Newsday
Newsday is a daily
tabloid-size
newspaper which primarily serves
Long Island and the
New York City borough of
Queens, although it is sold throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. It is among the top ten
United States newspapers in terms of total distribution and readership.
The newspaper's corporate headquarters is located in Melville, New York, on Long Island.
Encyclopedia
Newsday is a daily
tabloid-size
newspaper which primarily serves
Long Island and the
New York City borough of
Queens, although it is sold throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. It is among the top ten
United States newspapers in terms of total distribution and readership.
The newspaper's corporate headquarters is located in Melville, New York, on Long Island.
New York Newsday
A separate edition of the newspaper,
New York Newsday, was established in 1985, folded in 1995, and was shortly afterward revived. While traditional
Newsday is widely read in Queens,
New York Newsdays readership is primarily in New York City's other four boroughs, including Manhattan. Between the two editions, Newsday has readership and distribution in all
five boroughs.
History
Founded by Alicia Patterson, with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the paper was first published on September 3, 1940. After Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim, became publisher and editor, and in 1970, he sold the paper to the
Times-Mirror Corporation, onwer of the
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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, partnering
Newsday with the New York City television station
WPIX , also owned by Tribune.
Newsday is ranked among the top-ten newspapers in circulation in the
United States, although a circulation scandal in 2004 revealed that the paper's circulation had been inflated, with tens of thousands of papers marked as destroyed having been credited.
Editorial style
Despite having a tabloid format,
Newsday is not known for being as sensationalistic as other daily tabloids such as the
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and the
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. Newsday is also well known for its strongly
liberal viewpoints and, as the only major newspaper on Long Island, it often uses its clout to influence local politics in Nassau and
Suffolk counties. The rival newspaper
Long Island Press in 2004 published what it termed a 10-month investigation into Newsdays business and editorial practices, and concluded, "Numerous politicians in both counties, county workers, directors of community groups and other sources claim that Newsday uses its position as Long Island's only daily paper to strong-arm county officials, nonprofit directors, local leaders and rival publications and even to influence pieces of legislation — often through fear, intimidation and other anticompetitive practices — to further its political or commercial agenda"..
Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher. Robert M. Johnson, publisher during the paper's late-1980s effort to break into New York City, hired such prestigious New York newspaper columnists and critics as Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Gail Collins,
Pete Hamill, Sydney Schanberg, Jim Dwyer, sportswriter Mike Lupica, and music critic Tim Page.
Newsday featured
both the advice columnists Ann Landers and
Dear Abby for several years.
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, Tony D'Adamo, and Ned Levine. In the late 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.
Newsday in popular culture
On the 1996-2005
CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, sometimes referred to in the abbreviated form
Raymond, was a pop...
, the fictional character
Ray Barone is employed by
New York Newsday as a sportswriter.
Newsday was also the newspaper at which the lead female character in the
"Crocodile" Dundee movies worked.
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