Welcome to the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame

The Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame was established in 1966 as a joint project of the Tennessee Press Association and the University of Tennessee. The Hall of Fame honors those who have made an outstanding contribution to Tennessee Newspaper journalism or, through Tennessee journalism, to newspaper journalism generally, or who have made an extraordinary 
contribution to their communities and region, or the state, through newspaper journalism.

George Roulstone
1767-1804
Knoxville Gazette
Knoxville Register
Genius of Liberty, Knoxville
Impartial Observer, Knoxville
Frederick S. Heiskell
1786-1882
Knoxville Gazette
Western Monitor and Religious
Observer, Knoxville
Knoxville Register
William G. Brownlow
1805-1877
The Tennessee Whig, Elizabethton
The Jonesboro Whig
The Knoxville Whig
Benjamin F. Dill
1814-1866
The Memphis Appeal
William B. Scott
1821-1885
The Colored Tennessean, Nashville
The Maryville Republican
Franc M. Paul
1833-1890
Chattanooga Rebel
The Knoxville Tribune
Chattanooga Dispatch
Albert Roberts
1835-1895
Republican Banner, Nashville
Montgomery Mail
Chattanooga Rebel
The Nashville American
Southern Lumberman, Nashville
William Rule
1839-1928
The Knoxville Whig
The Knoxville Chronicle
The Knoxville Journal
Edward B. Stahlman
1843-1930
Nashville Banner
Edward W. Carmack
1858-1908
Columbia Herald
Nashville American
Nashville Democrat
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
The Tennessean, Nashville
Adolph S. Ochs
1858-1935
Knoxville Chronicle
Louisville Courier Journal
Knoxville Tribune
Chattanooga Dispatch
The Chattanooga Times
The New York Times
George H. Armistead
1861-1950
Nashville American
New York World
Nashville Daily News
The Review Appeal, Franklin
Nashville Banner
Ida B. Wells
1862-1931
Free Speech, Memphis
New York Age
Conservator, Chicago
Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney
1865-1926
Graphic, Press-Eagle, Pine Bluff, Ark. Avalanche, Scimitar, Memphis
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
News, New York
New York American
Examiner, Chicago
Quincy Marshall O'Keefe
1866-1958
The Greeneville Democrat-Sun
James I. Finney
1877-1931
McMinnville New Era
Nashville American
The Tennessean, Nashville
The Daily Herald, Columbia
Ralph L. Millett
1878-1954
Dallas Dispatch
Memphis Press
The Penny Bee, Memphis
Memphis News-Scimitar
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Henry G. Rice
1880-1954
Atlanta Journal
Cleveland News
The Tennessean, Nashville
New York Tribune
New York Herald-Tribune
James P. Alley
1885-1934
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
Edward J. Meeman
1889-1966
Evansville Press
The Knoxville News
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Edith O'Keefe Susong
1890-1974
The Greeneville Democrat
The Greeneville Democrat-Sun
The Greeneville Sun
Elder Calvin Gregory
1891-1957
Nashville Banner
Macon County Times, Lafayette
W. Percy Williams
1892-1970
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News & Times Gazette
Florence (Ala.) Times News 
Paris (Tenn.) Post-Intelligencer
Ledger & Times, Murray, Ky.
Fulton (Ky.) Daily Leader
Silliman Evans
1894-1955
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Tennessean, Nashville
Chicago Sun
Bert Vincent
1896-1969
Kansas City Star
Evansville Press
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Guy L. Smith Jr.
1898-1968
Bristol Bulletin
Johnson City Staff News
Johnson City Press-Chronicle
The Knoxville Journal
Ralph McGill
1898-1969
Nashville Banner
Atlanta Constitution
Tom Little
1898-1972
The Tennessean, Nashville
Loye W. Miller
1899-1979
The Evansville (In.) Press
The Cleveland (Oh.) Press
The Knoxville News
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
John W. Finney
1900-1965
The Daily Herald, Columbia
The Maury Democrat, Columbia
Guy Easterly
1901-1963
The Middlesboro (Ky.) Daily News
The Cumberland Courier, Pineville, Ky.
The LaFollette Press
The Advance-Sentinel, Jellico
Roy K. McDonald
1901-1990
Free Press, Chattanooga
The Chattanooga News-Free Press
Horace V. Wells Jr.
1906-1994
Clinton Courier
Anderson County News
Clinton Courier News
The Tennessean
James H. Armistead
1908-1987
The Review Appeal, Franklin
The Tennessean, Nashville
Nashville Banner
Don Whitehead
1908-1981
LaFollette Press
Harlan (Ky.) American
Harlan (Ky.) Enterprise
Knoxville Journal 
Associated Press
New York Herald-Tribune
Knoxville News-Sentinel
John M. Hightower
1909-1987
Knoxville News-Sentinel
The Associated Press
Santa Fe New Mexican
Tom Siler
1909-1988
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Associated Press 
Chicago Sun
Chicago Sun-Times
Morris L. Simon
1911-1994
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Tullahoma News and Guardian
Fayetteville Elk Valley Times
Manchester Times
Winchester Herald-Chronicle
Nathan G. Caldwell
1912-1985
The Trenton Daily Bulletin
The Evening Tennessean
The Tennessean
Carl A. Jones Jr.
1912-1992
Johnson City Press
Lebanon Democrat
Herald and Tribune
Erwin Record
The Tomahawk
The Covington Leader
The Hartsville Vidette
 
Julian Harriss
1914-1989
Knoxville News-Sentinel
University of Tennessee Public Relations Director
Cal Alley
1915-1970
Kansas City (Mo.) Journal
Nashville Banner
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
Glenn E. McNeil
1917-1996
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Tennessee Press Association
Nancy R. Petrey
1931-1994
The Newport Plain Talk
 

This page was last updated on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 .