Long Island Press

Cover of the July 2, 2008 issue of Long Island Press
Type	News Journal
Format	Online
Owner(s)	Morey Publishing
Publisher	Jed Morey
Editor-in-chief	Christopher Twarowski
Founded	2003
Language	English
Headquarters	575 Underhill Blvd. Suite 210 Syosset, New York 11791  United States
Website	longislandpress.com

The Long Island Press is a free, independent online monthly news journal serving Long Island with extensive coverage of local and national news, arts and entertainment, sports and alternative political viewpoints. It is available daily online at www.LongIslandPress.com. Known as "L.I.'s Cultural Arts and Investigative News Journal," the newspaper was founded in 2003 after its parent company, Morey Publishing, bought The Island Ear, which was a free bi-monthly entertainment-oriented newspaper. Morey Publishing renamed the paper, using the same name of a daily newspaper that was forced out of business in 1977, and launched it as a free alternative newsweekly. The staff of the Press has included former Newsday columnist Ed Lowe, television columnist Todd Hyman and technology columnist Lazlow. The paper remained an alternative newsweekly for a decade, re-launching in its current online monthly format on Jan. 1, 2013.

The Long Island Press ceased printing of its paper to focus solely on their website, www.longislandpress.com.

The Press reports that on average, 850,000 to 1,000,000 visitors come to their flagship website www.LongIslandPress.com per month. The website contains a mix of content from the monthly edition, as well as daily local, national, world, entertainment, sports and human interest news and stories. Several Press staffers maintain blogs as a part of the site.

On March 24, 2011 New York City's 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.

The Long Island Press was also the name of a daily newspaper that lasted for 156 years. It was originally known as the Long Island Farmer which was founded in 1821. The paper changed its name to The Long Island Daily Press in 1921, then shortened it 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. Regular columnists included Walter Kaner.