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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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 The front page of Newsday on February 21, 2012 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Newsday Media (Patrick Dolan) |
| Publisher | Debby Krenek |
| Editor | Don Hudson |
| Founded | September 3, 1940 |
| Headquarters | 6 Corporate Center Drive[1] Melville, New York, U.S. 11747 |
| Circulation | 67,300 average print circulation[2] 47,000 digital subscribers[3] |
| ISSN | 0278-5587 |
| OCLC number | 5371847 |
| Website | newsday |
Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "The Long Island Newspaper".[4] The newspaper's headquarters is located in Melville, New York.
Since its founding in 1940, Newsday has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes. Historically, it penetrated the New York City market. As of 2025, Newsday is the sixth-largest circulation newspaper in the United States with a print circulation of 67,300.
Newsday was founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim. Its first edition on September 3, 1940, was published from Hempstead.[5]
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. She later went on to publish and edit Newsday. 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.[6][7]
The two ultimately split over the 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim authoring an editorial supporting Richard Nixon when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey.[8]
In 1970, 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.[6][9][10] Guggenheim, who died a year later, had Moyers removed from his will.[11]
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, the family publishing empire collapsed, and Mortimer Zuckerman purchased the Daily News.[12]
In April 2008, News Corporation, headed by CEO Rupert Murdoch, attempted to purchase Newsday for US$580 million.[13] This was followed by a matching bid from Zuckerman[14] and a $680 million bid from Cablevision.[15]
In May 2008, News Corporation withdrew its bid,[16] and on May 12, 2008, Newsday reported that Cablevision would purchase the paper for $650 million.[17] The sale was completed July 29, 2008.[18]
In 2016, Altice, a Dutch multinational telecommunications company, acquired Cablevision, including Newsday and News 12.[19][20] 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.[21][22] 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.[23]
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.[24]
In 2022, Don Hudson was named editor.[25]
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.
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.[26][27] This causes Newsday to sometimes be referred to as "the respectable tabloid".[7]
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.[28]
Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher.[29] 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.[30][31][32] 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.[33]
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.[34] 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.[34]
In 2008, Newsday was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States.[12]
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.[35] Through its first three months only 35 non-Optimum, non-Newsday subscribers signed up for the paid website.[36]
Newsday has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist for 20 additional (if no individual is listed, award is for Newsday staff):[37]
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 anti-competitive practices — to further its political or commercial agenda.
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Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "The Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters is located in Melville, New York. Since its founding in 1940, Newsday has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes. Historically, it penetrated the New York City market. As of 2025, Newsday is the sixth-largest circulation newspaper in the United States with a print circulation of 67,300.
New York Newsday was an American daily newspaper that primarily served New York City and was sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The paper, established in 1985, was a New York City-specific offshoot of Newsday, a Long Island-based newspaper that preceded (and succeeded) New York Newsday. The paper was closed by its owner, Times Mirror Company, in July 1995.
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday was a daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. Newsday was the newest of the three daily papers after the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian and the Trinidad and Tobago Express respectively. The newspaper was founded in 1993 by Daniel Chookolingo, Therese Mills became the first editor-in-chief she was the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian. Newsday bills itself as "The People's Newspaper". The week-end edition is known as the Saturday Newsday. In addition to its main offices at 17-19 Pembroke Street, Port of Spain (formerly at 23A Chacon Street) Port of Spain, the paper maintains a bureau in San Fernando and in Tobago from where they publish the local Tobago edition known as Newsday Tobago. It publishes five times a week from Monday to Friday, with Friday considered the weekend edition. In 2010, Newsday began printing copies of the USA Today International Edition on its presses. Mills compared her paper with its new American partner, calling them "both young newspapers. ... When Newsday started in 1993, we faced enormous challenges as we threw down the gauntlet to two well-established national dailies. In four years, however, Newsday had become the number one daily newspaper in readership in this country." In November 2015, the newspaper established the Newsday Tobago with Sita Bridgemohan as editor. Bridgemohan, who has more than 30 years experience as a journalist and editor, is a former editor of both the Sunday Guardian and Sunday Express. She was editor of the Sunday Newsday when she was selected to start the Newsday Tobago. The Newsday Tobago, a five-day-a-week daily newspaper, serves the sister island of Tobago, delivering local news and content to residents. In 2026, the newspaper ceased all operations after 32 years. The final online edition was published on 27 January 2026, following High Court approval for the company to be wound up.
NewsDay is a Harare-based Zimbabwean independent daily newspaper published since 2010. It began publishing on 4 June 2010 and is based in Harare. It carries the slogan "Everyday News for Everyday People" on its logo.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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