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 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.

Ownership

Founded by Alicia Patterson, with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the paper was first published on September 3, 1940. Headquartered in Melville, New York, Newsday, by the 2000s, became owned by the Tribune Company. It had previously been owned by the Los Angeles Times. It is usually ranked among the top ten newspapers in circulation in the United States, although in 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.

"Newsday" is a partner with the New York City television station WPIX (Channel 11), which is also owned by Tribune.

Editorial style

Despite having a tabloid format, Newsday is not known for being as sensationalistic as other daily tabloids such as the New York Daily News and the New York Post. Newsday is also well known for its strongly liberal political viewpoint and, as the only major newspaper on Long Island, has often used its clout to influence local politics in Nassau and Suffolk counties. James M. Klurfeld, Editor of the Editorial Page, has been accused by local politicians and candidates of threatening to use Newsday's editorial page to criticize, and withhold election endorsements from, politicians who vote or act contrary to the policy views advocated by the paper's editorial board. This practice was the subject of an exposé in the Long Island Press, which reported that "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." http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?cp=38&show=article&a_id=267

Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/moyesrbill/moyersbill.htm . Robert M. Johnson, publisher during the late-1980s effort to break into New York, hired such prestigious New York newspaper columnists and critics as Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, sportswriter Mike Lupica, and music critic Tim Page. Newsday featured both 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.http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103955983.html?dids=103955983:103955983&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+19%2C+1988&author=By+Tom+Morris&pub=Newsday&edition=Combined+editions&startpage=47&desc=A+Decade+Later%2C+Still+at+Crossroads , http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/102519729.html?dids=102519729:102519729&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+4%2C+1991&author=By+Greg+Steinmetz.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday&edition=Combined+editions&startpage=29&desc=Planners+tried+before+to+set+a+course+for+Long+Island%2C+but+it+was+a+road+not+taken.+At+a+summit+this+week+they%27ll+once+again+go..BACK+TO+THE+FUTURE ,http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104789761.html?dids=104789761:104789761&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+13%2C+1988&author=&pub=Newsday&edition=Combined+editions&startpage=58&desc=LI+Planners+Need+Cooperation%2C+Not+Competition
It lasted approximately a decade.

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.

Referneces

*Newsday.com
*amNY.com

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