American daily newspaper founded in 1940
This article is about the Long Island newspaper. For the offshoot New York daily (1985?1995), see
New York Newsday
.
Newsday
is a daily
newspaper
in the United States primarily serving
Nassau
and
Suffolk
counties on
Long Island
, although it is also sold throughout the
New York metropolitan area
. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper".
[3]
The newspaper's headquarters are located in
Melville, New York
.
Since its founding in 1940,
Newsday
has won 19
Pulitzer Prizes
.
[4]
By January 2014,
Newsday
'
s total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays.
[5]
As of 2019, the newspaper's weekday circulation of 250,000 was the
eighth-largest in the nation
, and the highest among suburban newspapers.
[6]
In June 2022, the newspaper had an average print circulation of 97,182.
[7]
History
[
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]
20th century
[
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]
Founded by
Alicia Patterson
and her husband,
Harry Guggenheim
, the first edition of
Newsday
was September 3, 1940, published from
Hempstead
.
[8]
Until undergoing a major redesign in the 1970s,
Newsday
copied the
Daily News
format of short stories and numerous pictures. Patterson was fired as a writer at her father's
Daily News
in her early 20s, after getting the basic facts of a divorce wrong in a published report. Following Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim became publisher and editor.
In 1967, Guggenheim turned over the publisher position to
Bill Moyers
and continued as president and editor-in-chief. But Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing what he called the "left-wing" coverage of the anti-
Vietnam War
protests.
[9]
[10]
The two ultimately split over the
1968 presidential election
, with Guggenheim authoring an editorial supporting
Richard Nixon
when Moyers supported
Hubert Humphrey
.
[11]
Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative
Times-Mirror Company
over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later.
[9]
[12]
[13]
Guggenheim, who died a year later, had Moyers removed from his will.
[14]
After the competing
Long Island Press
(not to be confused with the alternative weekly of the same name) ceased publication in 1977,
Newsday
launched a separate
Queens
edition, followed by a New York City edition dubbed
New York Newsday
. In June 2000, Times Mirror merged with the
Tribune Company
, partnering
Newsday
with the New York City television station
WPIX
, also owned by Tribune.
With the Times Mirror-Tribune merger, the newspaper founded by
Alicia Patterson
was now owned by the company that was founded by her great-grandfather,
Joseph Medill
, who owned the
Chicago Tribune
and, until 1991, also owned her father's
Daily News
. Tribune sold the
Daily News
to British newspaper magnate
Robert Maxwell
.
Following Maxwell's death in 1992, Medill's publishing empire collapsed, and
Mortimer Zuckerman
purchased the
Daily News
, and
Chicago
real estate magnate
Samuel Zell
purchased the
Tribune
in 2007.
[15]
21st century
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]
In April 2008,
News Corporation
, headed by CEO
Rupert Murdoch
, attempted to purchase
Newsday
for US$580 million.
[16]
This was followed by a matching bid from Zuckerman
[17]
and a $680 million bid from
Cablevision
.
[18]
In May 2008, News Corporation withdrew its bid,
[19]
and on May 12, 2008,
Newsday
reported that Cablevision would purchase the paper for $650 million.
[20]
The sale was completed July 29, 2008.
[21]
In 2016,
Altice
, a
Netherlands
-based multinational telecommunications company, acquired Cablevision, including
Newsday
and News 12.
[22]
[23]
However, Altice then sold a majority (75%) stake in
Newsday
back to Cablevision's former owner
Charles Dolan
and his son Patrick, making Patrick the CEO of
Newsday
.
[24]
[25]
Altice disposed of its remaining stake in
Newsday
at the end of July 2018, which, combined with Charles Dolan's transfer of shares to son Patrick, made Patrick the sole owner of
Newsday
.
[26]
In July 2020,
Newsday
received $10 million in
federal government
loans from
Paycheck Protection Program
during the
COVID-19 pandemic
to pay salaries for 500 employees.
[27]
In 2022, Don Hudson was named editor.
[28]
In March 2023,
Newsday
launched NewsdayTV, featuring former
News 12 Networks
anchor Elisa DiStefano. NewsdayTV is available online and through major streaming outlets. NewsdayTV takes a similar approach to news as other Long Island news outlets such as News12.
Editorial style
[
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]
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
and the
New York Post
.
[29]
[30]
This causes Newsday to sometimes be referred to as "the respectable tabloid".
[31]
In 2004, the alternative weekly newspaper
Long Island Press
(which is not related to the defunct daily of the same name) wrote that
Newsday
has used its clout to influence local politics in
Nassau
and
Suffolk
Counties.
[32]
Bill Moyers
briefly served as publisher.
[33]
During the tenure of publisher
Robert M. Johnson
in the 1980s, Newsday made a major push into New York City. The paper's roster of columnists and critics has included
Cathy Young
,
Jimmy Breslin
,
Barbara Garson
,
Normand Poirier
,
Murray Kempton
,
Gail Collins
,
Pete Hamill
,
Sydney Schanberg
,
Robert Reno
(died 2012),
Jim Dwyer
, sportswriter
Mike Lupica
, music critic
Tim Page
, and television critic
Marvin Kitman
. The paper featured both
advice columnists
Ann Landers
and
Dear Abby
for several years.
From 1985 to 2005, Michael Mandelbaum wrote a regular foreign affairs analysis column for
Newsday
. Writer and biographer
Robert Caro
was an investigative reporter. Its features section has included television reporters Verne Gay and Diane Werts, TV/film feature writer
Frank Lovece
, and film critic Rafer Guzman.
