in addition to the NY Times and WaPo.
I read it because it covers local news the Times stopped covering a while back, when it went "international."
It covers the mayor and other issues I want to know about. It's well written and often has good editorials.
I think some people are confusing it with the NY Post, which is much more conservative and includes a lot of celebrity scandal.
I've decided wherever I live, I'm going to get the local paper in addition to the big ones. And right now that means the Daily News.
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The Daily News has been dying for years. On most days, half the paper is sports, and the rest is a large-type, space filling, largely ad free mix of populist outrage, superficial local “news”, and truncated wire service copy. The Times is the go to for news, the Post the go to for sports, and both the Times and Post have more political commentary, both left and right. On most days, the free newspapers actually have a wider range of news stories than the News. It’s sad to see good people lose their jobs, but the News just doesn’t have a niche anymore. Other than to gaze and be amused at its provocative covers, there’s simply no need to pay attention to the News. The death rattle is hard to watch.
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The Post used to be the paper of provocative covers and content. The Daily News, within the last couple of years, has easily overshadowed the Post.
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Sad but true. Print media is dead. The sign of the times. The media is in a free fall. And the only way to grab readers attention is. If it bleeds,it leads.The sensationalistic nature of reporting is shock and awe. There are few true news reporting outlets left. The NY Times is fortunately one of those few fair and unbiased outlets left.
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@Charles--the NYT is "unbiased" only if you like way-far left politics(as far left as you can go). If you prefer something more in the middle--you're out of luck.
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@Norton
Yes, The NYTimes endorsed that liberal Bernie Sanders cuz they're liberal ----- oh wait.
They endorsed the super-conservative candidate (hillary was 900% more con than DT is) and war monger, Hillary, who Bush-Cheney's entire team endorsed, as did Fox News when she ran for senate.
Any cons care to explain why not ONE "liberal" media outfit endorsed the liberal candidate (bernie)?
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Advice to a journalist means
"stock up on your cheap pork and beans"
cuz newsroom repeal
is now very real --
the triumph of Tronc philistines.
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Chalk another one up to the International Mafia Robber Baron/radical religion Good Old Boys' cabal.
As the article says, "Mr. Rich went public with his displeasure in a Twitter post: “If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.”
BIG business, and some businesses at all levels, have become a cesspool of corruption and greed. Robber Barons are allowed to borrow money to take over companies and destroy them then pocket the profits. Now they want to destroy governments, fact-based communications and regulations around the world so they can rob us blind without interference by OUR elected representatives. It's insane to allow it to go on.
Good luck to Mr. Rich and all the other democracy-loving journalists and media people who have been cast aside in the Robber Baron power quest to take and control all communications.
Please join forces and create employee-owned organizations - with NO outside investors who are actually just profit hieves - and help WE THE PEOPLE save/preserve/restore true democracy in OUR United States of America and around the world.
NOW is the time. There may not be another time for centuries.
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I'm sorry, but each of those workers knew exactly what they were doing.
Live by greed, die by greed.
They helped the government and big business lie to us and murder the American dream. They helped us get into the most American wars in our history. All of them, totally fake, killing our dads, our moms, our sons and daughters.
It's only fitting that all these Good Soldiers get stabbed in the back by their corporate masters.
Cause... meet effect.
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Oh, those balmy nights, just before 9PM, at the newstand by the Sea Beach Station, next to Ebinger's, on Eighteenth Avenue, waiting for the Bull Dog edition to arrive by truck! Forever, gone with the wind! And that was way before this further sad news!!!
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@Counter Measures
I grew up on 20th avenue and 65th street-
and- yes- I recall the old guys waiting for the Daily News
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I remember getting the NY Sunday News every Sunday at the newsstand set up in front of Our Lady of Hope Church.
The comics were the best in any newspaper, fronted by Dick Tracy. The two-page crime thriller was tucked in the center. The sports pages were excellent and covered my Yankees in detail.
And Bill Gallo's cartoons were something to look forward to each week. And the news was written briefly, succinctly, and generally conservatively.
Now, it is a very liberal rag, with front pages that look to anger rather than draw interest. The sports pages have waned.
