The paper is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The newspaper was created in 1926 when there was a merger of two competing newspapers: The Knoxville News and The Knoxville Sentinel. John Trevis Hearn began publishing The Sentinel in December 1886, while The News was started in 1921 by Robert P.

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