Media in Rochester, New York

This is a list of media serving Rochester, New York, and its surrounding area.

Daily newspapers

 * Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester's main daily newspaper, published since 1833
 * Insider magazine (owned by the Democrat and Chronicle)
 * The Daily Record – legal, real estate, and business daily, has published Monday through Friday since 1908

Weekly and monthly publications

 * City Newspaper – free, monthly publication published since 1972
 * Genesee Valley Penny Saver – free, weekly magazine
 * Rochester Business Journal – weekly business paper
 * The Good Life Magazine – free bi-monthly publication
 * Rochester Indymedia – grassroots, democratically run Independent Media Center
 * Minority Reporter – free, weekly African-American newspaper
 * La Voz – an associated monthly, bilingual newspaper for the area's Hispanic population
 * The Empty Closet – free monthly LGBT magazine that has been published since 1971, making it the oldest LGBT publication in New York and one of the oldest in the United States
 * The Catholic Courier – circulated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester since 1889

Student publications

 * The Campus Times (University of Rochester)
 * The Monroe Doctrine (Monroe Community College)
 * The Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Defunct newspapers
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.

Rochester was served by the Rochester Post Express published by the Post Express Print Company from 1882 to 1923. In 1923 the paper merged with the Rochester News Corporation's Rochester Evening Journal to become Rochester Evening Journal and The Post Express and served the area from 1923 through 1937. 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.

Freetime (1987–2016) was a free, weekly entertainment magazine.

About... time (1972–2002) was an African-American magazine.

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.

Television
Rochester is served by eight broadcast television stations:
 * CBS: WROC-TV 8 (cable 8)
 * NBC: WHEC-TV 10 (cable 10)
 * ABC: WHAM 13 (cable 13)
 * PBS: WXXI-TV 21 (cable 11)
 * Fox: WUHF 31 (cable 7)
 * MyNetworkTV: WBGT-CD 46 (cable 18)
 * CW: WHAM-DT2 (13–2) (cable 16)
 * Rochester Community TV (RCTV cable 15)

Cable
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.

Radio
Rochester is served by a number of AM and FM radio stations:

To see a complete list of radio stations in Rochester including the Rochester Metropolitan area, please see: (Rochester radio)