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 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 Chattanooga 1869 Daily Began as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press Citizen Tribune Morristown 1966 Daily Cleveland Daily Banner Cleveland 1854 Daily Commercial Appeal, The Memphis 1840 Daily USA Today Co. 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 Weekly Student-run at the University of Tennessee Successor to The Orange and White The Daily Herald Columbia 1850 Daily USA Today Co. Daily News, The Memphis Daily Daily News Journal, The Murfreesboro Daily USA Today Co. Daily Post Athenian Athens 1838 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 Elizabethton Star Elizabethton Weekly or bi-weekly Elk Valley Times Fayetteville Weekly or bi-weekly Gallatin News Examiner, The Gallatin 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 Jackson Daily USA Today Co. Jasper Journal Jasper Weekly or bi-weekly Johnson City Press Johnson City Weekly or bi-weekly Kingsport Times-News Kingsport Daily Knoxville Daily Sun Knoxville Daily Knoxville Focus, The Weekly or bi-weekly Knoxville News Sentinel Knoxville 1886 Daily USA Today Co. 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 Clarksville 1808 Daily USA Today Co. 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 Weekly or bi-weekly Monroe County Advocate & Democrat Sweetwater Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group 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 NashvilleBefore 1865Daily 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 Nashville1862Daily Newport Plain Talk Newport Weekly or bi-weekly Adams Publishing Group Oak Ridger, The Oak Ridge Daily USA Today Co. Out & About Newspaper Nashville Weekly or bi-weekly Paris Post-Intelligencer Paris Daily Portland Sun Portland 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 Weekly or bi-weekly Tennessean, The Nashville 1907 Daily USA Today Co. Began as Nashville Whig in 1812; later became Nashville American Times Gazette Shelbyville Daily Tullahoma News and Guardian Tullahoma Daily Union City Daily Messenger Union City Daily Vanderbilt Hustler, The Nashville 1888 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 NotesAfro – American SentinelJackson18901891? Brownlow's Whig Knoxville 1849 1871 Began in 1839 in Elizabethton Chattanooga Blade Chattanooga Chattanooga Daily Rebel Chattanooga Chattanooga Evening News Chattanooga 1888 Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999The Chattanooga StarChattanooga19071908Chattanooga Times Chattanooga18691999The Commercial BulletinJackson1880 Knoxville Gazette Knoxville 1792 1818 Knoxville Journal Knoxville 1991 Knoxville Negro World Knoxville Linden Mail Linden1890s1910sLinden Times Linden18801883Memphis Avalanche Memphis18661885Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis18471886Memphis Daily Commercial Memphis18891891 Memphis Daily Scimitar Memphis 1881 Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926 Memphis Free Speech Memphis 1888 Memphis Morning NewsMemphis19021904 Memphis Post Memphis 1866 1869 Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis 1926 1983 Memphis World Memphis 1931 1972 Nashville AmericanNashville Nashville Banner Nashville 1876 1998 The Nashville City Paper Nashville20002013 Nashville Globe Nashville 1906 1960 Nashville Union and American Nashville 1853 1875 Also published as the Daily Union and American and Nashville Union and DispatchThe Perry Countian Linden1924s1978Merged 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 Tennessee StaatszeitungNashville1866187? The Union Flag Jonesborough18651873Wochenblatt der Tennessee StaatszeitungNashville18671867
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 Southern Adventist University School of Journalism and Communication, in Collegedale Tennessee literature
References
Bibliography (+ List of titles 50+ years old)
(Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Tennessee) (Includes information about newspapers) Jack Mooney, ed., A History of Tennessee Newspapers (1996)
External links
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