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About the KNS Media Group
Serving East Tennessee
The KNS Media Group is a growing and diverse multimedia company that produces quality products every day of the year. From the award-winning News Sentinel that’s served the region for more than 100 years, to a growing number of websites, magazines, community newspapers and special events, the KNS Media Group is unmatched in delivering valuable information and services to East Tennessee.
Vision, Mission and Values
Awards
History
Directions
The E.W. Scripps Company
Vision, Mission and Values
Vision:
To be the number one media source in our market.
Mission:
Working together to provide valued information products and services that exceed customer expectations!
Our Core Values:
High Performance:
We are responsive to market and technological changes. We expect and recognize high achievement.
Integrity:
We are honest and truthful in our words and actions.
Community:
We are advocates of the greatest good; we serve the public. We reflect the community, its people, its culture, its diversity and its values.
Customer:
Financial success depends on providing outstanding service to current and potential readers, advertisers and other consumers of our products and services.
Co-workers:
People are our greatest resource. Co-workers treat each other with respect and support each other’s efforts to succeed.
Awards
Journalism:
Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment and The National Headliner Award for Public Service
In competition open to all American media outlets, the News Sentinel was selected for these awards honoring service to the First Amendment.
2007 Golden Press Card Awards
The News Sentinel won 21 Awards of Excellence at the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Golden Press Card Awards. In addition, Sentinel reporter J.J. Stambaugh took home the highest honor of the evening, the Golden Press Card, for his series, “Homeless, not hopeless.”
In Defense of a Free Press
In 1999, the Sentinel received a national honor from the AP Managing Editor’s Association “for devotion to overcoming obstacles in the path of a free flow of information and contributing through extraordinary effort to the public’s right to know.”
Online:
Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Awards
Knoxnews.com won three Digital Edge Awards in 2008: Best Overall News Site, Best Design and Site Architecture and Most Innovative Visitor Participation (for schoolmatters.knoxnews.com).
RandomThis, a weekly video column, received a Digital Edge Award for Best Use of Interactive Media in 2007.
The newspaper competes in the 75,000 to 250,000 print circulation category. Awards are presented by the New Media Federation of the Newspaper Association of America, the primary trade group for the newspaper industry.
Inland Press Association
The Inland Press Association awarded knoxnews.com the First Place General Excellence Award for newspapers with print circulations over 20,000 at the 2008 New Frontiers Awards.
Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards
The Green Eyeshade Awards is a regional journalism competition recognizing outstanding journalism in 11 southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
In 2007, the KNS Media Group won first place in the Niche Journalism category for GoVolsXtra.com and third place in the Best Use of Multimedia category for the Sweet 15 multimedia package on knoxnews.com.
Design & photography:
Tennessee Press Association
The News Sentinel won 17 awards at the 2007 Tennessee Press Association’s annual design competition, including Best of Show and the highest honor, the Jack Freeland Memorial Award, both given for the Nature Explorers Newspapers in Education Science Curriculum.
Community:
Impact Award
The News Sentinel was awarded the 2007 Impact Award at the Knoxville Chamber Partnership’s third annual Pinnacle Business Awards. The Impact Award is given to a company for displaying a commitment to making East Tennessee a better place to live through the development and support of the community.
Goodwill Corporate Sponsor of the Year
Goodwill Industries, Inc. named the New Sentinel Corporate Sponsor of the Year for 2006.
History
In 1886 publisher John Trevis Hearn founded The Sentinel as an evening newspaper. Hearn is prominent in Knoxville history for changing the way paperboys were paid. Instead of a weekly salary, Hearn sold the papers to boys who resold them to the public for their own profit.
A competing newspaper, the Knoxville News, was established in 1921 by Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard. The News did not align itself with any political party, and soon gained a reputation as an active voice against corruption and fiscal irresponsibility. The News criticized the state's law against teaching evolution and helped establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was instrumental in modernizing the state constitution, abolishing the justice of the peace system, obtaining statewide compulsory voting registration, and fighting segregation in schools and public facilities.
The News absorbed The Sentinel in 1926 and became The Knoxville News-Sentinel, which continued as an afternoon paper until 1986. In that year it switched to a morning publication. The News Sentinel has established a record for being a leading influence behind the passage of strong shield and open meetings laws in Tennessee.
In 1994 the News Sentinel was among the first newspapers to establish a Web site. The newspaper now manages a multitude of award-winning internet sites offering multimedia content.
