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-size newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

History

''The Washington Daily News'' was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The newspaper was born on November 8, 1921, and competed with four established local daily newspapers, the ''

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'', the ''

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'' (not to be confused with the current ''Washington Times''), the ''

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'', and the ''

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'' (''The Evening Star''). The newspaper's masthead had "The News" printed in large, bold letters, with "Washington Daily" printed in small letters between them, over a rendering of the U.S. Capitol dome. One of its last stories was a leak, likely by the " Deep Throat" whistleblower

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, that E. Howard Hunt's safe contained a map of the Watergate complex. However, the newspaper closed before the

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received national attention and Felt delivered the rest of his information to the rival ''Washington Post''. On July 12, 1972, "certain assets" of ''The Washington Daily News'' were purchased by and merged with the competing'' Washington Star''. The newspaper was soon renamed the ''Washington Star News''. By the late 1970s the word "News" completely disappeared from the title. During the 1960s and early 1970s, their offices were located across the street from DCFD Engine Company 16, which was the odd side of the 1000 block of 13th St. Northwest.

Personalities

''The Washington Daily News'' was the home newspaper for

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, the famed war correspondent. People who gained recognition while working at the ''Daily News'' include

Judy Mann Judy Mann (December 24, 1943 in Washington, D.C. – July 8, 2005) was a correspondent for ''The Washington Post'' where she wrote about women, children, and the politics of the women's movement. Biography Mann spent her childhood in Paris and wa ...

, who was part of an early Vietnam War protest sit-in at

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. Others who gained recognition from the ''News'' included Bill Beall, who won a Pulitzer for " Faith and Confidence", a photo of a child and a police officer;Fischer, Heinz Dietrich. ''The Pulitzer Prize Archive: A History and Anthology of Award-winning Materials in Journalism, Letters and Arts''
Google Books. Retrieved 2012-07-28 and Samuel A. Stafford - Heywood Broun Award winner (and Pulitzer runner-up for investigative reporting) famous for stories that unmasked the Surplus Food program abuses which led to the modern SNAP and WIC programs; horse racing analyst Andrew Beyer, and

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(IAPA) President as well as Columbia University Maria Moors Cabot gold medal Winner John Thomas O'Rourke. The paper was the favored newspaper of the majority

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population in Washington D.C. at a time when this market for newspapers was secondary. When it finally closed its doors in 1972, the huge letters outside the printing presses and offices were removed and given to the reporters and others as keepsakes, some of which were turned into coffee tables.

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