I no longer read this paper, while subscribing to four others online. I see its covers at the supermarket news rack or on Twitter, each one more incendiary than the last. They do not cause me to open the paper or to seek the article behind them.
As the NY Daily News approaches its demise, it also approaches its nadir. A shadow of its former self, it yells out its front-page venom, and no longer piques my interest. Goodbye.
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@rcrigazio Well said. Small world. I used to work for a feature syndicate and sold cartoons to The News. Best editor they ever had was Pete Hamill. He loved the comics. Why? Hamill knew they were part of Americana.
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Venom?! The NY Post, and many of the folks at Trump rallies, have a lock on that!
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And the death of printed media continues. When will these print media companies ever realize that they are going the way of the horse and buggy? I would never take a job at a print media company, would you? It is a shame but this is how capitalism works. When your product is no longer viable, you need to adapt or die.
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@Mike L: Print media will never die out, b/c we need (and want) a permanent record of events, and if you think "the cloud" is going to save everything, you're wrong. Nobody has yet hacked my physical copy of the Times, Daily News, or any other newspaper or magazine.
To say that print media is dying out is also to say that we'll never need libraries anymore, b/c books in physical format are unimportant - which is also not true!
Furthermore, websites keep moving articles around, "refreshing" their site so that the article I saw an hour ago has disappeared to somewhere else - or has been pulled off entirely. Whereas if I see an article I want to read on page A10 of the Times newspaper that was delivered to my door, that article will still BE on page A10 when I get home to read it at the end of the day.
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@L I read no books in physical format, it is becoming obsolete.
@vulcanalex--On the contrary, people are returning to physical print books. It has something to do with the idea of getting to hold something in your hand, which is so satisfying, unlike viewing a computerized page.
What's going to happen to all you techno-lovers when there's an internet blackout/glitch/attack which disables your reading/news source? You'll probably all lose your mind--I won't, and neither will the rest of us "Luddites" who recognize the value of the actual printed page.
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I'm just enraged. This is exactly what happened to the LATimes. Tronc decimated the LATimes and stole, literally stole its iconic Art Deco building that was central to my childhood memories and sold it off to line the greedy pockets of its corporate raider executives. Why aren't the executives being laid off or having their fat bonus packages clawed back?!
When will the people realize that we are in the END DAYS of a multi-decade assualt by the 1%, Republicans, Trump, and Putin to destroy American democracy. This is obviously the plan of these companies that bought up these papers and television networks. Destroy the Fourth Estate as soon as their man is in the White House arm in arm with his kleptocratic thuggish Russian handler to ensure everyone else is forevet doomed to serfdom on their plantations. I hate America more than ever now and the complicit GOP is to blame.
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@left coasst
Since the LATimes owned the LA Times building, who do you think they stole it from?
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@left coast finch Breath, please.
This is about the end of print newspapers, given the shift towards online content.
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@left coast finch--Print newspapers have been dying out for a very long time--way before this administration. There's just no support for print journalism when people can go online to get their news. I doubt any political party can/wants to stop that--and probably are equally as complicit--Dems as well as Republicans.
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So, the new editor-in-chief at the New York Daily News spent most of his career in San Diego. This does not bode well for the New York Daily News. It sounds to me like Tronc is just trying to kill off the Daily News bit by bit.
The idea that Mr. York, from San Diego, and most recently working in Allentown, PA (not exactly a hotbed of cutting-edge news reporting), will have a good grasp of what the Daily News is about - much less what it means to so many New Yorkers - is off-the-wall crazy.
Thanks for nothing, Tronc. (And, BTW, "Tronc" sounds like the name of a long-extinct dinosaur! There is probably a good reason for that.)
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@L Somehow you think that an intelligent person can't run an organization since they are not from NYC? How foolish.
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@L Newspaper editors have always been people who have worked in other cities, or even nations, like the political editor for the British Daily Mirror, a New Yorker.
@vulcanalex
says a guy from Tennessee. if you were a new Yorker, you would understand the problem.
