The Tennessean
| The Tennessean
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| description | daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Gannett (USA) |
| Headquarters | Nashville |
| First edition | May 12, 1907 |
| Frequency of publication | working days |
| Sold edition | 95,311 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Stefanie Murray |
| Web link | www.tennessean.com |
The Tennessean is an American daily newspaper in the state of Tennessee . The headquarters are in Nashville .
history
The newspaper has its origins as the Nashville Whig , a weekly newspaper, the first edition of which appeared on September 1, 1812. It was founded by the two brothers Moses and Joseph Norve to deliver a weekly newspaper to what was then Nashville, which had around 1,200 residents. There were a total of 14 acquisitions and mergers until the Nashville Tennessean was founded in 1907 .
The first edition of Nashville Tennessean was printed on Sunday May 12, 1907. The newspaper was founded by Colonel Luke Lea , a 28-year-old lawyer and politician. At that time there were already two well-established Nashville newspapers: the Nashville American , a daily newspaper from 1894 to 1910, and the Nashville Banner , which existed from 1876 to 1998.
In 1910 the Nashville Tennessean publishers bought a controlling stake in Nashville American and published a joint paper called The Tennessean American . Since the newspaper could no longer hold up in 1911, it was discontinued. Some former employees then founded the Nashville Democrat , which was then acquired by the Nashville Tennessean in 1913.
In 1931, Luke Lea and his son were charged with their role in the economic crisis . Lea was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 1933. The Nashville Tennessean had to file for bankruptcy. The company was placed under state supervision; nine editors led by federal court appointed trustee Littleton J. Pardue, an Ashland City attorney , took the lead. The newspaper quickly gained popularity but was still in the red.
In 1935 the Reconstruction Finance Corporation acquired a large portion of the newspaper's outstanding bonds. She eventually sold them to Paul Davis, president of the First American National Bank of Nashville . Still battered by financial troubles, the paper was sold at auction on January 7, 1937 for $ 850,000 to Silliman Evans, Sr. , a former Washington correspondent for the Texas newspaper Fort Worth Star-Telegram . Evans, Sr. had built a reputation as an influential capital correspondent. At that time the circulation was 76,275.
Silliman Evans, Sr. took over editorial management on August 17th. He managed to bring the newspaper into profit within just 55 days. Evans entered into a cooperation with the then editor of the Nashville Banner, James Stahlmann, to merge both newspaper offices in the new offices on 1100 Broadway. Evans, Sr. also founded the Newspaper Printing Corporation. As part of the cooperation, the Nashville Tennessean had to cease its evening edition, the Nashville Banner had to cease publication of its Sunday edition. The agreement ran from 1937 to February 20, 1998, when the Nashville Banner completely ceased printing. Although the newspapers shared a building and staff, they had different owners and orientations throughout.
On June 2, 1955, Silliman Evans, Jr. took over the presidency of the newspaper. When his father suddenly died of a heart attack on June 26th, he was elected editor. In 1961, Silliman Evans, Jr. died of a heart attack at the age of 36. His mother took ownership of the Nashville Tannessean, and a few months later his brother Amon Carter Evans became CEO . In 1962, John Seigenthaler, Sr. Editor of the Nashville Tannessean.
In 1972 the newspaper was renamed from "The Nashville Tennessean" to "The Tennessean".
In 1972 the Gannet Cooperation acquired the Nashville banner from the Stahlmann family. In 1979 the paper was sold to a group of investors for $ 25 million. Gannet also bought the Tennessean from the Evans family for about $ 50 million. John Seigenthaler became CEO, editor and editor of the Tennessean, now owned by the Gannet Cooperation.
According to the historian E. Thomas Wood, the Tennessean under Seigenthaler had a liberal orientation. Seigenthaler left his post in 1991.
In September 1998 the newspaper started its internet presence.
newspaper
The newspaper appears in 39 counties in central Tennessee and 8 counties in southern Kentucky .
The Tennessean is the oldest and largest-circulation newspaper in Nashville and the second largest in Tennessee. It appears seven days a week. The newspaper specializes in local news, sports, business, jobs and events. The daily circulation is 95,311, the Sunday edition has a circulation of 212,839.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of 'The Tennessean' stretches back to region's early settlement | The Tennessean | tennessean.com. (No longer available online.) August 8, 2015, archived from the original on August 8, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Wendell Givens: Ninety-Nine Iron: The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days . University of Alabama Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8173-5062-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ About The Nashville American. (Nashville [Tenn.]) 1894-1910. National Endowment for the Humanities; the Library of Congress, accessed September 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Education & Research | Nashville Public Library. In: library.nashville.org. Retrieved September 1, 2016 .
- ^ Silliman Evans Sr. | Entries | Tennessee Encyclopedia. In: tennesseeencyclopedia.net. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
- ^ The Tennessean: 108 years and counting. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
- ^ The Tennessean History. In: www.liquisearch.com. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
- ^ Nashville Tennessean - daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee USA with local news and events. In: www.mondotimes.com. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .