The present-day newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and black and white.

Every Thursday issue a free supplement in a tabloid paper called "Wisdom".

In addition, the Daily News also provides The Sri Lanka Gazette as a supplement on every Friday.

Since its founding, the Daily News has been housed and printed in the historic, colonial-era Lakehouse Building, adjacent to Beira Lake, in the Fort district of Colombo.

During the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, loyalists of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa seized control of the Daily News and ousted journalists who were viewed as supporters of the new regime.