List of newspapers in Tennessee explained

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

Daily and nondaily newspapers

TitleLocaleYear est.FrequencyPublisher/parent companyNotes
Advertiser NewsSpring HillWeekly GateHouse Media
Ashland City TimesAshland CityWeekly
Buffalo River ReviewLindenWeekly or bi-weekly
Camden ChronicleCamdenWeekly
Chattanooga CourierChattanoogaWeekly or bi-weekly
Chattanooga PulseChattanoogaWeekly or bi-weekly
Chattanooga Times Free Press[1] Chattanooga1869DailyBegan as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press
Chester County IndependentHendersonWeekly
Citizen TribuneMorristown1966[2] Daily
Cleveland Daily BannerCleveland1854Daily
Commercial Appeal, TheMemphis1840DailyGannett Company
Covington LeaderCovingtonWeeklyname changed to The Leader in 2007
Crockett Times, TheCrockett CountyWeekly
Crossville ChronicleCrossvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
The Daily BeaconKnoxville1965[3] Weekly Student-run at the University of TennesseeSuccessor to The Orange and White
The Daily Herald Columbia1850DailyGateHouse Media
Daily News, TheMemphisDaily
Daily News Journal, TheMurfreesboroDailyGannett Company
Daily Post AthenianAthens1838
Democratic-Union, TheLawrenceburg1884bi-weekly
Dresden EnterpriseDresden1883WeeklyMagic Valley Publishing
Dyersburg State GazetteDyersburg
Eagleville TimesEaglevilleWeekly or bi-weekly
El Crucero NewspaperNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Elizabethton StarElizabethtonWeekly or bi-weekly
Elk Valley TimesFayettevilleWeekly or bi-weekly
FarragutpressFarragutWeekly or bi-weekly
Gallatin News Examiner, TheGallatinWeekly
Gallatin Newspaper, TheGallatinWeekly or bi-weekly
Grainger TodayGrainger CountyWeekly
Greenville Sun, TheGreenevilleDaily
Grundy County HeraldTracy CityWeekly or bi-weekly
Herald & TribuneJonesboroughWeekly or bi-weekly
Herald-ChronicleWinchesterWeekly or bi-weekly
Herald-CitizenCookevilleDaily
Jackson Sun, TheJacksonDailyGannett Company
Jasper JournalJasperWeekly or bi-weekly
Johnson City PressJohnson CityWeekly or bi-weekly
Kingsport Times-NewsKingsportDaily
KingstonSprings.orgKingston SpringsWeekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville Daily SunKnoxvilleDaily
Knoxville Focus, TheWeekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville News SentinelKnoxville1886DailyGannett CompanyBegan as the Sentinel
La Prensa LatinaMemphisWeekly or bi-weekly
LaFolette PressLaFoletteWeekly or bi-weekly
Lawrence County AdvocateLawrenceburg1986Bi-weekly
Leaf-ChronicleClarksville1808DailyGannett Company
Lebanon DemocratLebanonDaily
Lee ClarionClevelandWeekly or bi-weekly
Manchester TimesManchesterWeekly or bi-weekly
Maryville Daily TimesMaryvilleDaily
McNairy County NewsSelmerWeekly or bi-weekly
Memphis Daily NewsMemphisWeekly or bi-weekly
Memphis FlyerMemphisWeekly or bi-weekly
Memphis Tri-State DefenderMemphis1951[4] Weekly or bi-weekly
Monroe County Advocate & DemocratSweetwaterWeekly or bi-weeklyAdams Publishing Group[5]
Mt. Juliet ChronicleMount JulietWeekly or bi-weekly
Mountain Press, TheSevierville
Murfreesboro PostMurfreesboroWeekly
Murfreesboro VisionMurfreesboroWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville City PaperNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville DispatchNashvilleBefore 1865[6] Daily
Nashville LedgerNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Medical NewsNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville PrideNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville SceneNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Times and True UnionNashville1862[7] Daily
Newport Plain TalkNewportWeekly or bi-weeklyAdams Publishing Group
Oak Ridger, The Oak RidgeDailyGateHouse Media
Out & About NewspaperNashvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Paris Post-IntelligencerParisDaily
Portland SunPortland, TennesseeWeekly or bi-weekly
Roane County NewsKingstonWeekly or bi-weekly
Rutherford Reader, TheMurfreesboroWeekly or bi-weekly
Savannah CourierSavannahWeekly or bi-weekly
Sewanee Mountain MessengerSewaneeWeekly or bi-weekly
South Pittsburg HustlerSouth PittsburgWeekly or bi-weekly
Southern StandardMcMinnvilleWeekly or bi-weekly
Tennessee Star JournalPigeon ForgeWeekly or bi-weekly
Tennessee TribuneNashville1992Weekly or bi-weekly
Tennessean, TheNashville1907DailyGannett CompanyBegan as Nashville Whig in 1812; later became Nashville American[8]
Times GazetteShelbyvilleDaily
Tirade MediaMurfreesboroWeekly or bi-weekly
Tullahoma News and GuardianTullahomaDaily
Union City Daily MessengerUnion CityDaily
Vanderbilt Hustler, TheNashville1888[9] [10] [11] Weekly or bi-weeklyStudent-run at Vanderbilt University
Weakley County PressMartinWeekly or bi-weekly
Williamson HeraldFranklinWeekly
Wilson PostLebanonWeekly or bi-weekly
Winchester Herald-ChronicleWinchesterWeekly or bi-weekly

