«But for many years, The Daily News, available to actual New Yorkers, in their neighborhoods, offered up a seven-day feast of sweet and savory stories»

The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era’s End

Alan Feuer du New York Times

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From its former height of nearly one million copies a day, The News now has a daily circulation of slightly more than 300,000, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, about 130,000 copies of which are single-copy newsstand sales. Only five years ago, The News was selling about 346,000 newsstand copies daily on a total circulation of 525,000.

Given that the paper is said to lose between $20 million and $30 million a year (The Post, by comparison, has annual estimated losses of almost $100 million), Mr. Zuckerman put the paper up for sale in February, but after flirting with several suitors he withdrew it from the market last month.