The ''Knoxville News Sentinel, also known as Knox News,'' is a daily newspaper in

Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the stat ...

, United States, owned by the Gannett Company.

History

The newspaper was formed in 1926 from the merger of two competing newspapers: ''The Knoxville News'' and ''The Knoxville Sentinel''. John Trevis Hearn began publishing ''The Sentinel'' in December 1886, while ''The News'' was started in 1921 by Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard. The two merged in 1926, with the first edition of ''The Knoxville News-Sentinel'' appearing on November 22 of that year. The editor from 1921 to 1931, Edward J. Meeman, later was sent to Memphis to edit the since defunct '' Memphis Press-Scimitar''. In 1986, the ''News-Sentinel'' became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the ''

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'', becoming an evening paper. The ''Journal'' ceased publication as a daily 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''. In April 2016, th
News Sentinel announced
it had become part of Gannett, as a part of the USA Today Network. The News Sentinel was added to the nation's largest newspaper company with more than 200 local dailies and USA Today.

Management

Joel Christopher, formerly of

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, was appointed the executive editor at Knoxville News Sentinel in Jan. 2019. Christopher's appointment came after the retirement of executive editor Jack McElroy in early 2019. McElroy, formerly of the ''

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'' served the News Sentinel as its top editor for 17 years. Frank E Rosamond Sr. served as the newspaper's last president after leaving the company with McElroy in 2018.

Knox News

Knox News, the digital brand of the News Sentinel an
Knoxnews.com
has won many national awards, including winning three 2008

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s from the Newspaper Association of America for best overall news website, most innovative user-participation and best site design.

Spelling-bee sponsorships

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"

References

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External links

* * Other internet properties owned by the ''Knoxville News Sentinel'' *
Knoxville Information Guide
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Knoxville Book of Lists
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University of Tennessee sports news coverage

From Papers to Pixels
- an effort by the Knox County Public Library system to create a digital archive of the ''News Sentinel'' spanning the years 1922 to 1990 {{Gannett, state=collapsed 1886 establishments in Tennessee Mass media in Knoxville, Tennessee Newspapers published in Tennessee Gannett publications Daily newspapers published in the United States Publications established in 1886