Cover of the July 2, 2008 issue of Long Island Press |
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| Type | Newsweekly |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Morey Publishing |
| Publisher | Jed Morey |
| Editor-in-chief | Michael Patrick Nelson |
| General manager | Steven McKenna |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 575 Underhill Blvd. Suite 210 Syosset, New York 11791 United States |
| Circulation | 77,306[1] |
| Official website | longislandpress.com |
The Long Island Press is a free newsweekly serving Long Island with extensive coverage of arts and entertainment, sports, and alternative political viewpoints. The newspaper started in 2003 after its parent company, Morey Publishing, bought The Long Island Ear, which was a free bi-monthly entertainment-oriented newspaper. The Morey Publishing re-named the paper, using the same name of a paper that was forced out of business in 1977. The staff of the Press has included former Newsday columnist Ed Lowe, television columnist Todd Hyman, technology columnist Lazlow, relationship columnist Holly Marie Busacca, NASCAR/pro wrestling reporter Josh Stewart and general sports columnist Chick Dubinsky. It is the ninth largest weekly newspaper in the United States and took its name from a paper by the same name that was forced out of business by a union strike in 1977.
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Long Island Press is the largest news and entertainment weekly on Long Island. The average weekly circulation is 85,000, distributed each week to over 2,000 locations including supermarkets, delis, diners, schools, libraries, office buildings and more. The Press has an average pass around rate of 2.3 and touches approximately 195,500 readers each week. The Press also provides more than 25,000 digital subscriptions.
On March 24, 2011 The New York Daily News and Long Island Press announced that New York’s Hometown Newspaper would print Long Island’s largest weekly newspaper on its state-of-the-art, high-volume, full-color press equipment[2].
The Long Island Press was the name of a daily newspaper that lasted for 156 years. It was originally known as the Long Island Farmer which was founded in the 1840s. The paper changed its name to The Long Island Daily Press in the 1920s, and then became simply Long Island Press in 1967. The Sunday edition bore the name Long Island Sunday Press. Both editions used a broadsheet format. It became known as the only New York paper to report on local government scandals until an extended strike by the Printing Pressmen's union forced the paper to go out of business on March 25, 1977[3]. Regular columnists included Walter Kaner.
The Levittown Public Library in Nassau County has microfilm of the original daily Long Island Press from 1944 to 1977. The Long Island Division of the Queens Library also has microfilm from 1921 to 1977.
The Long Island Press has won more than 185 awards throughout its eight years in existence. Among others, these include accolades from: the New York Press Association (NYPA), Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), Fair Media Council, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Press Club of Long Island (PCLI), Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Journalism Center on Children & Families Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation.