< Previous70 | The Daily News | Celebrating 175 Years Before photos were printed in the paper, text was used to guide a reader through the stories on the page as seen in this edition of The Galveston Daily News from Sept. 12, 1900. DAILY NEWS FILE Celebrating 175 Years | The Daily News | 71Yet, newly hired editors and reporters brought new ideas: a review, perhaps, of a show everyone was talking about, and what about clubs’ business and who among the city’s who’s who appeared at what event?An important advance in newspapers’ notion of news came with the hiring of women as reporters, many of whom first were assigned to write about social events and then — more daringly — about gossip they gleaned.Eventually, astute editors realized that women could report on anything men could, although many male reporters initially scoffed at such a notion.Yet, they came around; today, most newsrooms are equally staffed by men and women.AN EXTENDED RANGEOver the years, what began as The Daily News became The Galveston News, which became The Galveston Daily News and is today The Galveston County Daily News, a name reflecting the expanded — yet ultimately local — emphasis of its coverage.Now, with state, national and global news only a mouse click away, virtually all newspapers — that is, all but the remaining few staffing national and international bureaus; in other words, the very few — focus their coverage on where their readers reside, covering city councils and school boards and other public bodies — and more.In addition to also covering social events and club happenings, The Daily News — it was one of the first newspapers to review books and music and to report on commerce and sports and on scientific and medical advancements — continues to bring its readers reportage reflecting the complexities and extent of modern life.EVOLUTION OF DESIGNAs coverage evolved, so, too, did newspaper design, how that broader content is displayed.For the first few decades of The Daily News’ existence, the only visual elements on its pages were typographical: Headlines of varying size and emphasis distinguished major stories from their lesser cousins, but the paper remained image free.By the 1870s, however, illustrations were in vogue, at first in the service of advertisements — front-page promotions with images of their respective labeled containers appeared for Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder and for Royal Baking Powder, those rivals locked in dogged competition for primacy in the pantry — and then for more prosaic purposes, including a drawing of cattle and corn and wind-riffled wheat for a Jan. 1, 1900, Special Edition highlighting “The Resources of Texas.”Other illustrations, produced by a perfected process known as photoengraving, appeared.Photographs first appeared in The Daily News during the first decade of the past century, typically facial images of newsmakers.The edition above from Oct. 25, 1929, and the edition on the right from Nov. 23, 1963, show the difference in use of images in newspaper design. DAILY NEWS FILE72 | The Daily News | Celebrating 175 Years THE DAILY NEWS WAS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE STATE TO HIRE A STABLE OF WRITERS TO AGGRESSIVELY SEEK OUT AND REPORT THE GOINGS-ON WITHIN THE PAPER’S BROAD CIRCULATION AREA, WHICH AT ONE POINT ENCOMPASSED MUCH OF THE STATE. Celebrating 175 Years | The Daily News | 73By 1930, photographs, often received by wire, appeared on a regular basis, bearing images of events beyond most readers’ scope and travel, from war zones to sporting events to glittering high society.LAYOUT CHANGED, AS WELLThe front page of The Daily News in the mid-1980s reflected a key design change — so-called modular layout, prevalent today throughout the industry, which ended the practice of allowing a column of type for one story to wrap around another.With modular design, each story occupied its own, typically rectangular, space, and, if needed, continued — “jumped,” in newspaper jargon — to a subsequent page.The innovation gave readers a clearer, more-intuitive sense of individual stories’ relative importance.A SWITCH IN FOCUSYet, throughout most of the past century, readers of The Daily News still were more likely to find stories from elsewhere on the front page than they were from their hometowns.That largely changed in the late 1970s when the newspaper made a concerted effort to feature on its front page predominantly local news.State and national and global news — unless of great import — was relegated to inside pages.Newspaper editors and publishers have come to realize that readers seeking news about the institutions and people in the area in which they live can best, in most cases, only, find it in their hometown newspaper, a reality unlikely to change anytime soon.(LEFT) This edition from Sept. 23, 2003, utilizes white space in a modern way. (ABOVE AND RIGHT) The edition above from July 21, 1969, and the edition on the right from July 20, 2009, show the paper’s coverage of the lunar landing and of its 40th anniversary. While both designs are modular, the latter shows more freedom with design, such as the inverse text, available because of advancements in printing technology. DAILY NEWS FILE74 | The Daily News | Celebrating 175 Years ADVERTISER INDEXA B Sign Shop .......................................................31Affordable Air & Heat .............................................60Allstate Insurance — The O’Donohoe Agency ........35Barney Rapp Incorporated Realtors ........................60Bosworth Air Conditioning & Heating Inc. ...............69City of Galveston .....................................................3City of League City ................................................11City of Texas City ...................................................57Classic Auto Group ................................................23Clear Lake Movers ................................................33College of the Mainland .........................................69Crowder Funeral Home .........................................69David Bowers ........................................................47Dow Chemical Co. .................................................61Farmers Insurance — Mark Spurgeon ..................56First Presbyterian Church ......................................57Galveston Art League Gallery .................................56Galveston College..................................................25Galveston Economic Development Partnership .........5Galveston Insurance Associates .............................51Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery .......................68Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce ...........23Georgetown Mortgage ...........................................43Hayes Funeral Home .............................................43JSC Federal Credit Union .......................................57Joe Tramonte Realty ..............................................35Law Offices of Susan M. Edmonson ......................61League City Regional Chamber of Commerce ........61Lighthouse Harbor Realty ......................................69MH&T Advertising .................................................69Mainland Tool ........................................................60Publication Printers Corp. ........INSIDE BACK COVERRobinson’s Auto Repair..........................................61SLC Investment Services .......................................69Sand ‘N Sea Properties .........................................56Secure Mortgage Co. ............................................68Sidney Tregre ........................................................68Stewart Title Co. ....................................................33Submit Your Assignments ......................................68Sue Johnson .........................................................51Susan Cahill ..........................................................41Texas City-La Marque Chamber of Commerce .......27Texas First Bank ....................INSIDE FRONT COVERThe Grand 1894 Opera House ..............................60The House Company .............................................27The Meridian Retirement Community .....................56The Power House Electric Co. ................................69Tom Schwenk .......................................................57United Way-Galveston County Mainland .................69University of Houston-Clear Lake ...........................47University of Texas Medical Branch ........................25Joseph Hurst adds a new roll of newsprint to The Daily News’ press. 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