130-Year-Old Paper Inks Final Edition
From Times Wire Reports
Employees at the 130-year-old Chattanooga Times emptied their desks and said their goodbyes while putting out the morning newspaper’s final edition. The Times has merged with its afternoon rival, the Chattanooga Free Press. The first edition of the combined Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press comes out Tuesday morning. Chattanooga, once the home of fiercely competitive family-owned newspapers, had been the last Tennessee city with two dailies and one of 53 U.S. cities with at least two newspapers.
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