The New York Daily News (first published June 26, 1919), « soon attained a circulation of nearly one million, the largest among American tabloids», because of its sensationalism, and it’s considered the first modern tabloid due to its famous front cover of “Dead!” (January 13, 1928). 4-5), but the first tabloid with success was the Daily Mirror (1903), founded by Lord Northcliffe. Mario García wrote: «The first tabloid newspaper in the United States was The Daily Graphic (1873-1889)», (2005, pág. This is an atypical cover, both the image and the outcome. It wasn’t the headline which started a story but which ended it. And how! Joseph Medill Patterson was the co-editor of the Chicago Tribune along with his cousin, Robert R. McCormick, but they did not fully agree on the editorial of the daily, so Patterson handed over the daily control to Colonel McCormick and he moved to New York to found the New York Illustrated Daily News (June 26 1919), following the advices of Lord Northcliffe, who he met during a trip to London. « For sure it’s a great photo to catch people attention, because everyone look at this newspaper and inside them head would born a thought ‘Why women? Why on the electric chair?’’ It’s normal curious of people, which leads to buy (in this case) newspaper to read about it», says Eliza Tymczuk. ¿What did this woman do to be in the electric chair? So maybe now you are shocked about the image of this front page of 1928. Had you ever seen a woman on the electric chair? Neither do I: not on films, never on the magazines… cos you are used to see men in that tragic situation. You can appreciate on the right the autopsy table to which her body was going to be transferred. The newspaper titled "Dead!" with 172-points size font above the photo of Ruth Snyder on the electric chair. Front page of the New York Daily News (January 13 1928), regarded as the initiation of the tabloids.
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