Chattanooga Times Free Press history

In 1878, 20-year-old Adolph Ochs borrowed money and bought half interest in the struggling morning paper.

In 1892, the paper's staff moved to the Ochs Building on Georgia Avenue at East Eighth Street, which is now the Dome Building.

In 1896, Ochs entrusted the management of the paper to his brother-in-law Harry C. Adler when he purchased The New York Times (circulation 20,000). Ochs remained publisher of the Chattanooga Times.

In 1933, Roy Ketner McDonald launched a free Thursday tabloid, delivered door to door, featuring stories, comics, and advertisements for his stores.

In 1956, Charles L. Bartlett of the Washington Bureau of The Chattanooga Times won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for articles leading to the resignation of the secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott.

He bought the Davenport Hosiery Mills building at 400 E. 11th St in 1966, and competition resumed between the two papers.

In 1977, staff photographer Robin Hood of the Chattanooga News-Free Press received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

In 1980, the Times and the News-Free Press entered into a new joint operating agreement.

In 1990, after leading the paper for 54 years, McDonald died at age 88.

In 1998, Hussman bought the Free Press.

The first edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press was published on January 5, 1999.