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'Newsday' Editors Return After Cablevision Dispute

Editor & Publisher , Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:30 AM

Newsday settled an editorial disagreement that is likely to become more common in the industry, as financially strapped publishers try to use news content to aid the bottom line. Newsday editor John Mancini was missing from his office for several days, due to a dispute with new owner Cablevision over editorial content. He returned to the newspaper's offices Tuesday with the matter "resolved."

Mancini told the newsroom staff that his absence since last week "was due to a difference of opinion with ownership over editorial policy. That has been settled. No one outside the newsroom influences our news coverage."

Two other editors had also been missing for a few days and were back at work, but it is unclear how they were involved. During the absences, the paper's news staff was in the dark about whether their editors had been ousted by Cablevision. Employees said the dispute was prompted by the paper's coverage of allegations against a player on the New York Knicks, a basketball team owned by Cablevision. But one insider says the conflict was about overall coverage, not any particular topic.

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