Newsday
carries the syndicated columnist
Froma Harrop
.
Pulitzer Prize
winner
Walt Handelsman
'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.
[
citation needed
]
Newsday
created and sponsored a "Long Island at the Crossroads" advisory board in 1978, to recommend regional goals, supervise local government, and liaison with state and Federal officials.
[34]
[35]
[36]
It lasted approximately a decade.
On March 21, 2011,
Newsday
redesigned its front page, scrapping the
nameplate
and font used since the 1960s in favor of a sans-serif wordmark.
[37]
Circulation
[
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]
In 2004, a circulation scandal 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.
[38]
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.
[38]
In 2008,
Newsday
was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States.
[15]
On October 28, 2009,
Newsday
changed its web site to a
paid-subscriber only model
. Newsday.com would open its front page, classified ads, movie listings, and school closings to all site visitors, but access beyond this content would require a weekly fee ? US$5 as of 2010. This fee would be waived for subscribers of the print edition of the paper, as well as for subscribers to parent-company Cablevision's Internet service.
[39]
Through its first three months only 35 non-Optimum, non-
Newsday
subscribers signed up for the paid website.
[40]
Pulitzer Prizes
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]
Newsday
has won 19
Pulitzer Prizes
and has been a finalist for 20 additional (if no individual is listed, award is for
Newsday
staff):
[41]
- 1954: Public Service
(Winner)
- 1970: Public Service
(Winner)
- 1970: Editorial Cartooning
(Winner)
?
Thomas F. Darcy
- 1974: Public Service
(Winner)
- 1974: Criticism
(Winner)
?
Emily Genauer
, Newsday Syndicate
- 1980: Local Investigative Specialized Reporting (Finalist) ? Carole E. Agus, Andrew V. Fetherston Jr., and Frederick J. Tuccillo
- 1982: International Reporting (Finalist) ? Bob Wyrick
- 1982: Criticism (Finalist) ?
Marvin Kitman
- 1984: Local General or Spot News Reporting
(Winner)
- 1984: International Reporting (Finalist) ? Morris Thompson
- 1984: Criticism (Finalist) ? Dan Cryer
- 1985: International Reporting
(Winner)
? Josh Friedman,
Dennis Bell
, and
Ozier Muhammad
- 1985: Commentary
(Winner)
?
Murray Kempton
- 1986: Feature Writing (Finalist) ? Irene Virag
- 1989: Investigative Reporting (Finalist) ? Penny Loeb
- 1990: Specialized Reporting (Finalist) ?
Jim Dwyer
- 1991: Spot News Reporting (Finalist)
- 1991: Spot News Photography (Finalist)
- 1992: Spot News Reporting
(Winner)
- 1992: International Reporting
(Winner)
?
Patrick J. Sloyan
- 1993: International Reporting
(Winner)
?
Roy Gutman
- 1994: Explanatory Journalism (Finalist)
- 1995: Investigative Reporting
(Winner)
?
Brian Donovan
and
Stephanie Saul
- 1995: Commentary
(Winner)
?
Jim Dwyer
- 1996: Explanatory Journalism
(Winner)
? Laurie Garrett
- 1996: Beat Reporting
(Winner)
? Bob Keeler
- 1996: International Reporting (Finalist) ? Laurie Garrett
- 1997: Spot News Reporting
(Winner)
- 1998: Beat Reporting (Finalist) ?
Laurie Garrett
- 1999: Criticism (Finalist) ? Justin Davidson
- 1999: Editorial Writing (Finalist) ?
Lawrence C. Levy
- 2002: Criticism
(Winner)
?
Justin Davidson
- 2004: Breaking News Reporting (Finalist)
- 2005: International Reporting
(Winner)
?
Dele Olojede
- 2005: Explanatory Reporting (Finalist)
- 2007: Editorial Cartooning
(Winner)
?
Walt Handelsman
- 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
- 2013: Editorial Writing (Finalist) ? Editorial Board staff
- 2014: Public Service (Finalist)
In popular culture
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]
- 1969
: The novel
Naked Came the Stranger
is written as a literary hoax poking fun at contemporary American culture. Although credited to "Penelope Ashe", it was in fact written by a group of 24 journalists led by
Newsday
columnist
Mike McGrady
, who intended to author a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity.
- 1985
: In the comedy/thriller
Compromising Positions
, the lead character, played by
Susan Sarandon
, is a former
Newsday
journalist who is trying reestablish her career by selling a freelance story to the publication.
- 1986
: In the
Crocodile Dundee
films,
Linda Kozlowski
's character, reporter Sue Charlton, works at
Newsday
.
- 1996
: The episode "
The Homer They Fall
" in season eight of
The Simpsons
quotes
Newsday
calling
boxing
"the cruelest sport".
- 1996 to 2005
: In the
CBS
sitcom
Everybody Loves Raymond
, the fictional character
Ray Barone
played by
Ray Romano
is employed by
Newsday
as a sportswriter.
- 2016
: In the documentary
Three Identical Strangers
, former editor Howard Schneider discusses
Newsday
's coverage of three young men who discovered they were separated as infants.
[42]
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]
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.
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b
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.
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.
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b
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.
- ^
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- ^
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- ^
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.
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.
- ^
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.
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- ^
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- ^
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.
- ^
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- ^
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- ^
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- ^
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Newsday
search results
- ^
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.
Newsday
. Retrieved
March 16,
2019
.
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