Mass shootings, political violence and school safety are front of mind for many Americans following a spate of high-profile attacks. Experts who study gun violence unpack the data and trends.
NPR’s Shelby Buckman and Adam Hale Shapiro, along with Moritz Sudhof and Daniel J. Wilson, use the FRB San Francisco Economic Letter to track sentiment about news coverage in a way that tries to account for differences in the way people read different newspapers. The new Daily News Sentiment Index aggregates individual articles into a time series, with weights that decline geometrically over the length of time since publication.
Founded in 1919, the New York Daily News was the first tabloid newspaper published in the United States. At its height, the paper had a circulation of about 2.4 million copies per day and was one of the eleven highest-circulation newspapers in the country. It was a rival to the New York Post and other sensational tabloids. In the 1920s, it found abundant subject matter such as government wrongdoing (such as the Teapot Dome scandal) and social intrigue (such as the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII). It also devoted much attention to photography; an early adopter of the Associated Press wirephoto service, it developed a large staff of photographers.
The Daily News maintained a large bureau in the city, and a number of other local offices around the country. Its newspaper headquarters at 220 East 42nd Street (also known as The News Building) is an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman films and remains home to former News subsidiary WPIX-TV.