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In a year of health crises and political turmoil, readers increasingly turned to Greater Long Island for local, reliable news and information they could trust.
The sites topped a whopping 5 million views in 2020, with 3.4 million visitors. The 5 million mark was reached on Dec. 29.
“We did our very best as journalists to objectively cover rallies of all sorts, provide timely COVID-19-related announcements, but also publish stories that we felt provided a sense of normalcy during uncertain times,” said publisher Michael White.
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Below are five internal highlights from 2020:
• The Press Club of Long Island named us 3rd among the best news websites on Long Island, a list that also included newsday.com and longisland.news12.com.
• We have committed to a top-to-bottom redesign of our websites through a contract with Driven Digital, based in Bohemia, to debut in 2021.
• Our GreaterSayville site, which is published in conjunction with veteran journalist Brian Harmon of Harmonizer Media, topped 1 million all-time views.
• Greater Long Island Media Group Inc. launched GreaterSmithtown on Oct. 15. The site has since been providing engaging local news stories from across the entire town.
• We grew our staff and recently increased the role of reporter Ana Borruto of Brightwaters, who now creates content across all the sites for Greater Long Island.
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Photo: The Nissequogue River in Smithtown in October, 2020. (Credit: Andrew Theodorakis/Yellow House Images)
