Newsday is the only daily newspaper in Long Island, N.Y. It is owned by Cablevision.

The paper, which has a tabloid format, was founded in 1940. It is the United States’ 13th-largest daily newspaper, with about 400,000 in daily paid circulation, including print and online, as of 2012. In 2010, the paper’s circulation suffered double-digit declines. Newsday began publishing a New York edition in 1985 called New York Newsday, which, unable to make a profit, was closed in 1995. Newsday currently publishes amNewYork, a free commuter paper that is also New York’s top-circulation daily.

Newsday was sold to the Tribune Company in 2000 and was soon discovered to have falsified its circulation numbers, a scandal that led to several employees’ convictions on criminal charges in 2006.

Newsday was bought by the telecommunications company Cablevision in 2008 for $650 million. Cablevision’s owners, James and Charles Dolan, have often been accused of meddling with the paper by, for example, refusing to run ads for the competing Verizon or critical of Cablevision and limiting negative coverage of sports teams the Dolans own.