That's why their press deadlines are so early. And Memphis is printed in Jackson. Both Memphis and Nashville sold their downtown buildings and are moving to 'burbs.

So they are going to truck printed papers from Knoxville to Nashville every day and waste several hours of news, besides creating a monumental environmental waste stream?!

Glad I bailed back when the Sentinel was just a basic Republican paper for a mostly Republican audience.

It's been sold off for a lot. I think they're leaving building in a few months?

As a relatively recent Gannett layoffee (shut up, I know it's not a word), I can say that is exactly the message they're sending their journalists. Basically, they want reporters to file stories as quickly as possible for the web, but those stories might not see print for two or three days. They don't care. Clicks matter; print readers don't.

They don't want reporters covering nighttime events, including public meetings, and if they do, the reporters know anything they report likely won't be in the next day's print version.

One of the weirdest manifestations of that was the lede story in the Monday, Oct. 22, edition. It was a recap of the first two days of early voting, which started the previous Wednesday. Thing is, by the time the story came out in print, four days of early voting had passed, not two, so the story was hopelessly out of date. That tells me the story was filed during the day on Friday using Wednesday and Thursday numbers, and probably posted online in a timely fashion, but no one updated it for print over the weekend. And this was the lede print story for the day.

For those of us who worked there after Gannett took over, it wasn't surprising. I don't know what they do now, but at the time I was laid off in April 2017, only one news reporter worked on Saturday and only one news reporter worked on Sunday. There was an editor on call both days, but they weren't required to go into the office unless there was a big breaking story. If they cut the staff much further, which is their obvious intent with the buyout offers, I don't know how they can publish a print newspaper that contains any appreciable local content seven days a week.

Bottom line is, Gannett wants to get out of the print newspaper business but can't do it yet. They will eventually, though, and they're doing everything they can to make is sooner rather than later. Like my co-publisher Jesse, I am bearish on print as a medium for daily news.

It would be one thing if Gannett didn't suck so badly at digital. But suck, they do.

Don't think it will happen. It is the standard USA Today formula website.

What I love at KNS is when I click to go to an article, it comes up then immediately drops/scrolls down to show an ad and I have to scroll to see the article.

Rachel,

It doesn't matter anymore what anyone at the News Sentinel wants to do or doesn't want to do. Almost all decisions are made elsewhere.

The decision to kill the copy and design desks at the News Sentinel was not made in Knoxville. The decision to blow off election results for print was not made in Knoxville. The decision to offer buyouts to the most experienced journalists at the News Sentinel was not made in Knoxville. I could go on and on, but you get my drift.

Gannett is a very top-down company and always has been.

The Tennessean says, "Our journalists will cover Election Day with unmatched vigor and depth."

"....so follow them on Twitter."