List of newspapers in Tennessee

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

Daily and nondaily newspapers

Title	Locale	Year est.	Frequency	Publisher/parent company	Notes
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]	Daily		Began as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press
Chester County Independent	Henderson		Weekly
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		Weekly		name 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]	Weekly	Student-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	1884	bi-weekly
Dresden Enterprise	Dresden	1883	Weekly	Magic Valley Publishing
Dyersburg State Gazette	Dyersburg	1865	Weekly	Paxton Media Group	Oldest running business in Dyersburg, TN
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	1986	Bi-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, Tennessee		Weekly 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	1907	Daily	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
Vanderbilt Hustler, The	Nashville	1888 [12] [13] [14]	Weekly or bi-weekly	Student-run at Vanderbilt University
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

Title	Locale	Year est.	Year ceased	Notes
Afro – American Sentinel	Jackson	1890	1891?	[15]
Brownlow's Whig	Knoxville	1849	1871	Began in 1839 in Elizabethton
Chattanooga Blade [16]	Chattanooga
Chattanooga Daily Rebel	Chattanooga			[17]
Chattanooga Evening News	Chattanooga	1888		Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999 [8]
The Chattanooga Star	Chattanooga	1907	1908
Chattanooga Times	Chattanooga	1869	1999	[18]
The Commercial Bulletin	Jackson	1880		[15]
Knoxville Gazette	Knoxville	1792	1818 [16]
Knoxville Journal	Knoxville		1991 [16]
Knoxville Negro World [19]	Knoxville
Linden Mail	Linden	1890s [20]	1910s
Linden Times	Linden	1880 [20]	1883
Memphis Avalanche	Memphis	1866	1885	[21]
Memphis Daily Appeal	Memphis	1847	1886	[22]
Memphis Daily Commercial	Memphis	1889	1891	[23]
Memphis Daily Scimitar	Memphis	1881 [3]		Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926 [8]
Memphis Free Speech	Memphis	1888 [16]
Memphis Morning News	Memphis	1902	1904	[24]
Memphis Post	Memphis	1866	1869
Memphis Press-Scimitar	Memphis	1926	1983	[25]
Memphis World	Memphis	1931 [16]	1972
Nashville American	Nashville			[ citation needed ]
Nashville Banner	Nashville	1876 [3]	1998	[26]
The Nashville City Paper	Nashville	2000	2013	[27]
Nashville Globe	Nashville	1906	1960 [16]
Nashville Union and American	Nashville	1853	1875	Also published as the Daily Union and American and Nashville Union and Dispatch [28]
The Perry Countian	Linden	1924s [20]	1978	Merged with the Buffalo River Review
Republican Banner	Nashville	1837?	1875	Merged with the Nashville Union and American to form The American
Review Appeal	Franklin	1813 [5]
Tennessee Staatszeitung	Nashville	1866	187?	[29]
The Union Flag	Jonesborough	1865	1873 [30]
Wochenblatt der Tennessee Staatszeitung	Nashville	1867	1867	[31]

See also

• Tennessee media
  • List of radio stations in Tennessee
  • List of television stations in Tennessee
  • Media of cities in Tennessee: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro, Nashville
• Journalism:
  • Category:Journalists from Tennessee
  • University of Memphis Department of Journalism ^[32]
  • Southern Adventist University School of Journalism and Communication, in Collegedale
• Tennessee literature

