The New York Daily News is building on its legacy as “New York’s Hometown Newspaper” to become “New York’s Election Newspaper,” with enhanced coverage tracking the 2025 mayoral candidates on the campaign trail and reaching deep into New York’s neighborhoods as voters face a critical decision.
Starting Thursday and for the next few months, that change will be reflected in a new flag on the News’ front page.
The campaign, a turning point moment, has raised questions about the city’s future amid clashing crises: Affordability, antisemitism, immigration, housing, an epidemic of untreated mental illness. All unfolding against a backdrop of dissent in Washington, deep budget cuts and an aggressive immigration crackdown.
It is a battle that will be fought out in the streets and neighborhoods of the city, demanding the local experience and expertise that the reporters and editors of the New York Daily News are uniquely able to offer.
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal cut back their Metro sections. The Post has its preferred candidates. The Daily News is the newspaper best positioned to provide in-depth and unbiased coverage.
Over the next four months, its readers will see and hear from the candidates in real time. They’ll hear from their fellow New Yorkers as they navigate promises and policies, attacks and responses. Our award-winning opinion department will provide insight and analysis.
The Daily News also plans to offer readers an interactive pipeline to the politicians, using our reach to bring to light the demands and questions of the people the candidates are seeking to represent.
This is an election that is being watched across the nation. Can a democratic socialist candidate succeed in the world’s financial center? Is the Democratic party drifting to the left as the Republican party swings right? Are the fault lines that have long run through American society irreparably broken?
If it matters to New Yorkers, it matters to the Daily News. Our coverage will offer an indispensable service as New Yorkers prepare to make a choice that will have implications for decades to come.
— Andrew Julien, Executive Editor
