List of newspapers in Tennessee

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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
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

U.S. newspapers

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Tennessee, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "Members". Knoxville: Tennessee Press Association. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "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. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Tennessee, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
  7. "About Us". UTDailyBeacon.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  9. 9.0 9.1 "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. 15.0 15.1 "Newspapers on Microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives > J | Tennessee Secretary of State". sos.tn.gov. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 "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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  18. "Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, Newspaper Published, Dies at 96". New York Times. 20 April 2017.
  19. Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 "Titles in County: perry, tennessee". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  21. "About The daily Memphis avalanche. (Memphis [TN]) 1866–1885". Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  22. "About Memphis daily appeal. (Memphis, TN) 1847–1886". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  23. "About Memphis daily commercial. (Memphis, TN) 1889–1891". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  24. "About Memphis morning news. (Memphis, TN) 1902–1904". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  25. "About The news scimitar. (Memphis, TN) 1907–1926". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  26. Summer, David (2017-10-08). "Nashville Banner". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  27. Farmer, Blake (2013-07-24). "Journalists Lament Nashville City Paper's Impending Closure". Nashville Public Radio. WPLN. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  28. "About Nashville Union and American". Library of Congress.
  29. "About Tennessee staatszeitung. volume (Nashville, TN) 1866-187?". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  30. "The Union flag. [volume]". The Union Flag. ISSN 2331-2912. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  31. "About Wochenblatt der Tennessee staatszeitung. (Nashville, TN) 1867-1867". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  32. "Department of Journalism". University of Memphis. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

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