[2] One of the more prominent journalists who worked on the Daily News was Brooks Atkinson, who took a job with the newspaper after graduating from Harvard College.

He went on to become the assistant drama critic at the Boston Evening Transcript and chief drama critic at The New York Times.

Another prominent journalist, Daniel Golden, who worked at the Daily News from 1978 to 1981,[3] won a Pulitzer Prize as a Wall Street Journal reporter in 2004, and wrote several notable books, including The Price of Admission.

The Morning Union and the Daily News were published as morning and evening editions under their own names, with their own editorial stances, before becoming simply the Union-News in 1988.

In 2001, the newspaper was merged with the Republican entirely, with the Daily News name dropped altogether.