Knoxville News Sentinel

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Knoxville News Sentinel/knoxnews.com
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, Tennessee 37921 United States
Circulation	119,172 Daily 150,147 Sunday [1]

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. Its award-winning Web site is knoxnews.com

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 publisher is Bruce Hartmann and its editor is Jack McElroy, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News. Other management include Deputy Managing Editor Tom Chester, Managing Editor for Multimedia Jack Lail, Assistant Managing Editor Michael Apuan, Assistant Managing editor for news and business David Keim, Director of Photography Tracey Trumbull and graphics editor Dan Proctor. Some staffers include photographers Michael Patrick, J. Miles Cary, Amy Burgess, Clay Owen, Saul Young and Joe Howell; 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, Talid Magdy and Chloe White.

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"

The Quentin Tarantino film Grindhouse features a fictitious publication billed as the "Lebanon News-Sentinel" and set in the old-fashioned typeface and black-and-white printing of a lower-budget, small-town newspaper. The title attributes the News Sentinel name (in its former, hyphenated punctuation) to the newspaper of the small town Lebanon, Tennessee, whose actual newspaper is the Lebanon Democrat. This is likely homage to Tarantino's hometown of Knoxville and his roots in Tennessee.