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Daily News Record
Daily News Record ture was split from the paper, and given its own publica-
Type Weekly tion that is today Women’s Wear Daily.
In 1993, the parent company of the Daily News
Owner Advance Publications
Record, Fairchild Publications, Inc. was acquired by
Publisher Jay Spaleta Condé Nast Publications after briefly being owned by The
Walt Disney Company (which had acquired when it pur-
Founded 1892
chased Capital Cities Communications).[2]
Ceased publication 2008 The staff was told of DNR’s folding at an afternoon
Circulation 15,804 weekly meeting on Nov. 20, 2008, by editor in chief John Birm-
ingham. Its men’s fashion coverage was absorbed into
Official website dnrnews.com Women’s Wear Daily and is featured every week.
DNR)
Daily News Record (or DNR was an American fashion
trade journal published by Fairchild Publications, Inc.. References
DNR started in 1890 when Edmund Fairchild used the [1] "Fairchild Publications", Fashion Dictionary, 2006,
wealth he had accumulated selling soap to purchase the ed. Baldini Castoldi Dalai, ISBN 88-6073-015
Chicago Herald Gazette, a newspaper which focused on [2] "MEDIA; Conde’s Latest Acquisition Has Fashion
the men’s clothing business.[1] Along with his brother Industry Fidgeting", The New York Times, Aug. 23,
Luis, Fairchild published a mimeographed paper which 1999, by Alex Kuczynski
they called the Daily Trade Record and distributed at
1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
The paper was so successful that the pair decided to External links
continue publication even after the fair finished. It ac- • Daily News Record online
quired its current name some time later, and included a
small feature about women’s wear. In July, 1910, this fea-
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Categories:
• Fashion journalism
• Publications established in 1892
• Condé Nast Publications
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