Long Island Press

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TypeMonthly Newspaper
Owner(s)Schneps Communications
PublisherJoanna Austin
Editor-in-chiefTimothy Bolger
Founded2003
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters6901 Jericho Tpke.
Suite 215
Syosset, New York, U.S.
Circulation 57,500 Monthly(as of 2017) [1]
Website www.longislandpress.com

The Long Island Press is a free monthly news and lifestyle magazine serving Long Island. It is owned by Schneps Media.

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History

Its previous print incarnation was as a free, independent print and digital monthly news journal 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. [2] The staff of the Press included former Newsday columnist Ed Lowe, [3] television columnist Todd Hyman, and technology columnist Lazlow Jones.

On March 24, 2011, New York City's Daily News and Long Island Press announced that the News would print the Press on its state-of-the-art, high-volume, full-color press equipment. [4] In 2014 the Long Island Press ceased printing of its paper to focus solely on their website. [5]

In April 2017, the publication was acquired by Schneps Communications. [6] In July 2017, it was announced that the publication would return to print in September 2017 as a free news and lifestyle monthly. [7]

Awards

The alternative weekly print version of the Long Island Press won more than 300 awards throughout its 10 years in existence, including accolades from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), Fair Media Council, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Press Club of Long Island (PCLI), Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Journalism Center on Children & Families, Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, and Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation.[ citation needed ] The paper was awarded the New York Press Association's top prize, the prestigious Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence, in 2010 and 2012, making it the association's "Newspaper of the Year" two out of three years.[ citation needed ]

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