Newsday
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Tribune Company (Sale to Cablevision Pending) |
| Publisher | Tim Knight[1] |
| Editor | John Mancini[1] |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Headquarters | 235 Pinelawn Road Melville, New York 11747  United States |
| Circulation | 398,231 Daily[2] 464,169 Sunday[3] |
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| Website: Newsday.com | |
Newsday is a daily tabloid-size Pulitzer Prize winning 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.[4] As of fall 2007, Newsday's weekday circulation of 387,000 made it 10th-highest in the United States, and the highest for a suburban newspaper.[5]
The newspaper headquarters is in Melville, New York, on Long Island.
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[edit] History
Founded by Alicia Patterson, with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the paper was first published on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. After Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim became publisher and editor, and in 1971, 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.
In April 2008, it was reported that News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch is looking to purchase Newsday for $580 million.[6] This was soon followed by a matching bid from New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman[7] and a $680 million bid from Cablevision.[8] However, by May 2008, Murdoch withdrew his bid, leaving Cablevision close to a deal. [9]
On May 12, 2008, Newsday reported that it would be purchased by Cablevision in a deal worth $650m. [10]
[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] 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.[11][12] In 2004, the rival Long Island Press wrote that Newsday has used its clout to influence local politics in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.[13]
Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher.[14] 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 newspaper columnists and critics included Jimmy Breslin, Barbara Garson, 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, reality TV columnist Frank Lovece, and film critics Gene Seymour, John Anderson and Jan Stuart.
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. 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.
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.[15][16][17] It lasted approximately a decade.
[edit] Circulation
In 2008, Newsday was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States.[5]
A circulation scandal in 2004 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.[18] 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.[18]
[edit] 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.
- The lead female character in the "Crocodile" Dundee movies worked at Newsday.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b About Us: Executive Bios. Newsday Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
- ^ "Circulation at the Top 20 Newspapers", The Associated Press, 2007-04-30. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ [1] The Pulitzer Board Presents the Pulitzer Prize Winners
- ^ a b Three New York Moguls in Talks to Buy Newsday", by Tim Arango and Richard Pérez-Peña, March 21, 2008
- ^ Newsday (April 23, 2008): "Murdoch tells LI officials deal for Newsday close", by Ellen Yan and James T. Madadore
- ^ Reuters (April 16, 2008): "Zuckerman submits $580 million Newsday bid: source", by Robert Macmillan and Kenneth Lee
- ^ Reuters (May 2, 2008): "Cablevision submits $650 mln bid for Newsday: source" by Jui Chakravorty Das
- ^ Reuters (May 11, 2008)
- ^ Cablevision announces deal to buy Newsday, Newsday, May 12, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Long Island Press, "Game Over: How the Paper's Monopoly Control Has Warped its Coverage and Hurt Long Island", by Christopher Twarowski, Dec. 30, 2004: "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
- ^ a b Audit Bureau of Circulation, "ABC Releases Newsday Audit", November 16, 2004
