Newsday is one of the nation's largest daily newspapers, serving New York's Long Island and Queens areas as the premier source of local news and comprehensive national and international reporting. Readers connect with Newsday content through its print editions, web sites at Newsday.com, amNY.com and through TV and radio news and feature segments produced in its newsrooms for local stations.

Newsday is owned through a joint venture with Cablevision Corp and Tribune Company. Cablevision Corp is one of the country’s premier telecommunications, media and entertainment companies. Cablevision Systems Corporation portfolio of operations includes a full suite of advanced digital television, voice and high-speed Internet services, world-renowned entertainment showplaces, professional sports teams, leading newspaper services and popular national/regional programming networks. Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Cubs baseball team, and CW11 network, owns several other newspaper and broadcasting properties across the country. In July 2008, Cablevision Corp. acquired 97 percent of Newsday Media Group, through the formation of a new partnership with Tribune Company returning Newsday to Long Island ownership.

Newsday Media Group encompasses a full spectrum of media products – giving readers the information they need, when they need it, where they need it and how they need it – while offering advertisers a versatile range of opportunities to accurately target their audience and generate demand for their products and services. Our existing portfolio of products include Newsday, Newsday.com, amNew York, Island Publications and Star Community Publishing.

Newsday is committed to quality journalism with a distinguished roster of award-winning columnists and reporters. Newsday has earned 19 Pulitzer Prizes, including 1995 Pulitzers for investigative reporting and commentary, 1996 Pulitzers for explanatory journalism and beat reporting, a 1997 Pulitzer for spot news reporting for the crash of TWA Flight 800, a 2002 Pulitzer for criticism by classical music critic Justin Davidson and a 2007 Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning by Walt Handelsman.

Newsday has been recognized with numerous other awards, including: the Polk Awards, Sigma Delta Chi, National Headliners, the Society of Silurians, the Deadline Club, the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the New York Newspaper Publishers Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism (newsday.com) and the Press Club of Long Island.

In addition, Newsday is often recognized with awards for excellence for its illustrations, graphics and overall design by the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Illustrators and the Associated Press.

THE VISION

CONNECT Long Islanders to one another, their communities and their passions.

THE MISSION:

1) OUR CULTURE - We will succeed by being innovative, collaborative, quick, flexible and customer-driven.

2) OUR BUSINESS - We will profit by developing the next generation of diversified media and marketplaces.

3) OUR JOURNALISM - We will produce the highest quality, locally focused coverage.

4) OUR SERVICE - We will be easy to do business with, giving customers what they want - when, where and how they want it.

5) OUR PHILOSOPHY - We will be a responsible citizen in our community.

6) OUR TEAM - We will value diversity, demand bold leadership and reward high performance.