Founded in 1919, the Daily News bills itself as “New York’s Hometown Newspaper,” informing everyday New Yorkers about their city and more. The paper has been known over the years for zesty headlines — perhaps most famously, “Ford to City: Drop Dead” during the city’s financial woes in 1975 — gossip, intense city coverage and star columnists, including Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill. The paper has also won several Pulitzer Prizes for public service journalism, most recently for an investigation into how local authorities used an obscure law to evict families from their homes.
A news article is a report of current events, usually from the past week or less. The article usually includes important information about the event such as who, what, when, where and why. The article may also include background or other context to help readers understand what the event is all about.
News articles often follow an Inverted Pyramid format, meaning that the most important information (who, what, when, where and why) is placed at the top of the article and other information follows in decreasing importance. This format is designed to allow readers to get the gist of a story quickly and easily.
Most traditional newspapers also feature opinion articles that express a particular point of view on a topic, called editorials, and opinions expressed by guest writers, called op-eds. The papers also typically contain sports sections, classified ads and comics.
A news article usually reports on the news, which is a record of current events and may contain commentary or analysis. It can also be a record of historical events such as wars or natural disasters. News articles are usually written in a narrative style, which is a type of writing that tells a story.
The Yale Daily News is the oldest college daily in the United States. Published every day during the academic year, the News is the primary source of news and debate on campus. Its alumni have gone on to careers in journalism and public service, including William F. Buckley, Dale Messick, John Hersey, Sargent Shriver, Strobe Talbott, and Calvin Trillin.
Each daily news article contains comprehension and critical thinking questions, found below the article. The News also offers “Background” and “Resources” sections that provide additional information to help students understand the story.
The News reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns. For more information on our submission guidelines, please see our Newsroom Policies page here.
This dataset provides an ongoing measure of economic sentiment as reported in the Daily News, a high frequency US newspaper. The data is a weekly time series of sentiment measures calculated using the News Sentiment Index, a high-frequency, textual measurement of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of individual news articles. See Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof and Wilson, 2020 for details of the methodology. The data is available to download, with a monthly average and a weekly average for each of the last 12 months.