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 Weekly
Linden Weekly or bi-weekly
Camden Weekly
Chattanooga Weekly or bi-weekly
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 Weekly name changed to The Leader in 2007
Crockett Times, The Crockett County Weekly
Crossville Chronicle Crossville Weekly or bi-weekly
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]
Athens 1838[5]
Lawrenceburg 1884 bi-weekly
Dresden 1883 Weekly Magic Valley Publishing
Dyersburg State Gazette Dyersburg
Eagleville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Elizabethton Weekly or bi-weekly
Fayetteville Weekly or bi-weekly
Farragut Weekly or bi-weekly
Gallatin News Examiner, The Gallatin Weekly
Gallatin Weekly or bi-weekly
Grainger County Weekly
Greenville Sun, The Greeneville Daily
Tracy City Weekly or bi-weekly
Herald & Tribune Jonesborough Weekly or bi-weekly
Winchester Weekly or bi-weekly
Herald-Citizen Cookeville Daily
Jackson Sun, The[2] Jackson Daily Gannett Company[6]
Jasper Weekly or bi-weekly
[2] Johnson City Weekly or bi-weekly
Kingsport Times-News Kingsport Daily
Kingston Springs Weekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville Daily
Knoxville Focus, The Weekly or bi-weekly
Knoxville News Sentinel[2] Knoxville 1886[3] Daily Gannett Company[6] Began as the Sentinel
Memphis Weekly or bi-weekly
Weekly or bi-weekly
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 Weekly or bi-weekly
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[7] Weekly or bi-weekly
Monroe County Advocate & Democrat Sweetwater Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group[8]
Mount Juliet Weekly or bi-weekly
Sevierville
Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville City Paper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Before 1865[9] Daily
Nashville Ledger Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Pride Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville Scene Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Nashville 1862[10] Daily
Newport Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group[8]
Oak Ridger, The Oak Ridge Daily GateHouse Media[1]
Out & About Newspaper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly
Paris Daily
Portland, Tennessee Weekly or bi-weekly
Kingston Weekly or bi-weekly
Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
Savannah Weekly or bi-weekly
Sewanee Weekly or bi-weekly
South Pittsburg Weekly or bi-weekly
Southern Standard McMinnville Weekly or bi-weekly
Pigeon Forge Weekly or bi-weekly
Tennessee Tribune Nashville 1992[7] 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]
Shelbyville Daily
Murfreesboro Weekly or bi-weekly
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 Weekly or bi-weekly

Defunct[]

Title Locale Year est. Year ceased Notes
Brownlow's Whig Knoxville 1849 1871 Began in 1839 in Elizabethton
Chattanooga Blade[11] Chattanooga
Chattanooga Evening News Chattanooga 1888 Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999[7]
Knoxville Gazette Knoxville 1792 1818[11]
Knoxville Journal Knoxville 1991[11]
Knoxville Negro World[12] Knoxville
Memphis Daily Scimitar Memphis 1881[3] Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926[7]
Memphis Free Speech Memphis 1888[11]
Memphis Post Memphis 1866 1869
Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis 1926 1983
Memphis World Memphis 1931[11] 1972
Nashville Banner Nashville 1876[3] 1998
Nashville Globe Nashville 1906 1960[11]
Nashville 1853 1875 Also published as the Daily Union and American and Nashville Union and Dispatch[13]
Nashville 1837? 1875 Merged with the Nashville Union and American to form The American
Review Appeal Franklin 1813[5]
The Union Flag Jonesborough 1865 1873[14]

See also[]

U.S. newspapers

References[]

  1. ^ a b c GateHouse Media, LLC, Our Markets: Tennessee, Pittsford, New York, retrieved March 27, 2017
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Members". Knoxville: Tennessee Press Association. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. Vol. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
  4. ^ "About Us". CitizenTribune.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Gannett Co., Inc., Our Brands: Tennessee, McLean, Virginia, retrieved March 27, 2017
  7. ^ a b c d "US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  8. ^ a b "About Adams Publishing Group". AdamsPG.com. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  9. ^ Commons.wikmedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Nashville_Dispatch%22_%22published_daily_(Monday%27s_excepted),_at_No._11_Deaderick_Street_(old_Banner_Office),_by_John_Wallace_%26_Co.%22_1865_ad_in_Polk%27s_Nashville_City_Directory_...1865_(IA_polksnashvilleda00nash)_(page_128_crop).jpg. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ Commons.wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Nashville_Times_and_True_Union%22_anti-slavery_newspaper,_S._C._Mercer,_Editor_1865_ad_in_Polk%27s_Nashville_(Davidson_county,_Tenn.)_City_Directory_..._1865_(IA_polksnashvilleda00nash)_(page_14_crop).jpg. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ a b c d e f "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture". Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  12. ^ Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.
  13. ^ "About Nashville Union and American". Library of Congress.
  14. ^ "The Union flag. [volume]". ISSN 2331-2912. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  15. ^ "Department of Journalism". University of Memphis. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

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