| New York Journal-American | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Founded: | 1882 (as New York Morning Journal) 1895 (as The Journal) 1896 (New York Evening Journal) 1901 (as New York (Morning) American) 1937 (merger) |
| Price: | USD 0.20 City & Suburbs 1957 |
| Owners: | William Randolph Hearst (1895–1951) William Randolph Hearst Jr. (1951–1966) |
| Publisher: | Hearst Corporation |
| Headquarters: | New York City |
Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening JournalThe New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966. The Journal-American was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst: the New York American (originally the New York Journal, renamed American in 1901), a morning paper, and the New York Evening Journal, an afternoon paper. Both were published by Hearst from 1895 to 1937. The American and Evening Journal merged in 1937.
Joseph Pulitzer's younger brother Albert founded the New York Morning Journal in 1882. After three years of its existence, John R. McLean briefly acquired the paper in 1895. It was renamed The Journal. But a year later in 1896, he sold it to Hearst.[1]
In 1901, the morning newspaper was renamed New York American, following claims that the newspaper's editorial policies had encouraged the assassination of President McKinley.
On election night, November 7, 1916, in conjunction with the De Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph company's experimental station 2XG, the paper made the first audio transmissions of election results by radio. (Earlier broadcasts had employed Morse code.) This broadcast was described by the newspaper as "For the first time the wireless telephone had been demonstrated as a practical, serviceable carrier of election news and comment."[2]
