Knoxville News Sentinel
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | E. W. Scripps Company |
| Publisher | Patrick J. Birmingham |
| Editor | Jack McElroy |
| Founded | 1886 (as The Sentinel) |
| Headquarters | 2332 News Sentinel Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37921  United States |
| Circulation | 119,172 Daily 150,147 Sunday [1] |
| ISSN | None |
| OCLC | 12008657 |
| Official website | KnoxNews.com/ |
The Knoxville News Sentinel is a daily newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA covering general news. The newspaper is owned by E.W. Scripps Company. It operates Knoxnews.com, an award-winning news website.
The newspaper began in December 1886 as an evening paper, the Sentinel. In November 1926 the Knoxville News acquired the newspaper and the first edition of The Knoxville News-Sentinel appeared on November 21, 1926.
In 1986 the News-Sentinel became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the Journal, becoming an evening paper. The Journal closed in 1991, when the joint operating agreement between the two papers expired. In 2002 the paper dropped the hyphen from its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel.
The News Sentinel's president and publisher is Patrick J. Birmingham, and its editor is Jack McElroy, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News. Other management includes Director of News Operations Tom Chester, Director of News Innovation Jack Lail, Continuous News Editor/Features, Entertainment, Sundays John North, Director of Photography Paul Efird and graphics editor Dan Proctor. Some staffers include photographers Michael Patrick, J. Miles Cary, Amy Smotherman-Burgess, and Saul Young; writers John Adams, Mike Strange, Drew Edwards and Jamie Satterfield. Knoxnews.com staffers include online editor Jigsha Desai and online producers Lauren Spuhler, Erin Chapin, and Talid Magdy.
Knoxnews.com has won many national awards, most recently winning three 2008 Digital Edge Awards from the Newspaper Association of America for best overall news Web site, most innovative user-participation and best site design.
The News Sentinel has sponsored four winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee:
- 1940: Laura Kuykendall (now Laura Kuykendall Mullins) - "therapy"
- 1960: Henry Feldman - "eudaemonic"
- 1963: Glen Van Slyke III - "equipage"
- 1994: Ned Andrews - "antediluvian"
[edit] References
- "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
- Lester, Connie L.. "The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: Knoxville News-Sentinel". Tennessee Historical Society / The University of Tennessee Press. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=K024. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
- "Scripps Newspapers: Knoxville News Sentinel". The E.W. Scripps Company. http://www.scripps.com/newspaper/newspaper-knoxville-news.html. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
[edit] Further reading
- Jack Mooney, A History of Tennessee Newspapers (1996).
[edit] External links
- Knoxville News Sentinel homepage
- Other internet properties owned by the Knoxville News Sentinel
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