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Los Angeles Daily News

Daily newspaper in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Daily News

Daily newspaper in Los Angeles

FieldValue
nameLos Angeles Daily News
imageLa daily news 7-19-09.jpg
captionFront page, July 19, 2009 edition
typeDaily newspaper
formatBroadsheet
founded
(as the Van Nuys Call)
ownersMediaNews Group
headquarters21622 Plummer Street, Suite #200
Chatsworth, California 91311
United States
editorFrank Pine
publisherRon Hasse
staff_writersTom Bray (City editor), Ryan Carter (Local news editor), Teresa Liu (Los Angeles city government and school district reporter), Linh Tat
languageEnglish
circulation56,493 Daily
79,646 Sunday
circulation_dateSeptember 2014
circulation_ref
website
free(1930-1963)

(as the Van Nuys Call) Chatsworth, California 91311 United States (Los Angeles County state/federal political reporter), Steve Scauzillo (Los Angeles County government and transportation reporter), Olga Grigoyants (San Fernando Valley reporter), Josh Cain (Public safety reporter), Tarak Fattal (High school sportswriter), Susan Shelley (editorial board member). 79,646 Sunday

The merged ''The Van Nuys News'' <small>(in big letters)</small> and ''The Van Nuys Call'' <small>(in small letters)</small> (January 22, 1915)

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.

History

Earlier titles

The Daily News began publication in Van Nuys as the Van Nuys Call in 1911, 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. 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.

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''

In 1981, the paper changed its name to the Daily News of Los Angeles and became a daily publication. 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.

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.

The Daily News endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, but then endorsed his opponent Mitt Romney in 2012.

Similarly titled earlier newspapers

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.{{cite web

References

References

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  2. "Daily News - Contacts". [[Southern California News Group]].
  3. (2000). "Los Angeles A to Z". [[University of California Press]].
  4. Kaye, Ron. "Who Better to Kill a Newspaper Than a Journalistic Mortician: The Ed Moss Story". Ron Kaye (blog).
  5. (2001). "Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering". [[University of Arkansas Press]].
  6. Roderick, Kevin. (April 1, 2013). "Al Martinez pens final column for changing Daily News". LA Observed.
  7. "Barack Obama for president". Los Angeles Daily News.
  8. "Los Angeles News Group Endorsement: Mitt Romney for president". Los Angeles Daily News.
  9. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/80567822/?terms=%22Los%2BAngeles%2BDaily%2BNews%22 "Old Relics Unearthed", ''Los Angeles Herald'', February 29, 1896, image 6]
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