The Journal News

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The Journal News
The July 27, 2005 front page of The Journal News
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Gannett Company
Publisher	Thomas Donovan
Editor	Henry Freeman
Founded	1852
Headquarters	One Gannett Dr. White Plains, NY 10604  United States
Circulation	140,937 Morning 163,991 Sunday [1]
Website: thejournalnews.com

The Journal News is a newspaper serving the New York counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam. It is owned by the Gannett Company, Inc.

The Journal News was created through a merger of several daily community newspapers serving the three counties. Although the current newspaper's name comes from the Rockland Journal-News, which was based in West Nyack, N.Y., and served Rockland County, the Rockland Journal-News was actually the third-largest newspaper that Gannett merged to create the larger newspaper. The Reporter Dispatch from White Plains, N.Y., and the Herald Statesman in Yonkers, N.Y. were larger and served Westchester County. For years prior to the October 12, 1998, merger that created The Journal News, the 10 newspapers shared substantial content and printing presses. Gannett acquired nine of the newspapers in 1964 from the Macy family and added The Star in Peekskill, N.Y., in 1985.

Newspapers that merged to create The Journal News:

• The Daily Times (Mamaroneck)
• The Daily Argus (Mount Vernon)
• The Standard-Star (New Rochelle)
• The Citizen Register (Ossining)
• The Star (Peekskill)
• The Daily Item (Port Chester)
• The Daily News (Tarrytown)
• Rockland Journal-News (West Nyack)
• The Reporter Dispatch (White Plains)
• The Herald Statesman (Yonkers)

In 2005, The Journal News expanded its Custom Publishing division and began publishing a series of suburban lifestyle magazines about the Lower Hudson Valley region. The first of these publications was InTown, which covered the Westchester market with hyper-local editions targeting different regions of the county:

• White Plains
• Scarsdale
• Northern Westchester (Chappaqua, Mt. Kisco, Bedford, Kathonah)
• Larchmont/Mamaroneck
• Bronxville/Tuckahoe/Eastchester
• Rye/Harrison/Purchase
• River Towns (Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown)

In late 2006, these numerous editions were all consolidated into one county-wide publication, InTown Westchester, which publishes 10 times a year. The Journal News also successfully lauched Rockland Magazine and Putnam Magazine in 2005, and Scarsdale Magazine (originally InTown Scarsdale) in early 2006.

[edit] References

1. ^ Gannett Co., Inc.. About Gannett: The Journal News. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.

[edit] External links

• TheJournalNews.com (recently also called Lower Hudson Online or lohud.com)

Magazines published by The Journal News:

• InTown Westchester
• Rockland Magazine
• Scarsdale Magazine
• Putnam Magazine