The Onion covers Knoxville slackers

The Onion has a Knoxville datelined story today headlined: “Incompetent Staff Feels Underappreciated.” KNOXVILLE, TN–Taking a break from surfing the web, going out for multiple cups of coffee, and missing important work deadlines, employees at Winthrop Media complained once again...

Knoxnews, two online producers, online editor win awards

Knoxnews won the Award of Excellence for Overall Web site in the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists Goldne Press Card Awards, which were presented Friday night at a dinner at the Foundry.. Online producer Lauren Spuhler won the Online...

The curse of Barbara Bain's dog

You'd think regular reader of O'Reilly Radar would have gotten over their emotional attachment to news on paper years ago. But, no.

New Frontier Awards

Got some great news on Tuesday. From an Inland Press Association news release.

On Being There

Or “good enough” revisited. We had a video go viral this week. We had a story on Sunday about a Knoxville porn starlet who goes by the name of Barbie Cummings.

The signs are everywhere

Visiting the North Carolina county I mainly grew up in, I was struck by how far-reaching the headlines of about population trends can be. The signs were everywhere – in Spanish – in Asheboro, the county seat of Randolph County....