In 2007 , the '' News '' won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials , published over five months , that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the September 11 attacks had become ill from toxins in the air . The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper " for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers , whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation . " In 2017 , the '' Daily News '' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica " for uncovering , primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley , widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people , most of them poor minorities . " In 1928 , a '' News '' reporter strapped a small camera to his leg , and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair . The next day 's newspaper carried the headline " DEAD ! "
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