The ''Los Angeles Daily News'' is the second-largest-circulating paid daily

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, after the unrelated ''

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'', and the flagship newspaper of the

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, a branch of Colorado-based

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. The offices of the ''Daily News'' are in Chatsworth, and much of the paper's reporting is targeted toward readers in the

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. Its stories tend to focus on issues involving local San Fernando Valley businesses, education, and crime. The editor currently is Frank Pine.

History

Earlier titles

The ''Daily News'' began publication in

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as the ''Van Nuys Call'' in 1911, morphing into the ''Van Nuys News'' after a merger with a competing newspaper called the ''News''. In 1953, the newspaper was renamed the ''Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet''. The front page was produced on green newsprint. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley. In 1971, the newspaper was sold to the

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by the original family owners. In 1976, to de-emphasize the Van Nuys location, the paper changed its name to the ''Valley News and Green Sheet'', and gradually converted from the four times a week operation to a daily newspaper with paid circulation. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000.

''Los Angeles Daily News''

In 1981, the paper changed its name to the ''Daily News of Los Angeles'' and became a daily publication. In 1985, Tribune bought

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, and due to ownership laws of the time, Tribune sold the paper to Jack Kent Cooke, who spent millions of dollars building state of the art offices and expanding coverage to include the entire

. When the ''

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'' went out of business November 2, 1989, it left the ''Daily News'' the second-biggest paper in the city behind the ''

''. Upon Cooke's death in 1997, William Dean Singleton's MediaNews purchased the newspaper and consolidated it with his other Southern California MediaNews holdings into the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. The group briefly published local editions for the

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, Santa Clarita and

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. However, to cut costs and consolidate resources, the local editions were eliminated. As part of circulation reporting for the

, all papers in LANG are considered editions of the ''Daily News''. The ''Daily News'' endorsed

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for president in 2008, but then endorsed his opponent

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in 2012.

Similarly titled earlier newspapers

The ''Daily News'' bears no relation to an earlier historic ''Los Angeles Daily News'' (1923–1954), a morning newspaper based in

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(originally the ''Illustrated Daily News'') that ceased publication on December 18, 1954. An even earlier newspaper called the ''Los Angeles Daily News'' was printed beginning in 1869 and continuing for a number of years after."Old Relics Unearthed", ''Los Angeles Herald'', February 29, 1896, image 6
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