New York Daily Mirror

The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published in 1924 in New York City by the William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets, the Evening Journal and New York American, later consolidated into the "New York Journal American". It was created to compete with the New York Daily News which was then a sensationalist style tabloid and the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States. Hearst preferred the broadsheet format and sold the Mirror in 1928, only to buy it back in 1932.

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American - Tabloid newspaper - 1924 - New York City - William Randolph Hearst - Broadsheet - New York Journal American - New York Daily News

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Early on, several bright young writers and photographic journalists joined the Daily Mirror such as Ring Lardner, Jr. and Hy Peskin. In 1927, the paper devoted substantial resources to the exploitation of scandal with repeated stories on such things as the divorce trial of real estate tycoon Edward West "Daddy" Browning who at age 51 had married 15-year-old Frances Belle "Peaches" Heenan. Management of the Mirror estimated that its content was 10% news and 90% entertainment.

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Ring Lardner, Jr. - Hy Peskin - Scandal - Divorce - Tycoon - Frances Belle "Peaches" Heenan

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By the 1930s, the Daily Mirror was one of the Hearst Corporation's largest papers in terms of circulation. However, the paper never became a significantly profitable property and in its later years it declined substantially despite numerous efforts to turn things around including the hiring of popular columnist Walter Winchell from a competitor.

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Hearst Corporation's - Walter Winchell

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Despite having the second highest daily circulation of an American newspaper, The Daily Mirror closed on October 16, 1963, after a lengthy strike.

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October 16 - 1963

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