The Daily News is a morning tabloid newspaper founded in 1919. It was the first successful tabloid in the United States and attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, lurid photographs, and cartoons. The paper also emphasized international news, and its foreign correspondents were renowned. In its heyday the newspaper had the largest circulation of any in the world. After a decline in readership, the paper folded in 1978.

Many different types of weekly newspapers are published in North America. These include local, regional and national weeklies that focus on news within their respective geographic coverage areas (e.g., metropolitan areas, states or provinces). Local weekly newspapers may have a single news editor responsible for all aspects of the publication, including advertising, editorial and production, or they might have one or more editors and reporters. The latter often have specific beats such as schools, police and government news or business news.

A few large weekly newspapers, such as those in major cities, have staffs of several journalists, with each reporter assigned a particular area of the city or region to cover. In addition to covering news, the reporters often write editorial pieces, conduct interviews and provide social commentary. Likewise, many of these publications have an opinion page that publishes letters to the editor and guest columns on a variety of topics.

Weekly newspapers often have a public-record section, which contains summaries of police incidents and fire department calls, court cases (including judgments, orders or settlements) and property-repossession notices. In some states, the law requires that municipal governments designate a newspaper to receive their official public-record notices. The designated newspaper receives a fee for this privilege, which is a significant source of revenue for the weekly newspapers.

Besides local news, many weekly newspapers have entertainment and lifestyle sections that may feature reviews of local theater and arts events, restaurant reviews and food recipes. The larger city papers may have an extensive sports page and a celebrity gossip section. Family news pages include announcements of births, engagements, marriages and landmark birthdays and anniversaries. In the past, some weekly newspapers had “neighborhood news” stories that simply reported things such as who was in town visiting and what was going on in the community.

Most weekly newspapers have one or more advertising sales representatives who sell display ads for the newspaper. The ads are usually from businesses in the newspaper’s geographic coverage area, although some large national and/or regional businesses also advertise in some weekly papers. The majority of the advertising in a weekly newspaper is in the classified-ads section. In addition, a few of the larger weekly newspapers have other sources of revenue such as subscriptions and syndication of their content. The New York Daily News is an example of a newspaper that has multiple revenue streams, including online subscriptions and the sale of its content to other outlets.