founded in 1940, serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. A separate edition, New York Newsday, circulates in New York City. Together, they comprise America's sixth largest local newspaper. Newsday's series The Rush to Burn was published in 1987 and shared the Worth Bingham award with another series from Newsday.
One day in March 1987, a barge from Islip, Long Island was evicted from Morehead City, North Carolina, after trying to unload the mountains of trash on its decks. More than five months from the time it began its trip, the unwelcome barge, and it's 3,186 tons of commercial garbage, became the cornerstone of an astonishing news investigation that revealed a country unable to cope with its mounting garbage crisis.
Newsday reporters were the first to locate the barge, the Mobro 4000 as it drifted aimlessly off the shore of Long Island.