Philadelphia Daily News
The front page of the Philadelphia Daily News, November 6, 2025 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper (Monday-Saturday) |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC |
| Editor | Michael Days |
| Managing editor | Pat McLoone |
| News editor | Gar Joseph |
| Photo editor | Michael Mercanti |
| Founded | March 31, 1925 |
| Headquarters | 801 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Circulation | 97,694 |
| Sister newspapers | The Philadelphia Inquirer |
| OCLC number | 12904443 |
| Website | philly |
Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is owned by The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, and is published as an edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Daily News began publishing on March 31, 1925, under founding editor Lee Ellmaker. By 1930, the newspaper's circulation exceeded 200,000, but by the 1950s the news paper was losing money. In 1954, the newspaper was sold to Matthew McCloskey and then sold again in 1957 to publisher Walter Annenberg.
In 1969, Annenberg sold the Daily News to Knight Ridder. In 2006 Knight Ridder sold the paper to a group of local investors, and it later became part of Philadelphia Media Network (PMN) with The Inquirer. PMN was donated to The Philadelphia Foundation in 2016, and the Daily News became an edition of The Inquirer in 2019. The Daily News has won three Pulitzer Prizes.