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New York Journal-American

Newspaper published in New York from 1937 to 1966

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The 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, 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.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “New York Journal-American” is newspaper published in New York from 1937 to 1966. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through York, Journal-American and Newspaper, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1966, 1895—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, York, Journal-American and Newspaper is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “New York Journal-American” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.