Joseph Medill Patterson was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the Daily News in New York. At the time of his death the Daily News maintained a Sunday circulation of 4.5 million copies, the largest circulation of any paper in the United States.
Joseph Medill Patterson
Poster for A Little Brother of the Rich (1919), adapted from Patterson's novel and play
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News.
Florence Harding, wife of then President-elect Warren G. Harding, on cover of the Daily News (February 5, 1921, front page)
Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.