The Reporter Dispatch from White Plains, New York, and the Herald Statesman in Yonkers were larger and served Westchester County.

The Rockland Journal-News had an independent staff of editors, writers, photographers, an artist, etc., from the time of the 1964 purchase by Gannett until the 1996-1998 consolidation period.

[5][6] In February 2022, The Journal News ran an advertisement for an upcoming article on the East Ramapo Central School District, which Agudath Israel of America condemned as reproducing classic antisemitic tropes similar to those found in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[7][8] The Anti-Defamation League's New York / New Jersey branch also condemned the advertisement, stating that it "draws from the worst of millennia-old antisemitic tropes about Jews".

[15][16] The newspaper and some of its staff responded by hiring armed security guards, a move that critics called hypocritical considering the paper's anti-gun stance.

[22] Newsday reported that police were 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 and unsuccessfully attempted to open a gun safe containing legally owned weapons.