Newsday Archives Online- Discovering that Long Island Point of View
This is a big event for newspaper researchers particularly if you come from Long Island like myself. This is because on newspapers.com- the leading source for accessing high quality newspaper archives - have added what looks like the entire archives for the Long Island newspaper Newsday which dates back- as far as I could tell- to 1940 or so- under various editions. At first glance it looks like the Nassau and Suffolk editions are up on the site relatively complete but either way a huge addition to the newspaper research community has been made.
Researchers from the New York area have been waiting for a long time and it's been a little bit disheartening over the years to not have been able to access the news and events from the area of your birth. The famed Brooklyn Eagle has been up for many years but that paper of course concentrated on Brooklyn and while the New York Times and the NY Daily News have been accessible- for a price- trying to find information from the Long Island area has been a lost cause.
Neither Newsday or the Long island Press archives have been available and we’ve had to contend ourselves with researching other close-by regions like Bridgeport and Westchester. While the Long Island press is still not available Newsday is now up on the newspapers.com website. But like the NY Times and the Daily News it does cost a bit- $19.90 a month as it is deemed a Publisher’s Extra item.
The Long Island market has always been a unique picture of American suburbia and its diversity- politically and otherwise and Newsday- for the most part has been a respected and iconic representative of the Long Island scene. Now thanks to newspapers.com we can literally go back in time and see how the world was viewed from those two counties east of the Big Apple. Whether you’re into JFK, the Mets, rock music, films or other issues that we’ve grown up it’s fun to finally see them from a Long Island perspective.
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