Brooklyn has several local newspapers: The
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
Bay Currents (Oceanfront Brooklyn),
Brooklyn View,
The Brooklyn Paper, and Courier-Life Publications. Courier-Life Publications, owned by Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation, is Brooklyn's largest chain of newspapers. Brooklyn is also served by the major New York dailies, including
The New York Times, the
New York Daily News, and the
New York Post. Several others are now defunct, including the
Brooklyn Union (1867–1937), and the
Brooklyn Times.