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Newsday is a daily tabloid

Tabloid

A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensationalism crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuend...
-size, Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
-winning, American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
that primarily serves Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
and the New York City

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
borough

Borough (New York City)

New York City is one of the largest cities in the world, and it is segmented into boroughs for various reasons. A borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the History of New York City ....
of Queens

Queens

Queens is the largest in area, the second-largest in population, and the easternmost of the Borough which form the New York City. The Borough of Queens' boundaries are identical to those of the County of Queens , a Administrative divisions of New York#County of the State of New York in the Northeastern United States United States....
, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area. As of fall 2007, Newsdays weekday circulation of 387,000 made it 10th-highest in the United States
Newspapers in the United States

Newspapers have declined in their influence and penetration into American households over the years. The closest thing to a national paper the U.S....
, and the highest for a suburban newspaper.

The newspaper headquarters is in Melville, New York
Melville, New York

Melville is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Hamlet and census-designated place in the Political subdivisions of New York State#Town of Huntington, New York in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, New York, in the United States....
, on Long Island.

ded by Alicia Patterson
Alicia Patterson

Alicia Patterson was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful post-war newspapers in the 1940s.The daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago, Patterson found her calling late in life when he...
, with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the paper was first published on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead.

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Newsday is a daily tabloid
Tabloid

A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensationalism crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuend...
-size, Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
-winning, American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
that primarily serves Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
and the New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
borough
Borough (New York City)

New York City is one of the largest cities in the world, and it is segmented into boroughs for various reasons. A borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the History of New York City ....
of Queens
Queens

Queens is the largest in area, the second-largest in population, and the easternmost of the Borough which form the New York City. The Borough of Queens' boundaries are identical to those of the County of Queens , a Administrative divisions of New York#County of the State of New York in the Northeastern United States United States....
, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area. As of fall 2007, Newsdays weekday circulation of 387,000 made it 10th-highest in the United States
Newspapers in the United States

Newspapers have declined in their influence and penetration into American households over the years. The closest thing to a national paper the U.S....
, and the highest for a suburban newspaper.

The newspaper headquarters is in Melville, New York
Melville, New York

Melville is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Hamlet and census-designated place in the Political subdivisions of New York State#Town of Huntington, New York in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, New York, in the United States....
, on Long Island.

History
Founded by Alicia Patterson
Alicia Patterson

Alicia Patterson was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful post-war newspapers in the 1940s.The daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago, Patterson found her calling late in life when he...
, with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the paper was first published on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. After Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim became publisher and editor, and in 1971, he sold the paper to the Times Mirror Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
. Newsday launched a separate Queens edition in 1977, followed by a New York City edition. In June 2000, Times Mirror merged with the Tribune Company
Tribune Company

The Tribune Company is a large United States multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the The Morning Call, among others....
, partnering Newsday with the New York City television station WPIX
WPIX

WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City. It has been owned by the Tribune Company since its inception, and serves as the flagship station of the The CW Television Network....
(Channel 11), also owned by Tribune. Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
, real estate
Real estate

Real estate is a law term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location. magnate Samuel Zell
Samuel Zell

Samuel "Sam" Zell is a U.S.-born billionaire and real estate entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Chairperson of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm....
purchased Tribune in 2007.

News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
, headed by CEO Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
, attempted to purchase Newsday for $580 million in April 2008. This was soon followed by a matching bid from New York Daily News
New York Daily News

The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....
owner Mort Zuckerman and a $680 million bid from Cablevision. In May 2008, News Corporation withdrew its bid, and on May 12, 2008, Newsday reported that Cablevision would purchase the paper for $650 million. The sale was completed July 29, 2008.

New York Newsday
A separate edition of the newspaper, New York Newsday, was established in 1985 and discontinued in 1995, though Newsday continues to be distributed in New York City.

Editorial style
Despite having a tabloid format, Newsday is not known for being sensationalistic, as are other local daily tabloids, such as the New York Daily News
New York Daily News

The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703,137, as of March 30, 2008....
and the New York Post
New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually as a daily, although -- like most other papers -- its publication has been interrupted by labor actions....
.

