Newsday
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 The 2005-12-07 front page of Newsday |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Tribune Company |
| Publisher | Tim Knight[1] |
| Editor | John Mancini[1] |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Headquarters | 235 Pinelawn Road Melville, NY 11747  United States |
| Circulation | 427,771 Daily 488,825 Sunday[2] |
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| Website: Newsday.com | |
Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area. It is among the top 20 United States newspapers in terms of total distribution and readership.[3]
The newspaper headquarters is in Melville, New York, on Long Island.
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[edit] New York Newsday
A separate edition of the newspaper, New York Newsday, was established in 1985, and mostly shut down in 1995, but continued with reduced staff and circulation areas. While traditional Newsday is widely read in Queens, New York Newsday's 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.
[edit] 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 Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times. 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 (Channel 11), also owned by Tribune.
Newsday is ranked 17th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States[3], 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.
[edit] 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 and the New York Post.[4] [5] Newsday often uses its clout to influence local politics in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.[6]
Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher.[7] 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 star newspaper columnists and critics included Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Gail Collins, Pete Hamill, Sydney Schanberg, Jim Dwyer, sportswriter Mike Lupica, music critic Tim Page, and television critic Marvin Kitman. Newsday featured both the advice columnists Ann Landers and Dear Abby for several years. Its features section has included television reporters Verne Gay and Diane Werts, and reality TV columnist Frank Lovece.
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 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.[8] [9] [10] It lasted approximately a decade.
[edit] Newsday in popular culture
On the 1996-2005 CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, the fictional character Ray Barone (played by Ray Romano) 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.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b About Us: Executive Bios. Newsday Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
- ^ 2006 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2006-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
- ^ a b Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation. Audit Bureau of Circulations (2006-09-30). Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
- ^ Stevens, John D., Sensationalism and the New York Press (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991) ISBN 0-231-07396-8
- ^ Hamill, Pete, News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998) ISBN 0-345-42528-6
- ^ The rival newspaper Long Island Press on Dec. 30, 2004 published what it termed a 10-month investigation into Newsday 's business and editorial practices, "Game Over: How the Paper's Monopoly Control Has Warped its Coverage and Hurt Long Island", by Christopher Twarowski, 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".
- ^ The Museum of Broadcast Communications: Moyer biography
- ^ Newsday (April 19, 1988): "A Decade Later, Still at Crossroads", by Tom Morris
- ^ Newsday (Dec. 13, 1988): "L.I. Planners Need Cooperation, Not Competition" (editorial)
- ^ Newsday (Feb. 4, 1991): "Back to the Future", by Greg Steinmetz
