Rochester Journal-American

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Rochester Journal-American

The Rochester Journal-American was a daily newspaper in Rochester, New York, owned by William Randolph Hearst.

History
- The paper began as the Rochester Evening Journal in 1922, part of Hearst’s plan to expand in New York. The Sunday edition was called the Rochester American.
- In the early 1930s, the paper was criticized for breaking the National Recovery Act’s rules about workers’ right to form unions. After three weeks of talks with the Newspaper Guild, the newspaper posted that it would not recognize the guild and that negotiations would be with elected representatives of the editorial staff, not other outside groups.
- The paper stopped publishing in 1937 when Hearst sold it to the Gannett Company, which owned rival Rochester papers.

Notable personnel
- Before 1935, Meyer Jacobstein, Ph.D., was involved in publishing the Journal-American.
- Arch Merrill, a journalist, author, and poet, worked there from 1927 to 1937 and later spent 27 years at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester.
- Joe Simon, who would later co-create Captain America with Jack Kirby, had his first job out of high school at the Journal-American in 1932. He worked as an assistant to art director Adolph Edler and did sports reporting and editorial cartoons.