The Knoxville Journal

The Knoxville Journal
The Knoxville Journal for Wednesday, April 14, 1886, the first issue bearing this title
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Persis Corporation
Founded1885; 139 years ago (1885)
Ceased publicationDecember 31, 1991 (1991-12-31)
Circulation40,316 (1990)[1]

The Knoxville Journal was a daily newspaper published in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, between 1886 and 1991. It operated first as a morning and then as an afternoon publication.

On December 31, 1991, its last owner, the Persis Corporation of Honolulu, shuttered the paper at the end of its joint operating agreement (JOA) with the larger Knoxville News-Sentinel.

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