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Gosh how will CNN afford to hire all those liberal "journalist"
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The NYDN, once a great paper, is now resorted to daily race baiting stories. Time to put it out of its misery.
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Tragic. Tronc has zero sense of civic responsibility. Top management has been greedy and wrong-headed since the 1990s and the stupid just keeps getting worse under the idiotic Tronc moniker. You don't sell more by making a worse product.
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@Nuria
There's civic responsibility and then there is paying the bills. With the collapse of the newspaper ad market and classifieds. Any owner of a print paper goes into it knowing that they will be losing a lot of money.
I have a feeling in the next 15-20 years, if things don't change, there won't be any print papers other than a few niche types.
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Hitler also had all of the German news outlets converted to government propaganda machines. Is that what's going on here? A conservative takeover of every media outlet in the country?
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@Allison So private companies are now the government?? Any your talk of such is idiotic.
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@vulcanex: Look, I know that you're a right-wing troll & have no clue about many things. So I will patiently explain to you that Hitler rose to power partly because he was backed by fascist nationalists boosted by right-wing media. When he finally took over, one of the first things he did was secure the backing of all media. Why do you think Goebbels has been hailed as a master propagandist? The Nazis knew how to threaten & intimidate anyone who resisted them. Owners of any business who refused to go along with his program were punished, initially with boycotts, & later through arrests & deportations to so-called labor camps. Jewish owners were forbidden by law to own property & were even forbidden to practice certain professions at all.
Many industrialists & newspaper owners were quite satisfied with this arrangement, since it eliminated the competition, & they supported the Nazis & their program. Why? Because their greed got the better of their consciences - which is generally the biggest problem with you gung-ho, regressive capitalists.
Anyone who's been watching the gradual takeover of American media by large corporations, & turn them into what are essentially propaganda arms for the Republican party & Evangelical cults, should be alarmed by this trend. It's been going on since Rush hit the radio & has only worsened as more corporations realize that controlling information is the way to brainwash people into voting against their own interests.
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This is a direct result of trump and Putin attacking the free press. There can be no other credible reason.
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Yes, of course. That explains why WaPo and NYT are making drastic cuts as well. Oh, wait . . . they're not.
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Tronc's ownership isn't in the business in order to produce quality journalism. All the head honchos care about is making money.
The Chicago Tribune is now only a shadow of its former self.
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Interesting, Tronic just purchased The Virginian-Pilot, the largest daily in the state of Virginia.
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They might as well reduce The Daily News to a twitter account.
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@damon walton let all the news makers go, hire news reporters not makers!
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This sounds like what happened to the Boston Herald...
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Angelenos are so happy that the LA Times finally escaped the clutches of Tronc, and into the hands of someone who appears to recognize how important quality journalism is. Chicago, where Tronc mutated out of the Chicago Tribune, is enjoying a much improved Sun-Times since it was bought by a union-based consortium. Condolences to New York, although the only thing that made the Daily News palatable was comparing it to the Post. It looks like the two will now be in a race to the bottom.
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@stuart
"Escaped" but not before it was literally raped and pillaged for all of its valuable assets. These corporations are criminals and should be treated as such.
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When such a broadly-read newspaper becomes less of a paper all of New York loses. I read the New York Times, but I want healthy vibrant alternative papers for those New Yorkers who prefer to turn to alternatives.
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@Nancy
But, to be fair, this is a bed THEY (the workers) made themselves.
To this day, the MSM won't even permit discussion of SOLUTIONS (because every "problem" - from homelessness to crime to fake wars - is artificially created by the 1%, who LOSE POWER if the rest of us aren't poor or weak).
For instance, these editors and reporters won't allow ANY discussion of a MAXIMUM wage.... which would've saved all their jobs!
(I suggest a $400,000 a year Max wage for america. Anyone needs more than that, they can explain it to the rest of us. Even the rich admit they're all obscenely overpaid!! And the rich HOARD money. EX: Bill Gates won't buy 50,000 homes, but give some of his money back to his 50,000 victims, er, customers, 100% will buy a house? Get it? Reaganomics / Hyper-Capitalism RUINED EVERYTHING.)
