YONKERS MEDIA: Before becoming the Executive Editor and Vice President/News at lohud in 2005,

Traci Bauer had previously been a digital executive for Gannett and, prior to that, managing editor for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester.

Traci Bauer had also been an editor in Florida and Missouri.

Traci Bauer is probably fortunate that she is no longer associated with the the poor preforming print dinosaur known as the Journal-News that is sucking wind as it continues to be a last place performer in the local media market.

The last time that the Journal-News publicly reported its print circulation was in 2009 and the daily circulation was only 42,612 papers for all of Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties

Over the last nine years, former Journal-News staffers claim that the number of papers sold in Yonkers is less 2,000 papers a day and some have speculated that it might now be less than 1,000 papers are sold in Yonkers.

On March 7, 2010 The Journal-News closed its press and outsourced printing

On August 7, 2013, the newspaper laid off 26 staff members, including 17 journalists and since then there have been scores of other journalist that have been let go with the last two being in December of 2018 and January of 2019.

The Journal-News name comes from the Rockland Journal-News, which was based in West Nyack, N.Y., and served Rockland County.

Gannett acquired nine of the newspapers in 1964 from the Macy family and added other later that were eventually merged into the Journal-News and lohud website

Newspapers that merged in 1998 to create The Journal News:

The Daily Times (Mamaroneck)
The Daily Argus (Mount Vernon)
The Standard-Star (New Rochelle)
The Citizen Register (Ossining)
The Star (Peekskill)
The Daily Item (Port Chester)
The Daily News (Tarrytown)
Rockland Journal-News (West Nyack)
The Reporter Dispatch (White Plains)
The Herald Statesman (Yonkers)