Cleveland Daily Banner

The Cleveland Daily Banner is a three day weekly newspaper published in Cleveland, Tennessee. Founded in 1854, it is the longest-running newspaper in Bradley County, and one of the oldest newspapers in the state.[4]

Cleveland Daily Banner
Front page of the January 17, 2016 issue of the Cleveland Daily Banner.
Type[Three day weekly]][1]
Owner(s)Wells Newspapers[2]
Founder(s)Robert McNelley
PublisherRalph Baldwin [3]
EditorRalph Baldwin
Associate editorGwen Swiger, Rick Norton
News editorRick Norton
Sports editorRichard Roberts
Founded1854
Political alignmentNone
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1863
Relaunched1865
Headquarters1505 25th Street NW
Cleveland, Tennessee 37311
Websitewww.clevelandbanner.com

The newspaper was founded as the Cleveland Banner, a Democratic newspaper by editor Robert McNelley (pronounced "McAnnelley"), and published its first edition on May 1, 1854. McNelley, who was a supporter of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was arrested by Federal troops in the fall of 1863, and the newspaper ceased publication. The newspaper returned on September 16, 1865 under McNelley's leadership.[5]

Initially headquartered downtown, it moved to its current offices on 25th Street in January 1970.[4]

The two associate editors, Rick Norton and Gwen Swiger, have been with the newspaper for a combined period of more than 50 years. The Gwen Swiger/Rick Norton Scholarship for Journalism and Communications, designed for students in Bradley County Schools and Cleveland City Schools, was announced on May 10, 2018 on a day designed in their honor by County Mayor D. Gary Davis and Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland. The scholarship is being administered by the Community Foundation of Cleveland/Bradley County, and was established by Banner staff writer Brian Graves.[6]

References
  1. "Cleveland Daily Banner". The Bradley News. Cleveland, Tennessee. 2006. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
  2. "Alabama newspaper owner Carmage Lee Walls Sr. dies". Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  3. "Contact Us". clevelanddailybanner.com. Cleveland Daily Banner. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  4. Norton, Rick (11 June 2014). "Banner 160th saluted Friday". Cleveland Daily Banner. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  5. Snell, William R. (1986). Cleveland the Beautiful. Williams Printing Company. pp. 28–29.
  6. "Swiger/Norton Journalism Scholarship". clevelandbradleyfoundation.org. Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County. February 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-15.


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