List of newspapers in Tennessee

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This is a list of newspapers in Tennessee , United States.

Contents

Daily and nondaily newspapers

TitleLocaleYear est.FrequencyPublisher/parent companyNotes
Advertiser News Spring Hill Weekly GateHouse Media [1]
Ashland City Times Ashland City Weekly
Buffalo River Review Linden Weekly or bi-weekly
Camden Chronicle Camden Weekly
Chattanooga Courier Chattanooga Weekly or bi-weekly
Chattanooga Pulse Chattanooga Weekly or bi-weekly
Chattanooga Times Free Press [2] Chattanooga 1869 [3] DailyBegan as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press
Chester County Independent HendersonWeekly
Citizen Tribune Morristown 1966 [4] Daily
Cleveland Daily Banner Cleveland 1854 [5] Daily
Commercial Appeal, The [3] Memphis [2] 1840 [5] Daily Gannett Company [6]
Covington Leader Covington Weeklyname changed to The Leader in 2007
Crockett Times, The Crockett County Weekly
Crossville Chronicle Crossville Weekly or bi-weekly
The Daily Beacon Knoxville 1965 [7] WeeklyStudent-run at the University of Tennessee Successor to The Orange and White
The Daily Herald Columbia 1850 [5] Daily GateHouse Media [1]
Daily News, The [2] Memphis Daily
Daily News Journal, The [2] Murfreesboro Daily Gannett Company [6]
Daily Post Athenian Athens 1838 [5]
Democratic-Union, The Lawrenceburg 1884bi-weekly
Dresden Enterprise Dresden 1883WeeklyMagic Valley Publishing
Dyersburg State Gazette Dyersburg
Eagleville Times Eagleville Weekly or bi-weekly
El Crucero Newspaper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Elizabethton Star Elizabethton Weekly or bi-weekly
Elk Valley Times Fayetteville Weekly or bi-weekly
Farragutpress Farragut Weekly or bi-weekly
Gallatin News Examiner, The Gallatin Weekly
Gallatin Newspaper, The Gallatin Weekly or bi-weekly
Grainger Today Grainger County Weekly
Greenville Sun, The Greeneville Daily
Grundy County Herald Tracy City Weekly or bi-weekly
Herald & Tribune Jonesborough Weekly or bi-weekly
Herald-Chronicle Winchester Weekly or bi-weekly
Herald-Citizen Cookeville Daily
Jackson Sun, The [2] Jackson Daily Gannett Company [6]
Jasper Journal Jasper Weekly or bi-weekly
Johnson City Press [2] Johnson City Weekly or bi-weekly
Kingsport Times-News Kingsport Daily
KingstonSprings.org Kingston Springs Weekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville Daily Sun Knoxville Daily
Knoxville Focus, The Weekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville News Sentinel [2] Knoxville 1886 [3] Daily Gannett Company [6] Began as the Sentinel
La Prensa Latina Memphis Weekly or bi-weekly
LaFolette Press LaFolette Weekly or bi-weekly
Lawrence County Advocate Lawrenceburg 1986Bi-weekly
Leaf-Chronicle [2] Clarksville 1808 [5] Daily Gannett Company [6]
Lebanon Democrat Lebanon Daily
Lee Clarion Cleveland Weekly or bi-weekly
Manchester Times Manchester Weekly or bi-weekly
Maryville Daily Times Maryville Daily
McNairy County News Selmer Weekly or bi-weekly
Memphis Daily News Memphis Weekly or bi-weekly
Memphis Flyer Memphis Weekly or bi-weekly
Memphis Tri-State Defender Memphis 1951 [8] Weekly or bi-weekly
Monroe County Advocate & Democrat Sweetwater Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group [9]
Mt. Juliet Chronicle Mount Juliet Weekly or bi-weekly
Mountain Press, The Sevierville
Murfreesboro Post Murfreesboro Weekly
Murfreesboro Vision Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville City Paper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Dispatch Nashville Before 1865 [10] Daily
Nashville Ledger Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Medical News Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Pride Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Scene Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Times and True Union Nashville 1862 [11] Daily
Newport Plain Talk Newport Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group [9]
Oak Ridger, The Oak Ridge Daily GateHouse Media [1]
Out & About Newspaper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Paris Post-Intelligencer Paris Daily
Portland Sun Portland, TennesseeWeekly or bi-weekly
Roane County News Kingston Weekly or bi-weekly
Rutherford Reader, The Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Savannah Courier Savannah Weekly or bi-weekly
Sewanee Mountain Messenger Sewanee Weekly or bi-weekly
South Pittsburg Hustler South Pittsburg Weekly or bi-weekly
Southern Standard McMinnville Weekly or bi-weekly
Tennessee Star Journal Pigeon Forge Weekly or bi-weekly
Tennessee Tribune Nashville 1992 [8] Weekly or bi-weekly
Tennessean, The [2] Nashville 1907Daily Gannett Company [6] Began as Nashville Whig in 1812; later became Nashville American [3] [5]
Times Gazette Shelbyville Daily
Tirade Media Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Tullahoma News and Guardian Tullahoma Daily
Union City Daily Messenger Union City Daily
Weakley County Press Martin Weekly or bi-weekly
Williamson Herald Franklin Weekly
Wilson Post Lebanon Weekly or bi-weekly
Winchester Herald-Chronicle Winchester Weekly or bi-weekly