(If Movie Stars and Rock Stars and Athletes are making a MAX of $400K per year, then taking your kids to a Yankees' game will be $3 tix and $3 popcorn and $3 beer? See? A maximum wage instantly hyper-charges the economy, as ALL americans suddenly have more disposable income to go out to movies, or restaurants, or buy things. The 1% hoarded all the cash, so the economy tanked and can't come back.)
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@E Wang
There isn't anyone being laid off at the News making anywhere near $400,000.
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The news keeps getting worse, on a grand scale, every single day of the week. I would think MORE newsroom staff would be needed, not less.
Sincere and heartfelt condolences to all who have been pink slipped today. I feel guilty reading this article in the NYT.
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I'm very sad to hear this. I wish it were possible for those who are being laid off to start-up a NEW newspaper (even if only digitally). We can't afford to lose what the Daily News has traditionally brought to New Yorkers!
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i grew up with the News. it's done great work these past years, facing trump's thuggery unbowed. i don't want to say that the new ownership seems intent on turning it into another Metro or AMNY, but things look to be going that way.
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I love the Daily News. The newspaper's writers speak to people of all colors, especially those who struggle with paying the mortgage or rent and putting up with the delightful craziness of New York City. I feel bad for Daily News writers laid off by Tronc, but other media outlets will hire them, and they will do well. City and state leaders should find a way to help the Daily News recover and continue to provide news that sometimes breaks my heart, gets me mad, or makes me laugh. Exactly what I need every day.
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@Karen Hinton
Actually, there are more "journalists" than ever, so fewer paying jobs available.... plus, any media company will hire KIDS so they can pay them bottom barrel wages and no benefits etc.
But, again, it's nobody's fault but the paper's staffs, who have always assisted corporate greed. What goes around...
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I miss the days of a cuppa cawfee, a bialy, and the News, sitting on my old stoop in Brooklyn. It’s all gone now, and for what?
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To make Tronc's benefactors happy. Wouldn't want more of those wonderful "covfefe" frontpages to offend their boss...or his.
Now the Post can rest easy.
Make a note of this, and NYT's reluctance to use a powerful word ("lies") against a powerful mental ward ("covfefe"). When anyone calls it "the liberal media", laugh, walk away from them, and vote.
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Breaks my heart as a member of the ink in your veins era of newspapers especially in NYC where
The Daily News ruled. End of era that had been coming for some time in these changing times.
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I am very sorry for the many great, hard working people at the Daily News. It is absolutely awful to be laid off on such a mass scale and have your livelihood taken away. I wish you all a good future and a path to forging a new creative life.
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TRONC TO DAILY NEWS:
DROP DEAD
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My late father was a photographer at the New York Daily News for 48 years. He survived numerous buyouts, ownership changes, and strikes. Though I understand that print media is dying off, my heart still breaks that my Hometown Paper is being hit with more layoffs. I think the beginning of the end was when the paper left 220 E. 42nd Street. Nothing was really ever the same after that. If I could embed a broken hearted emoji into this comment, I would.
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@lesetchka Hi! I'm the Historian of the New York Press Photographers Association. Could you e-mail me at [email protected]?
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@lesetchka There was no reason for it to be in an area that had become very high rent. The sale is what kept the News solvent — for a while.
I love the Daily News. "Scrappy" is always the word that comes to mind when I think of it. I grew up reading the DN and I still love their covers. Dang, I wish I was filthy rich and could buy it and let it run like the old days. They have been a thorn in Trump's side, I'm sure. Sigh.
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I can still vividly recall the day I was hired as a copy boy at the Daily News, and was ushered into the newsroom for my first exposure: the widest grin I’d ever worn spread across my face. The energy, the rapid, seemingly chaotic pace of a daily newspaper approaching deadline was thrilling. And what I and my fellow copy boys learned from “the bench” has never left me.
A career in journalism followed, and with that now under my belt, the remembrance of my romantic beginning with the craft has had to make room for the sad decline of New York’s Picture Newspaper.
I was there during a high point in the paper’s existence, and have many of the talented reporters and editors to thank for what they taught me by simply going about their jobs with all the skills and determination they had to produce that first draft of New York and U.S. history.