Defunct

TitleLocaleYear est.Year ceasedNotes
Afro – American SentinelJackson18901891?[12]
Brownlow's WhigKnoxville18491871Began in 1839 in Elizabethton
Chattanooga Blade[13] Chattanooga
Chattanooga Daily Rebel Chattanooga[14]
Chattanooga Evening NewsChattanooga1888Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999
The Chattanooga StarChattanooga19071908
Chattanooga Times Chattanooga18691999[15]
The Commercial BulletinJackson1880
Knoxville GazetteKnoxville17921818
Knoxville JournalKnoxville1991
Knoxville Negro World[16] Knoxville
Linden MailLinden1890s[17] 1910s
Linden TimesLinden18801883
Memphis Avalanche Memphis18661885[18]
Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis18471886[19]
Memphis Daily Commercial Memphis18891891[20]
Memphis Daily ScimitarMemphis1881Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926
Memphis Free Speech Memphis1888
Memphis Morning NewsMemphis19021904[21]
Memphis Post Memphis18661869
Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis19261983[22]
Memphis World Memphis19311972
Nashville AmericanNashville
Nashville Banner Nashville18761998[23]
The Nashville City Paper Nashville20002013[24]
Nashville Globe Nashville19061960
Nashville Union and AmericanNashville18531875Also published as the Daily Union and American and Nashville Union and Dispatch[25]
The Perry CountianLinden1924s1978Merged with the Buffalo River Review
Republican BannerNashville1837?1875Merged with the Nashville Union and American to form The American
Review AppealFranklin1813
Tennessee StaatszeitungNashville1866187?[26]
The Union FlagJonesborough18651873[27]
Wochenblatt der Tennessee StaatszeitungNashville18671867[28]

See also

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Members . Tennessee Press Association . Knoxville . March 21, 2017 .
  2. Web site: About Us. CitizenTribune.com. August 3, 2020.
  3. Web site: About Us. UTDailyBeacon.com. May 4, 2022.
  4. Web site: Washington DC . . Library of Congress . US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee . March 21, 2017 .
  5. Web site: About Adams Publishing Group. AdamsPG.com. February 8, 2020.
  6. Web site: "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 .
  7. Web site: "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 .
  8. Book: The South in the Building of the Nation . Southern Historical Publication Society . Richmond, VA . 1909 . Southern Press . 402–436 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 . Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers . 7 . 2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 .
  9. Book: Merriam, Lucius Salisbury . 1893 . Higher Education in Tennessee . U.S. Government Printing Office . 170 . 2980902.
  10. Web site: The Hustler Now Fully Digitized and Available to Alumni and Researchers around the Globe . . Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries . July 10, 2024 .
  11. Web site: The Editors of The Hustler . . Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries . July 10, 2024.
  12. Web site: Newspapers on Microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives > J Tennessee Secretary of State . 2018-07-10 . sos.tn.gov . en.
  13. Web site: Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture . March 21, 2017 . Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press .
  14. Book: Holzer . Harold . President Lincoln Assassinated . February 2015 . Library of America . 978-1598533736 . 415.
  15. News: 20 April 2017 . Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, Newspaper Published, Dies at 96 . New York Times.
  16. Book: The Afro-American Press and Its Editors . Irvine Garland Penn . Irvine Garland Penn . The Afro-American Press and Its Editors . Willey and Co. . Massachusetts . 1891 .
  17. Web site: Titles in County: perry, tennessee . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . 4 August 2022.
  18. News: About The daily Memphis avalanche. (Memphis [TN]) 1866–1885 ]. 10 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  19. News: About Memphis daily appeal. (Memphis, TN) 1847–1886 . 15 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  20. News: About Memphis daily commercial. (Memphis, TN) 1889–1891 . 15 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  21. News: About Memphis morning news. (Memphis, TN) 1902–1904 . 15 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  22. News: About The news scimitar. (Memphis, TN) 1907–1926 . 15 May 2017 . Library of Congress.
  23. Web site: Summer . David . 2017-10-08 . Nashville Banner . 2019-02-11 . Tennessee Encyclopedia . Tennessee Historical Society.
  24. News: Farmer . Blake . 2013-07-24 . Journalists Lament Nashville City Paper's Impending Closure . 2019-02-11 . . WPLN.
  25. Web site: About Nashville Union and American . Library of Congress.
  26. News: About Tennessee staatszeitung. volume (Nashville, TN) 1866-187? . 7 April 2017 . Library of Congress.
  27. News: The Union flag. [volume]]. The Union Flag . 2021-12-09. 2331-2912.
  28. News: About Wochenblatt der Tennessee staatszeitung. (Nashville, TN) 1867-1867 . 7 April 2017 . Library of Congress.
  29. Web site: Department of Journalism . University of Memphis . March 22, 2017 .

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