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'''''Newsday''''' is a daily [[newspaper]] in the United States primarily serving [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau]] and [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk]] counties on [[Long Island]], although it is also sold throughout the [[New York metropolitan area]]. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZqaDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT152 |title=Finding Patterns: Traveling Four Women'S Paths |author=Josefa Pace |year=2016 |page=16|publisher=Archway |isbn=9781480835450 }}</ref> The newspaper's headquarters are located in [[Melville, New York]].
Since its founding in 1940, ''Newsday'' has won 19 [[Pulitzer Prize]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newsday |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/150145.Newsday |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> Historically, it penetrated the New York City market.
As of 2023, ''Newsday'' is the [[List of newspapers in the United States|eighth-largest]] circulation newspaper in the United States with a [[print circulation]] of 86,850.
==History==
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Founded by [[Alicia Patterson]] and her husband, [[Harry Guggenheim]], the first edition of ''Newsday'' was September 3, 1940, published from [[Hempstead, New York|Hempstead]].<ref>Arlen, A., Arlen, M.J. ''The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher'' (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016) {{ISBN|9781101871133}}</ref>
Until undergoing a major redesign in the 1970s, ''Newsday'' copied the ''[[New York Daily News|Daily News]]'' format of short stories and numerous pictures. 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. She later went on the publish and edit ''Newsday''. Following 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 the anti-[[Vietnam War]] protests.<ref name="time42770">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909136,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030152452/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909136,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2010|title=The Press: How Much Independence?|date=April 27, 1970|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref><ref name="keeler">{{cite book|last=Keeler|first=Robert F.|title=Newsday: a candid history of the respectable tabloid|publisher=Morrow|year=1990|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newsdaycandidhis00keel_0/page/460 460–61]|isbn=1-55710-053-5|url=https://archive.org/details/newsdaycandidhis00keel_0/page/460}}</ref>
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The two ultimately split over the [[1968 United States presidential election|1968 presidential election]], with Guggenheim authoring an editorial supporting [[Richard Nixon]] when Moyers supported [[Hubert Humphrey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/608632712.html?dids=608632712:608632712&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+17%2C+1968&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=NEWSDAY+GOES+FOR+NIXON%2C+BUT+MOYERS+BALKS&pqatl=google|title=Newsday Goes For Nixon, But Moyers Balks|date=October 17, 1968|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=February 15, 2010|archive-date=May 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511141630/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/608632712.html?dids=608632712:608632712&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+17%2C+1968&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=NEWSDAY+GOES+FOR+NIXON%2C+BUT+MOYERS+BALKS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1970, Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative [[Times-Mirror Company]] over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later.<ref name="time42770"/><ref name="nyt51370">{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F12FC3F5D137B93C1A8178ED85F448785F9|title=Moyers Resigns Post at Newsday|date=May 13, 1970|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref><ref name="raymont313">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/13/archives/newsday-employes-seek-to-block-sale-of-the-paper.html|title=Newsday Employes [sic] Seek to Block Sale of the Paper|last=Raymont|first=Henry|date=March 13, 1970|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref> Guggenheim, who died a year later, had Moyers removed from his will.<ref>{{cite news|title=$12 Million Left to Charity by Guggenheim|date=January 30, 1971|work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>
After the competing ''[[Long Island Press]]'' (not to be confused with the alternative weekly of the same name) ceased publication in 1977, ''Newsday'' launched a separate [[Queens]] edition, followed by a New York City edition dubbed ''New York Newsday''. In June 2000, Times Mirror merged with the [[Tribune Company]], partnering ''Newsday'' with the New York City television station [[WPIX]], also owned by Tribune.
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With the Times Mirror-Tribune merger, the newspaper founded by [[Alicia Patterson]] was now owned by the company that was founded by her great-grandfather, [[Joseph Medill]], who owned the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' and, until 1991, also owned her father's ''Daily News''. Tribune sold the ''Daily News'' to British newspaper magnate [[Robert Maxwell]].
Following Maxwell's death in 1992,
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