Foremost in my mind today is the great Joe Kovach...
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Until just a month ago, my local paper, the Los Angeles Times, was also owned by Tronc and they were about to destroy my paper with more budget cuts, newsroom layoffs and even considering closing the papers Washington offices. That is, until a revolt by newsroom employees who decided to unionize, convinced Tronc to sell the paper to a Los Angeles-based billionaire, bringing my paper back to local control for the first time in 18 years. Until 2000, my paper was owned by Times-Mirror, run by the L.A.-based Chandler Family. By 2000, the Chandlers sold the paper to Tribune, owners of the Chicago Tribune and over the last 18 years, Tribune butchered my once great paper, which used to be up there with The New York Times and The Washington Post. Now they are destroying The Daily News. The Daily News needs to be controlled by local people in the tri-state area, not people from outside.
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I got to write for NYDN briefly and loved it. Mike Daly, quoted here, was one of their best reporters and writers. Losing this New York voice is awful.
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A sad day and just following my giving my young nephew a bundle of Daily News papers I hoarded from World War 2 ,what a local newspaper it was ,if it were Aaron Coplan it would surely be a"Fanfare for the Common Man".
I recently subscribed to the NYT after tiring of counting my ten free news Items to read every month, as it were, I would never subscribe to the NY Daily News, as it long ago failed me in neighborhood news ,not just mugging and mugging stories but truly local news.
I also miss "Gothamist" (NY) entirely written on line when it was so local I would guess which of my neighbors in Chelsea were writing of events or hurts under a nom de plume.
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My first "real job" when I got out of the Air Force was as a cub reporter for a local daily. I had no experience but within 6 months of covering school committee and selectmen meetings, I learned a ton. I also had an old-school editor who taught me the rules of writing clearly and impartially. The goal was to inform, not influence. Back then, we "typed" on manual typewriters and sheet-cut newsprint. And we waited until the next day to see the finished product. Today, many "journalists" go to "press" without editorial review and it shows. And too many try to influence rather than inform.
This is sad news, especially given that Don the Con will spin this as another cruel "win." But print has limited power these days, and unless there are more rich white knights, or stronger community support, newspapers will vanish, like my old Royal typewriter. Let's hope the mission of informing stays alive. There's a lot of muck to rake out there.
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The article reads like an obit--and it probably is.
I was a copy boy at The Daily News once upon a time. Oh the stories I could tell! Like that one of my jobs was to get the composing room editor his regular double daiquiri on the rocks to go from a local bar and then the night of the Kennedy-Nixon election . . . oh never mind. Going . . . going . . . just about gone. All sad.
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When I was 8 and in 3d grade I started taking the City bus to elementary school. At the bus stop was a luncheonette where the paper was sold. Every day I'd buy a Daily News and immediately turn to the back page to read about the Yankees. I think that the cost of the paper was something like 3¢.
Everyday I'd walk into school with a folded Daily News tucked under my arm, sports side always out.
One day I got a rebuke from one of the teachers. She reprimanded me for reading The Daily News instead of a finer paper like The Times. I remember thinking that here I am, 8 years old, reading The News. She should be happy that I was reading anything.
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I guess I came around a little later. I remember the Daily News when it was 5 cents daily and fifteen cents on Sunday. It was considered trash by educators. It emphasised crime and scandal. The women in the crime stories were always described as "petite" or "statuesque. The New York Times and the Herald Tribune we're considered the only "real" newspapers although for some strange reason a lot of teachers read the Journal American. I do think that a hundred years from now the whole idea of getting your news from ink spread on a pound of paper and delivered by trucks will seem scarcely believable.
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How sad. I'm an out-of-towner and didn't subscribe, but I admire(d) their trenchant front pages and appreciated that they were presenting a realist/liberal viewpoint that was communicating with middle America, which needs a less intellectual (than the NYT) counterpoint to Faux Noise and the New York Post. It's sad to see this diminution on a probable journey to oblivion for a once mighty and reasonably responsible (if not always excellent) newspaper.
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TRONC TO CITY: DROP DEAD
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