In 2004, the alternative weekly newspaper, Long Island Press
Long Island Press

The Long Island Press is a free alternative newsweekly serving Long Island with extensive coverage of arts and entertainment, sports, and alternative political viewpoints....
wrote that Newsday has used its clout to influence local politics in Nassau
Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban Political subdivisions of New York State#County in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S....
and Suffolk
Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a Political subdivisions of New York State#County located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island....
Counties.

Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is an United States journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965-67....
briefly served as publisher. During the tenure of publisher Robert M. Johnson
Robert M. Johnson

Robert M. Johnson , former publisher of Newsday, is now better-known as one of the most prominent men so far accused of child pornography offenses....
in the 1980s, Newsday made a major push into New York City. The paper's roster of newspaper columnists and critics included Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States columnist and author. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City....
, Barbara Garson
Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson is an American playwright, author and social activist.Garson is best known for the play MacBird, a notorious 1966 counterculture drama/political parody of MacBeth that sold over half a million copies as a book and had over 90 productions world wide....
, Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton

James Murray Kempton was an influential United States journalist....
, Gail Collins
Gail Collins (journalist)

Gail Collins was the Leftist Editorial page Managing editor of The New York Times from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first female Editorial Page Editor at the Times....
, Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill is a prominent United States journalist, columnist, novelist, and short story writer....
, Sydney Schanberg
Sydney Schanberg

Sydney Hillel Schanberg is an United States journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.Schanberg joined The New York Times as a journalist in 1959....
, Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer

----Jim Dwyer is an United States journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times....
, sportswriter Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica

Michael Lupica is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on both sports and political issues in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN....
, music critic Tim Page
Tim Page (music critic)

Tim Page is a writer, editor, producer and professor. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the Washington Post and also played an essential role in the revival of American author Dawn Powell....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
critic Marvin Kitman. Newsday featured both the advice column
Advice column

An advice column is a column at a magazine or newspaper written by an advice columnist . The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt"....
ists Ann Landers
Ann Landers

Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer and Ruth Crowley were the main writers behind the public image of advice columnist Ann Landers and the print syndication advice column, of the same name....
and Dear Abby
Dear Abby

Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name....
for several years. Its features section has included television reporter
Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
s Verne Gay and Diane Werts, reality TV columnist Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece

Frank Lovece is an United States journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer. He was additionally one of the first professional Internet journalists, becoming an editor of a Silicon Alley start-up in 1996....
, and film critics John Anderson, Rafer Guzman, Gene Seymour, and Jan Stuart.

Newsday's use of graphics has sometimes attracted national attention, particularly of the circa-1970 work of such longtime in-house illustrators as Gary Viskupic
Gary Viskupic

Gary Viskupic is an American artist, best known as a former Chief Illustrator for the Long Island, New York based newspaper Newsday. Now retired, his freelance work included cover art for many Doubleday Book Club editions, various magazines, and the illustrations for the American versions of the Doctor Who Target novelizations....
, Tony D'Adamo, and Ned Levine. Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
winner Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Walt Handelsman is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001....
's editorial political cartoons animation are a nationally syndicated feature of Newsday. In the 1980s, a new design director, Robert Eisner, guided the transition into digital design and color printing.

Newsday created and sponsored a "Long Island at the Crossroads" advisory board in 1978, to recommend regional goals, supervise local government, and to liaison with state and Federal officials. It lasted approximately a decade.

Circulation
In 2008, Newsday was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

A circulation scandal in 2004 revealed that the paper's daily and Sunday circulation had been inflated by 16.9% and 14.5%, respectively, in the auditing period September 30, 2002 to September 30, 2003. The Audit Bureau of Circulation adjusted average weekday circulation to 481,816 from 579,599; average Saturday circulation to 392,649 from 416,830; and average Sunday circulation to 574,081 from 671,820, and instituted twice-yearly audits.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize
As of 2008, Newsday has won 19 Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
s and has been a finalist for 18 additional: If no individual is listed, award is for Newsday staff.