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References

1. GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Tennessee, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
2. "Members". Knoxville: Tennessee Press Association. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
3. "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. Federal Writers' Project 1939.
6. Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Tennessee, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
7. "About Us". UTDailyBeacon.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
8. "US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee". Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
9. "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)". Wikimedia Commons.
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. Merriam, Lucius Salisbury (1893). Higher Education in Tennessee. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 170. OCLC   2980902.
13. "The Hustler Now Fully Digitized and Available to Alumni and Researchers around the Globe". Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
14. "The Editors of The Hustler". Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
15. "Newspapers on Microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives > J | Tennessee Secretary of State". sos.tn.gov. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
16. "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture". Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
17. Holzer, Harold (February 2015). President Lincoln Assassinated. 415: Library of America. ISBN   978-1598533736.
18. "Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, Newspaper Published, Dies at 96". New York Times. April 20, 2017.
19. Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.
20. "Titles in County: perry, tennessee". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
21. "About The daily Memphis avalanche. (Memphis [TN]) 1866–1885". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
22. "About Memphis daily appeal. (Memphis, TN) 1847–1886". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
23. "About Memphis daily commercial. (Memphis, TN) 1889–1891". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
24. "About Memphis morning news. (Memphis, TN) 1902–1904". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
25. "About The news scimitar. (Memphis, TN) 1907–1926". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
26. Summer, David (October 8, 2017). "Nashville Banner". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Tennessee Historical Society . Retrieved February 11, 2019.
27. Farmer, Blake (July 24, 2013). "Journalists Lament Nashville City Paper's Impending Closure". Nashville Public Radio . WPLN . Retrieved February 11, 2019.
28. "About Nashville Union and American". Library of Congress.
29. "About Tennessee staatszeitung. volume (Nashville, TN) 1866-187?". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
30. "The Union flag. [volume]". The Union Flag. ISSN   2331-2912 . Retrieved December 9, 2021.
31. "About Wochenblatt der Tennessee staatszeitung. (Nashville, TN) 1867-1867". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
32. "Department of Journalism". University of Memphis. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

Bibliography

• S. N. D. North; United States Department of the Interior (1884). "Catalogue of Periodical Publications: Tennessee". History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. OCLC   1850475. (+ List of titles 50+ years old)
• "Press of East Tennessee". East Tennessee: Historical and Biographical. Chattanooga: A.D. Smith & Co. 1893. pp. 157–172. hdl:2027/wu.89077948958. ISBN   9781403500816.
• James T. Haley, ed. (1895), "Newspapers: Tennessee", Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Mind and matter, Nashville: Haley & Florida, hdl:2027/inu.30000029292855, OCLC   219597043
• "Tennessee". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. pp. 985+. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a – via HathiTrust.
• "Tennessee". American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. pp. 935+. hdl:2027/umn.31951001295695n.
• Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Writers of Tennessee". Tennessee: A Guide to the State. American Guide Series. New York: Viking Press. pp. 145–154. OCLC   2479491.
• Thomas D. Clark (1948). Southern Country Editor. Bobbs-Merrill. OCLC   525858. (Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Tennessee)
• G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: Tennessee". Guide to the Study of United States Imprints . Harvard University Press. p.  881. ISBN   978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about newspapers)
• Jack Mooney, ed., A History of Tennessee Newspapers (1996)

External links

• Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Tennessee", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
• Glenn A. Himebaugh. "Publishing". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture . (Includes information about newspapers)
• "News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Tennessee". DMOZ . AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
• 19th Century Newspapers Database, Nashville: Tennessee Secretary of State . (Digitized issues)
• Newspapers on Microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville: Tennessee Secretary of State. (Searchable by locale)
• Bibliography of Tennessee Bibliographies: Newspapers, Nashville: Tennessee Secretary of State
• "Tennessee". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review.
• "Historical Newspapers: Tennessee Newspapers". Research Guides. University of Memphis Libraries.
• "Tennessee Newspapers". Historical U.S. Newspapers Online. Library Guides. Ohio: Bowling Green State University. Newspapers that are freely available on the Internet
• "Southeast". Historical African American Newspapers Available Online. Subject Guides. Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist College Library. (Includes Tennessee newspapers)
• International Coalition on Newspapers. "Newspaper Digitization Projects: United States: Tennessee". Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.
• University of Florida. "Tennessee". NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville.
• "Tennessee". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997.
• "Tennessee Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999.
• "United States: Tennessee". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 18, 2001.