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(Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Tennessee) G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: Tennessee". Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. p. 881. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about newspapers) Jack Mooney, ed., A History of Tennessee Newspapers (1996)
Newport is a city in and the county seat of Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. [10] The population was 6,945 at the 2010 census , [ 11 ] down from 7,242 at the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2018 was 6,801. [ 12 ]
In 2015, over 450 additional historic newspaper titles were added to GenealogyBank's database, dating back to the 1700s and included millions of birth and marriage notices, and news stories. [5] GenealogyBank partnered with FamilySearch [6] in 2015 to digitize thousands of newspaper obituaries. [5]
The first edition of the Kingsport Times was first published on April 27, 1916. [1] The newspaper became the Kingsport Times-News in 1944. [2]On April 19, 2023, the paper announced it would reduce its publishing cycle from seven days to six days a week.
Cocke County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,999. [2] Its county seat is Newport. [3] Cocke County comprises the Newport, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area. [4]
In 1931, Col. Luke Lea and his son Luke Lea, Jr. were indicted for their role in the failure of the Central Bank and Trust Co. of Asheville, North Carolina. On March 3, 1933, the newspaper was placed under federal receivership , and Ashland City attorney and former Tennessean editorial writer Littleton J. Pardue was appointed to direct the paper.
The Daily News of Kingsport, Tennessee was the city's only locally owned newspaper, publishing regularly since 1971 as a daily. [citation needed] External links
The Tri-State Defender is a weekly African-American newspaper serving Memphis, Tennessee, and the nearby areas of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. [2] It bills itself as "The Mid-South's Best Alternative Newspaper". The Defender was founded in 1951 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender.