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NashvillePost.com is an online news service covering business, politics and sports in the Nashville metropolitan area. It is locally owned and available by subscription.
NashvillePost.com competes with other daily news media in the Middle Tennessee area by pledging to offer a truly local approach to business, political and sports coverage, and does not offer the level of non-local coverage found in Gannett-owned daily newspaper The Tennessean, the weekly Nashville Business Journal (owned by the American City Business Journals chain) and other media outlets operated by out-of-town corporations. Nashville Post writers contributed the business news that once appeared in The City Paper. Its journalists seek to break major news stories involving Nashville-area business, politics and sports.
Bill Carey and David A. Fox conceived NashvillePost.com in 1999 and began publishing early in 2000; both were former business reporters for The Tennessean. They secured venture capital funding from Solidus Co., a locally owned company whose other investments include The Documentary Channel, small-town newspaper owner American Hometown Publishing Inc., stock market analysis firm New Constructs LLC and publicly held restaurant chain J. Alexander's Inc. Carey left NashvillePost.com at the end of 2000.
In 2001, NashvillePost.com acquired the monthly magazine Business Nashville, which was renamed as Nashville Post magazine and later reconceived, with a statewide focus, as Business Tennessee. In 2005, NashvillePost.com ceased publishing online as Fox departed to work with a hedge fund and run for a position on Nashville's school board, to which he was elected in August 2006. After three months, however, Solidus decided to revive the online service under a new operating team consisting of former Tennessean business journalist Richard Lawson, former political operative Ken Whitehouse, journalist/author E. Thomas Wood and the first full-time publisher at NashvillePost.com, Todd Staff.
In 2006, the new team rolled out a revamped website while breaking numerous business and political stories that attracted local attention. The news service brought a lawsuit against the Tennessee Lottery over its refusal to release records related to the firing of a senior executive following allegations of sexual harassment, and in May 2006, a Nashville judge ordered the state-sponsored lottery to turn over the documents.
Between May 2006 and May 2007, monthly pageviews at NashvillePost.com rose by more than 80 percent, according to statistics published by the news service.
On January 15, 2008, NashvillePost.com announced that it had been acquired during a significant acquisition spree by SouthComm, Inc., a regional niche media company created and majority-owned by Solidus Co.
Since the SouthComm acquisition, NashvillePost.com has received a second facelift and launched a daughter product called Post Politics devoted to up-to-the-minute coverage of local, state, and occasionally national politics and one called Post Business that aggregates locally relevant business news. In 2014 a third blog was added PostSports following the closure of another SouthComm property, The City Paper.
In March 2010, Nashville Post Magazine was relaunched with a circulation of 15,000 copies.
Geert De Lombaerde serves as NashvillePost.com editor, with William Williams (a member of the original staff of the aforementioned The City Paper, the Post sister publication that ceased operations in August 2013 after a nearly 13-year run) the managing editor. The two have a combined 35-plus years of experience in the Nashville print media community.
Media sales and marketing industry veteran Amy Mularski, previously publisher of then-SouthComm-owned Kansas City Pitch, was named Post publisher in December 2017. Mularski is also publisher of Post sister publications Nashville Scene and Nfocus.
In May 2018, the Nashville Scene and the Nashville Post were purchased by the Freeman Webb Company, a company co-founded by Bill Freeman and Jimmy Webb which owns and manages "more than 16,000 apartment units and 1 million square feet of office space" in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia and Mississippi.[1]
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External links[edit]
NashvillePost.com website
Post Politics website
Post Business website
August 2006, July 2006 and May 2007 reports on pageview trends and top stories at NashvillePost.com
Nashville Scene column praising NashvillePost.com scoops on troubles at fractional aircraft ownership firm FractionAir, June 2006
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