Chattanooga Times Free Press
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The July 27, 2005 front page of the
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) WEHCO Media, Inc.
Publisher Tom Griscom[1]
Editor Tom Griscom
Language English
Headquarters 400 East 11th Street
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403
 United States
Website timesfreepress.com

The Chattanooga Times Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metro Chattanooga region of Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's major newspapers.

History[edit]

The paper was created in the late 1990s following the merger of the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News-Free Press. The Times was once owned by Adolph Ochs, who later owned The New York Times, and was controlled by his decedents until 1999, when it was acquired by Walter E. Hussman, Jr., who had bought the Chattanooga News-Free Press the previous year. The merged newspaper is owned by WEHCO Media, Inc.[2]

The Times Free Press is unusual among U.S. newspapers in that it runs two editorial pages, one staunchly liberal, the other staunchlyconservative, reflecting the editorial leanings of the previous standalone Times and Free Press.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press had its 10th Anniversary in January 2009. The newspaper has subscribers in Chattanooga, Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia. The North Georgia front page is different from Chattanooga's front page.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Chattanooga Times Free Press Masthead". Chattanooga Times Free Press. 1999. Retrieved 2007-03-18. 
  2. ^ "WEHCO Media website". Retrieved 2009-05-24. 

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