Newsday publisher Alicia Patterson reading her newspaper in backseat of her chauffeur-driven limousine, with large fur lap robe covering her legs, en route to LI office from NYC. Long Island, NY (1958). LIFE. Great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Patterson found her calling late in life when her third husband, Harry Guggenheim, used $750,000 of the Guggenheim family’s fortune to help found the Nassau Daily Journal, also known as Newsday. books0977.