Defunct

TitleLocaleYear est.Year ceasedNotes
Brownlow's Whig Knoxville18491871Began in 1839 in Elizabethton
Chattanooga Blade [12] Chattanooga
Chattanooga Evening NewsChattanooga1888Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999 [8]
Knoxville Gazette Knoxville17921818 [12]
Knoxville JournalKnoxville1991 [12]
Knoxville Negro World [13] Knoxville
Linden MailLinden1890s [14] 1910s
Linden TimesLinden1880 [14] 1883
Memphis Daily ScimitarMemphis1881 [3] Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926 [8]
Memphis Free Speech Memphis1888 [12]
Memphis Post Memphis18661869
Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis19261983
Memphis WorldMemphis1931 [12] 1972
Nashville Banner Nashville1876 [3] 1998
Nashville GlobeNashville19061960 [12]
Nashville Union and American Nashville18531875Also published as the Daily Union and American and Nashville Union and Dispatch [15]
The Perry CountianLinden1924s [14] 1978Merged with the Buffalo River Review
Republican Banner Nashville1837?1875Merged with the Nashville Union and American to form The American
Review AppealFranklin1813 [5]
The Union Flag Jonesborough18651873 [16]

See also

U.S. newspapers

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References

  1. 1 2 3 GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Tennessee, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Members". Knoxville: Tennessee Press Association. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. Vol. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
  4. "About Us". CitizenTribune.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Tennessee, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
  7. "About Us". UTDailyBeacon.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee". Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "About Adams Publishing Group". AdamsPG.com. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  10. ""The Nashville Dispatch" "published daily (Monday's excepted), at No. 11 Deaderick Street (old Banner Office), by John Wallace & Co." 1865 ad in Polk's Nashville City Directory ...1865 (IA polksnashvilleda00nash) (page 128 crop)". Commons.wikmedia.
  11. ""Nashville Times and True Union" anti-slavery newspaper, S. C. Mercer, Editor 1865 ad in Polk's Nashville (Davidson county, Tenn.) City Directory ... 1865 (IA polksnashvilleda00nash) (page 14 crop)". Commons.wikimedia.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture". Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  13. Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.
  14. 1 2 3 "Titles in County: perry, tennessee". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  15. "About Nashville Union and American". Library of Congress.
  16. "The Union flag. [volume]". The Union Flag. ISSN   2331-2912 . Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  17. "Department of Journalism". University of Memphis. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

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