The Long Island Press
Cover of the July 2, 2008 issue of Long Island Press
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| Type | Monthly Newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Schneps Communications |
| Publisher | Victoria Schneps-Yunis |
| Editor-in-chief | Timothy Bolger |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 575 Underhill Blvd. Suite 210 Syosset, New York 11791  United States
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| Website | www |
The Long Island Press is a free, independent print and digital monthly news journal serving Long Island with extensive coverage of local and national news, arts and entertainment, sports and alternative political viewpoints. The newspaper was founded in 2003 by Jed Morey after then 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 publication was acquired by Schneps Communications in April 2017.
In 2014 the Long Island Press ceased printing of its paper to focus solely on their website. In July of 2017, it was announced that the publication would return to print in September 2017 as a monthly news and lifestyle title.
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.
The Archives (formerly the Long Island Division) at the Queens Library has microfilm of the Long Island Daily Press from 1921 to 1977, and of the Long Island Farmer from 1821 to 1920. The Queens Library Archives also has a collection of approximately 3,000 photographs from the Long Island Daily Press photo morgue. The Levittown Public Library in Nassau County has microfilm of the Long Island Daily Press from 1944 to 1977.
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