He has purchased Newsday, the voice of Long Island, which used to also have a venerable Manhattan-based Metro desk, but which has scaled back there in recent years. Newsday would share content with Murdoch‘s New York Post, which would significantly change the tenor of its coverage, pushing it to the right. So let’s review New York’s daily print media. Right of center: the Daily News, the Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun, and now Newsday. Left of center: the New York Times.

Gulp.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.