Knoxville News Sentinel

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Knoxville News Sentinel
The July 27, 2005 front page of the Knoxville News Sentinel
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	E. W. Scripps Company
Publisher	Bruce R. Hartmann
Editor	Jack McElroy
Founded	1886 (as The Sentinel)
Headquarters	2332 News Sentinel Drive Knoxville, TN 37921-5761 United States
Circulation	121,917 Daily 153,779 Sunday [1]
Website: KnoxNews.com/

The Knoxville News Sentinel is a newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA covering general news. The newspaper is owned by E.W. Scripps Company.

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. In 2002 the paper dropped the hyphen from its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel. Its publisher is Bruce Hartmann and its editor is Jack McElroy, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News. Other key management includes Assistant Managing Editor Michael Apuan, photo editor Tracey Trumbull, graphics editor Dan Proctor, business editor David Keim and news editor Tom Chester. Key staffers include photographers Michael Patrick, Cathy Clarke and Saul Young; writers John Adams, Larisa Brass, Mike Strange and Jamie Satterfield. Online editor is Jack Lail.

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

• 2005 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (pdf). Burrelles Luce. Retrieved on 2006-11-08.
• Lester, Connie L.. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: Knoxville News-Sentinel. Tennessee Historical Society / The University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved on 2006-11-08.
• Scripps Newspapers: Knoxville News Sentinel. The E.W. Scripps Company. Retrieved on 2006-11-08.

[edit] External links

• Knoxville News Sentinel homepage
• Other internet properties owned by the Knoxville News Sentinel
  • Knoxville, TN Information Guide
  • Knoxville520
  • East Tennessee's Best
  • Knoxville Book of Lists
  • Your Hub: Knoxville

[edit] Further reading

• Jack Mooney, A History of Tennessee Newspapers (1996).