2008: Public Service (Finalist) — Jennifer Barrios, Sophia Chang, Michael R. Ebert, Reid J. Epstein, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Eden Laikin, Herbert Lowe, Joseph Mallia, Jennifer Maloney, Luis Perez and Karla Schuster
2007: Editorial Cartooning (Winner) — Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Walt Handelsman is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001....
2005: International Reporting (Winner) — Dele Olojede
Dele Olojede

Dele Olojede is a Nigerian Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former foreign editor for Newsday. Olojede was the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize....
2005: Explanatory Reporting (Finalist)
2004: Breaking News Reporting (Finalist)
2002: Criticism (Winner) — Justin Davidson
Justin davidson

Justin Davidson is a classical music and architecture critic. He began his journalism career as a local stringer for the Associated Press in Rome before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard....
1999: Criticism (Finalist) — Justin Davidson
1999: Editorial Writing (Finalist) — Lawrence C. Levy
1998: Beat Reporting (Finalist) — Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and writer of two bestselling books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola outbreak in Zaire....
1997: Spot News Reporting (Winner)
1996: Explanatory Journalism (Winner) — Laurie Garrett
1996: Beat Reporting (Winner) — Bob Keeler
1996: International Reporting (Finalist) — Laurie Garrett
1995: Investigative Reporting (Winner) — Brian Donovan and Stephanie Saul
1995: Commentary (Winner) — Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer

----Jim Dwyer is an United States journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times....
1994: Explanatory Journalism (Finalist)
1993: International Reporting (Winner) — Roy Gutman
Roy Gutman

Roy Gutman is an American journalist and author.Gutman graduated from Haverford College, in 1966, majoring in History, and from London School of Economics in 1968 with a masters degree in International Relations....
1992: Spot News Reporting (Winner)
1992: International Reporting (Winner) — Patrick J. Sloyan
1991: Spot News Reporting (Finalist)
1991: Spot News Photography (Finalist)
1990: Specialized Reporting (Finalist) — Jim Dwyer
1989: Investigative Reporting (Finalist) — Penny Loeb
1986: Feature Writing (Finalist) — Irene Virag
1985: International Reporting (Winner) — Josh Friedman, Dennis Bell
Dennis Bell

Dennis Bell may refer to:* Dennis Bell , Buffalo Soldier of the Spanish-American War* Dennis Bell * Dennis Bell , jazz musician* Dennis Bell , reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner...
, and Ozier Muhammad
Ozier Muhammad

Ozier Muhammad is a photojournalist who as of 2008 is on the staff of The New York Times.In 1984, Muhammad won the George Polk Award for News Photography....
1985: Commentary (Winner) — Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton

James Murray Kempton was an influential United States journalist....
1984: Local General or Spot News Reporting (Winner)
1984: International Reporting (Finalist) — Morris Thompson
1984: Criticism (Finalist) — Dan Cryer
1982: International Reporting (Finalist) — Bob Wyrick
1982: Criticism (Finalist) — Marvin Kitman
1980: Local Investigative Specialized Reporting (Finalist) — Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston Jr. and Frederick J. Tuccillo
1974: Public Service (Winner)
1974: Criticism (Winner) — Emily Genauer, Newsday Syndicate
1970: Public Service (Winner)
1970: Editorial Cartooning (Winner) — Thomas F. Darcy
1954: Public Service (Winner)

In popular culture

On the 1996-2005 CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
, the fictional character Ray Barone (played by Ray Romano
Ray Romano

Raymond Albert "Ray" Romano is an United States actor, writer and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in the long running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond....
) is employed by Newsday as a sportswriter.
The lead female character in the "Crocodile" Dundee
Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee is a Australian films of the 1980s Cinema of Australia comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Michael "Crocodile" Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton....
movies worked at Newsday.
The episode "The Homer They Fall
The Homer They Fall

"The Homer They Fall" is the third episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons and originally aired November 10, 1996. After discovering he can not be knocked down, Homer becomes a boxer....
" in season eight of The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
quotes Newsday in referencing boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
as "The cruelest sport".

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