The Journal News

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The Journal News
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett Company
Publisher George Troyano
Editor Traci Bauer
Founded 1852
Headquarters 1133 Westchester Avenue, Suite N110
White Plains, New York 10604
 United States
Circulation 164,059 Daily
186,632 Sunday[1]
Website lohud.com

The Journal News is a newspaper in New York serving the New York counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, a region known as the Lower Hudson Valley. 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, ten of the 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.[2] These newspapers previously appeared on newsstands in the evening. In 1989, Gannett created a morning edition for Putnam County, Westchester, and the Bronx called The Sunrise,[3] but it folded after a year. Today, The Journal News appears in the morning like other New York dailies.

History

Newspapers that merged to create The Journal News:

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:

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 launched Rockland Magazine and Putnam Magazine in 2005, and Scarsdale Magazine (originally InTown Scarsdale) in early 2006.

The Journal News also publishes five ultra-local community weekly "Express" newspapers serving Northern Westchester, Putnam, Yorktown/Cortlandt, Sound Shore and White Plains as well as the Review Press, a weekly newspaper covering Eastchester, Bronxville and Tuckahoe.

The Journal News' Web site, LoHud.com, features daily news updates, more than 40 blogs as well as Varsity Insider, an online source for varsity sports, featuring rosters, schedules and statistic for high school teams throughout the region.

On March 7, 2010 The Journal News closed its press and outsourced printing.

Pistol permit map controversy

On December 22, 2012 The Journal News published an interactive map showing the names, addresses and home locations of all pistol permit holders licensed in Westchester and Rockland counties, New York.[4]

The following day, blogger Christopher Fountain published the names and addresses of the staffers of The Journal News.[5][6][7] The newspaper and some of its staff responded by hiring armed security, a move that critics considered hypocritical considering the paper's anti-gun stance.[8][9][10]

Rockland County law enforcement officers condemned the map, saying that it endangered lives, including those of corrections officers.[11] Several newspapers also published reports of victims of domestic violence, rape, or other violent crimes who reported that their attackers now had possession of their addresses as their names were published online.[12]

Newsday has reported that police are investigating if the Journal News pistol permit map played a role in a burglary in White Plains, New York. According to police, at least two burglars broke into a home on January 12, 2013 but were unsuccessful in an attempt to open a gun safe, which contained legally owned weapons. Police are investigating what role, if any, the Journal News database played in the burglars' decision to target the home.[4]

The Daily Mail has reported that a burglary has occurred in a similarly mapped home in New City, New York, on January 16, 2013. Burglars pried escaped with two handguns, two pistol permits, cash, savings bonds and jewelry. The firearms were in the stolen safe.[13]

On January 19, 2013, the newspaper removed the interactive map,[14] although the information it contained was subsequently leaked on the Internet.[15]

On August 7, 2013, the newspaper laid off 26 staff members, including 17 journalists.

References

  1. ↑ "eCirc for U.S. Newspapers". Audit Bureau of Circulation. 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
  2. ↑ Gannett Co., Inc. "About Gannett: The Journal News". Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  3. ↑ New York Times, April 10, 1989, "Sunrise Paper in New York Suburbs"
  4. 1 2 Timothy O'Connor; Meghan E. Murphy (2013-01-13). "Journal News gun permit map used by burglars to target White Plains home?". Newsday.
  5. ↑ "Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood? | Talk of the Sound". Newrochelletalk.com. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
  6. ↑ AF Morten Bay, Los Angeles. "Lokalavis afslører ejere af skydevåben" (in Danish). Politiken.dk. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
  7. ↑ Hayley Peterson (2012-12-27). "Blogger publishes New York newspaper employees' names and addresses in retaliation against paper's decision to publish map of gun permit holders | Mail Online". London: Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
  8. ↑ Dicker, Ron (2013-01-02). "Journal News Hires Armed Guards After Its Map Of Gun Owners Causes Backlash: Report". Huffington Post.
  9. ↑ Connelly, Eileen AJ (January 3, 2013). "Putnam County, NY, won't give gun info to paper". Yahoo! News. Associated Press. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ Spiering, Charlie (2013-01-15). "James O’Keefe meets and films armed security at the homes of Journal-News journalists". Washington Examiner.
  11. ↑ Armaghan, Sarah (2014-01-04). "Journal News gun permit map endangers officers, officials say". Newsday.
  12. ↑ Fund, John (January 7, 2013). "Guns for Me but Not for Thee". National Review Online.
  13. ↑ "Burglars steal two guns from home featured on weapons permit map". Daily Mail (London). 2013-01-17.
  14. ↑ http://www.lohud.com/article/20130119/NEWS05/301190057/The-Journal-News-pulls-gun-permit-data
  15. ↑ http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/20/0317245/new-york-pistol-permit-owner-list-leaked

External links

Magazines published by The Journal News:

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