A daily news is a newspaper that contains current events and information that are of interest to the general public. It can be printed in a variety of formats, including broadsheets, magazines and digital media. In the United States, there are many daily newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Some are national in scope while others are local or regional. Some daily newspapers are also available in a wide variety of languages.
The Yale Daily News is a student-run newspaper published each weekday when the University is in session. It is the oldest college daily in the United States and has a long tradition of alumni going on to prominent careers in journalism and public life, including William F. Buckley, Lan Samantha Chang, Joseph Lieberman, Garry Trudeau and Sam Powers.
In addition to covering the usual array of local, state and national politics, business, sports and entertainment news, the News features opinion pieces by nationally known writers. It also offers a variety of special features, such as “A Day in the Life” profiles of community members and alumni and its award-winning editorial cartoons.
Each day the News publishes articles, photographs and opinion pieces focusing on various aspects of the city’s culture. In addition, it has a large and prominent section for the latest celebrity gossip, as well as a highly popular classified-ads section, comics and a sports section. Larger weeklies, particularly those that are part of chains, also have a lifestyle section featuring theater and arts reviews and restaurants.
Like daily newspapers, weekly papers also have an opinion page and a public-record section. The latter usually contains summaries of police-incident reports and fire-department calls, plus a list of building permits granted within its circulation area. Laws in many states require government agencies to send notices of hearings, advertisements for bids and financial reports, adoption of ordinances and planning applications to the official newspaper of record for a certain geographic region.
A typical weeklies’ family-news section includes announcements of births, engagements and weddings, and milestone birthdays and anniversaries, as well as obituaries. It may also feature previews of games between traditional rivals, or local professional teams if any exist. Most weekly newspapers have one or more advertising sales representatives who sell display ads to local businesses. Some larger weeklies, especially those in urban areas, also have a national advertising department that handles large-scale advertisements. These are often placed in the front sections of the paper, or on the back pages. As with daily newspapers, most weekly publications these days are paginated (or laid out) on a computer using software such as Adobe PageMaker or Adobe InDesign. They are then sent to the printing press either at the paper’s office or a remote publication plant. Printing can take a few minutes to several hours per sheet. Once the copies are complete, they can be burned to a CD-ROM or Zip disk, or sent electronically to the publishing company.