The News Sentinel’s press and facility, completed in 2002, are among the most modern newspaper facilities in the world. With the move to the new press in 2002, the newspaper redesigned the look of the paper and dropped the hyphen in its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel – today, the cornerstone of the KNS Media Group.
From the award-winning News Sentinel that’s served the region for more than 100 years, to a growing number of websites, magazines, community newspapers and special events, the KNS Media Group is unmatched in delivering valuable information and services throughout East Tennessee.
Directions
The News Sentinel’s main facility is located at 2332 News Sentinel Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37921. Our main phone number is 865-523-3131.
From I-40 Westbound
From I-40 Eastbound
From Hwy 129 (Alcoa Hwy)
From 1-75 Southbound
From Oak Ridge
From Clinton
From UT/Kingston Pike Eastbound
From UT/Kingston Pike Westbound
I-40 Westbound:
Exit 387 – Western Ave./ 17th Street.
Left on 17th Street.
Left on Western Ave.
Continue on Western Ave., crossing Middlebrook Pike/University Ave.
Turn Left on News Sentinel Drive. It is the fifth street on the left (just past Knoxville College St.).
Exit 386A – Middlebrook Pike/University Ave.
Right on Middlebrook Pike.
Right on Proctor St. (third street on the right, just under the I-40 viaduct).
Right on News Sentinel Drive (first street on the right).
Alcoa - Highway 129:
Get in the right lane and veer right as if getting onto I-40 East.
Exit – Western Ave./17th Street. The exit is just prior to hitting I-40 East.
Left at stop sign at bottom of exit ramp onto 21st St.
Left at traffic light onto University Ave./Middlebrook Pike.
Continue on Middlebrook under the I-40 & Hwy 129 viaducts.
Right on Proctor Street, after passing under second viaduct.
Right on News Sentinel Drive (first street on the right).
I-75 Southbound:
West on I-640.
Exit 1 - Western Ave.
Left onto Western Ave.
Go through 6 traffic lights (2 miles) to News Sentinel Drive. You will pass Ridgebrook Apartments.
Right on News Sentinel Drive (across from Malcom Martin Park).
Or
I-75 to I-275 South.
Take I-40 West exit.
Exit 387 – Western Ave./17th Street.
Left on Western Ave.
Continue on Western Ave, crossing Middlebrook Pike/University Ave.
Left on News Sentinel Drive. It is the fifth street on the left (just past Knoxville College St.).
From Oak Ridge:
South on Oak Ridge Hwy (Hwy 62).
Continue south over I-640. Oak Ridge Hwy becomes Western Ave. (Hwy 62).
Go 2 miles, through 6 traffic lights to News Sentinel Drive. It is just past Ridgebrook Apartments.
Right on to News Sentinel Drive (across from Malcom Martin Park).
From Clinton:
South on Clinton Highway.
Right on Pleasant Ridge (behind Walmart).
Follow Pleasant Ridge to Western Ave.
Left on Western Ave.
Go 1.8 miles to News Sentinel Drive. It is just past Ridgebrook Apartments.
Right on to News Sentinel Drive (across from Malcom Martin Park).
OR
South on Clinton Highway to I-640 West.
Go west on I-640.
Exit 1 – Western Ave.
Left on Western Ave.
Go 2 miles through 6 traffic lights to News Sentinel Drive. It is just past Ridgebrook Apartments.
Right on to News Sentinel Drive (across from Malcom Martin Park).
From UT - Kingston Pike Eastbound
Left on 17th Street.
Left on Western Ave. at the sixth traffic light (including the flashing light).
Through next traffic light (University Ave. / Middlebrook Pike intersection).
Left on News Sentinel Drive. It is the fifth street on the left (just past Knoxville College St.).
From UT - Kingston Pike Westbound
Right on 17th St.
Left on Western Ave. at the sixth traffic light (including the flashing light).
Through next traffic light (University Ave. / Middlebrook Pike intersection).
Left on News Sentinel Drive. It is the fifth street on the left (just past Knoxville College St.).
The E.W. Scripps Company
The E.W. Scripps Company is a diverse media concern, which owns the KNS Media Group as well as newspapers in 16 other markets, 10 broadcast TV stations and five cable and satellite television programming networks including HGTV, DIY, Fine Living, GAC and the Food Network. Scripps also owns online search and comparison shopping services such as Shopzilla.com and operates United Media, which is the worldwide licensing and syndication home of Peanuts, Dilbert and 150 other features and characters.
The Scripps motto is, “Give light and the people will find their own way.” This motto is signified in the lighthouse emblem, which is an integral part of the Scripps and News Sentinel logos.
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