A daily news report is an account of current events written by a journalist. The subject matters vary but usually include government, politics, crime, business, education, fashion, health, sports, and the environment as well as quirky or unusual events. The news is a form of public information and can influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, and decisions. News reports should contain the “Five Ws”—who, what, where, when, and why—and provide context for the story. News stories are normally placed in a newspaper or broadcast in a format where the most important information is presented first, allowing busy readers to skip what they don’t need.

The New York Daily News, founded in 1919, was the first tabloid newspaper published in the United States. At its peak circulation in 1947 it had 2.4 million copies a day. The paper was a staunch advocate of conservative populism. In the 1990s, however, it began to shift its stance, and today’s Daily News is moderately liberal. The paper was based in the landmark art deco Daily News Building designed by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, which was used as a model for the Daily Planet building in the first two Superman movies.

While reporters in the movies are depicted as living by the adage, “Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable,” in reality, most of their work is routine. Some reporters are assigned to a specific beat, such as courts, city hall, education, business or medicine. Others are general assignment reporters, on call to cover a wide variety of stories such as accidents, civic events and human-interest stories.