A Long-Island-based suitor with deep pockets, but no newspaper experience, has emerged the surprise winner in the bidding war for Newsday, the Long Island tabloid put up for sale by the debt-ridden Tribune Company.

How is the aviation pioneer, accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, connected to the Jewish newspaper mogul?

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has agreed in principle to pay $580 million for Newsday in a deal with the Chicago-based Tribune Co. that would reshape the New York City tabloid world.