Jack D. Lail

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...

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

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

News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy notes the departures late next week of three long-time newsroom folks, Gerry Segroves, Lynn Lewis and Fred Brown.

Didn’t jog as much as normal; did weights instead.

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.

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....

Reading about Louis Rekeyser’s death last week and listening to a special hosted by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo reminded me of an interview I did years ago with Rukeyser’s remarkable father, Merryle S. Rukeyser (Jan. 3, 1897 – Dec. 21, 1988)....