The New York Daily News Is Said to Be Nearing Sale
Source: New York Times
The Daily News, the nearly 100-year-old tabloid owned by the real estate magnate Mortimer B. Zuckerman, is close to announcing an agreement for its sale to Tronc, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.
The deal is expected to be announced on Tuesday, according to people briefed on the negotiations.
The deal would be the end of an era for The News, which was long a voice for New York’s working class and for decades set the city’s agenda with its gossip, sports and city coverage.
The News once boasted A-list columnists including Liz Smith, Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, but it has been worn down by a grinding tabloid war with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled New York Post. And like the rest of the newspaper industry, The News has been battered and bruised by the internet age, when the equivalent of pithy headlines — a staple of The News — come a mile a minute on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/business/new-york-daily-news-sale-tronc.html
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That would be the end of such pithy front pages as this -
or this -
Sigh...
and how people read less newspapers and get crafted news on the internet...
I grew up in a NY Daily News household. We got it delivered everyday.
from the time I could read, I read it cover to cover. loved it all. Liz Smith, Breslin, and Hamill were paragons in my eyes.
it was the newspaper that I followed my beloved NY Yankees via Mike Lupica.
They also had the best Sunday comics. 
really sad to see it go. 