This is a list of media serving Rochester, New York, and its surrounding area.
Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper The North Star was published in Rochester from 1847 to 1851 and merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper, which was published until 1860.[12]
Rochester was served by the Rochester Post Express published by the Post Express Print Company from 1882 to 1923.[13] In 1923 the paper merged with the Rochester News Corporation's Rochester Evening Journal[14] to become Rochester Evening Journal and The Post Express and served the area from 1923 through 1937.[15] Rochester's evening paper for many years was the Times-Union, which merged operations with the Democrat and Chronicle in 1992, going defunct five years later.
New Women's Times (1975–1985) was a radical feminist newspaper that had reached a national readership by end of its publication. In 1981, it had a circulation of 25,000.[16]
Freetime (1987–2016) was a free, weekly entertainment magazine.[17]
About... time (1972–2002) was an African-American magazine.[18][19]
The Rochester Patriot published 23 times a year from around 1972 until 1982.
The Jewish Ledger – weekly newspaper serving the Rochester area's Jewish community since 1924. Stopped publication in December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Monroe County Post – had different publications serving different parts of the Rochester area. Gannett discontinued the publications in 2020 as a cost-saving move.
Rochester is served by eight broadcast television stations:
Charter Communications provides Rochester with cable-fed internet service, digital and standard cable television, and Spectrum News 1 Rochester, a 24-hour local news channel.
Rochester is served by several AM and FM radio stations including:
