Newsday
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The February 21, 2012 front page of Newsday
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Patrick and Charles Dolan (75%) Altice USA (25%) |
| Publisher | vacant |
| Editor | Debbie Henley |
| Founded | September 3, 1940 |
| Headquarters | 235 Pinelawn Road Melville, New York 11747 USA |
| Circulation | 437,000 Daily 495,000 Sunday |
| ISSN | 0278-5587 |
| OCLC number | 5371847 |
| Website | www |
Newsday is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. As of 2009, its weekday circulation of 377,500 was the 11th-highest in the United States, and the highest among suburban newspapers. In 2012, Newsday expanded to include Rockland and Westchester county news on its website. As of January 2014, Newsday's total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays.
The newspaper's headquarters is in Melville, New York, in Suffolk County.
Founded by T. Harold Forbes as the Nassau County Journal in Hempstead in 1939, Mr. Forbes sold the paper to Alicia Patterson—the daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News—with backing from her husband, Harry Guggenheim. The new publication was first produced on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. For many years until a major redesign in the 1970s, Newsday copied the Daily News format of short stories and lots of pictures (Ironically, 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). After 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 Vietnam War protests. The two split over the 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim signing an editorial supporting Richard Nixon, when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey.
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