A Look Back at the Old Banner — From People Who Were There
For our premiere episode, we break from our one-on-one format to bring you an abbreviated — but nonetheless colorful and complicated — history of the Nashville Banner: a look back at the days of a two-newspaper city from people who lived it, day in and day out, in the storied newsroom at 1100 Broadway.
Guests:
Parker Toler, paperboy
Mary Hance, reporter aka Ms. Cheap
Kay West, writer aka Betty Banner
Robert Churchwell Jr., son of Robert Churchwell, the first Black reporter in Nashville
Tam Gordon, reporter
Bruce Dobie, reporter
Larry McCormack, photographer
Host: Demetria Kalodimos
Producers…
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