Daily newspaper in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Daily News
Front page, July 19, 2009 edition
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Type
| Daily
newspaper
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Format
| Broadsheet
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Owner(s)
| MediaNews Group
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Publisher
| Ron Hasse
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Editor
| Frank Pine
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Founded
| 1911
; 113 years ago
(
1911
)
(as the
Van Nuys Call
)
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Language
| English
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Headquarters
| 21622 Plummer Street, Suite #200
Chatsworth
,
California
91311
United States
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Circulation
| 56,493 Daily
79,646 Sunday (as of September 2014)
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Website
| dailynews
.com
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The
Los Angeles Daily News
is the second-largest-circulating paid daily
newspaper
of
Los Angeles
,
California
, after the unrelated
Los Angeles Times
, and the flagship newspaper of the
Southern California News Group
, a branch of Colorado-based
Digital First Media
.
The offices of the
Daily News
are in
Chatsworth
, and much of the paper's reporting is targeted toward readers in the
San Fernando Valley
in
Los Angeles
. Its stories tend to focus on issues involving local San Fernando Valley businesses, education, and crime.
The editor currently is Frank Pine.
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History
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Earlier titles
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The
Daily News
began publication in
Van Nuys
as the
Van Nuys Call
in 1911,
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morphing into the
Van Nuys News
after a merger with a competing newspaper called the
News
.
In 1953, the newspaper was renamed the
Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet
.
[3]
The front page was produced on green newsprint. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley.
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In 1971, the newspaper was sold to the
Tribune Company
by the original family owners.
In 1976, to de-emphasize the Van Nuys location, the paper changed its name to the
Valley News and Green Sheet
, and gradually converted from the four times a week operation to a daily newspaper with paid circulation. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000.
Los Angeles Daily News
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In 1981, the paper changed its name to the
Daily News of Los Angeles
and became a daily publication.
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In 1985, Tribune bought
KTLA
, and due to ownership laws of the time, Tribune sold the paper to
Jack Kent Cooke
, who spent millions of dollars building state of the art offices and expanding coverage to include the entire
San Fernando Valley
.
When the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
went out of business November 2, 1989, it left the
Daily News
the second-biggest paper in the city behind the
Los Angeles Times
. Upon Cooke's death in 1997,
William Dean Singleton
's MediaNews purchased the newspaper and consolidated it with his other Southern California MediaNews holdings into the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
[5]
The group briefly published local editions for the
Antelope Valley
,
Santa Clarita
and
Ventura County
. However, to cut costs and consolidate resources, the local editions were eliminated.
As part of circulation reporting for the
Southern California News Group
, all papers in LANG are considered editions of the
Daily News
.
[6]
The
Daily News
endorsed
Barack Obama
for president in 2008,
[7]
but then endorsed his opponent
Mitt Romney
in 2012.
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Similarly titled earlier newspapers
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The
Daily News
bears no relation to an earlier historic
Los Angeles Daily News
(1923?1954), a morning newspaper based in
Downtown Los Angeles
(originally the
Illustrated Daily News
) that ceased publication on December 18, 1954.
An even earlier newspaper called the
Los Angeles Daily News
was printed beginning in 1869 and continuing for a number of years after.
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See also
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References
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"Total Circ for US Newspapers"
.
Alliance for Audited Media
. September 2014. Archived from
the original
on March 6, 2013
. Retrieved
June 11,
2015
.
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"Daily News - Contacts"
.
Los Angeles Daily News
.
Southern California News Group
. Archived from
the original
on 2008-06-02
. Retrieved
2008-06-10
.
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a
b
c
Pitt, Dale (2000).
Los Angeles A to Z
.
Berkeley, California
:
University of California Press
. p. 109.
ISBN
978-0-520-20530-7
.
OCLC
248510988
.
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Kaye, Ron.
"Who Better to Kill a Newspaper Than a Journalistic Mortician: The Ed Moss Story"
. Ron Kaye (blog). Archived from
the original
on 19 January 2016
. Retrieved
23 June
2015
.
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Roberts, Gene
; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001).
Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering
.
Fayetteville
:
University of Arkansas Press
.
ISBN
1610752325
.
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Roderick, Kevin (April 1, 2013).
"Al Martinez pens final column for changing Daily News"
.
LA Observed
. Retrieved
23 June
2015
.
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"Barack Obama for president"
.
Los Angeles Daily News
. Archived from
the original
on 28 June 2011
. Retrieved
23 June
2015
.
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"Los Angeles News Group Endorsement: Mitt Romney for president"
.
Los Angeles Daily News
. Archived from
the original
on 20 April 2013
. Retrieved
23 June
2015
.
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"Los Angeles daily news"
.
Los Angeles Public Library L2PAC Catalog
.
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"Old Relics Unearthed",
Los Angeles Herald
, February 29, 1896, image 6
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