12-08-2005 10:47 AM — At the urging of a large number of subscribers, The Nashville Post Co. is re-launching its online news service, NashvillePost.com. The company has recruited an all-star team of business and political journalists who will work in partnership with WKRN News 2 to broaden NashvillePost.com's reach across the Midstate.Starting Dec. 12, NashvillePost.com will resume real-time publishing of the intelligently researched and written articles that Middle Tennessee’s most successful leaders depend on when making business decisions. The expanded editorial team will enable the “new and improved” service to provide a breadth of coverage unprecedented in the six-year history of the company.“Like our many subscribers, I found that NashvillePost.com provided the economically valuable content I need to run my business,” said company Chairman Townes Duncan, president of Solidus Co., majority owner of Nashville Post Co. “As a co-founder of NashvillePost.com, I’m relieved to be able to assure the many supporters of the site that it is coming back better than ever.”The core of the new journalism team consists of Richard Lawson, E. Thomas Wood and Ken Whitehouse. Todd Staff, who has served as a senior marketing executive or consultant with several area companies including American Healthcorp, has joined the company as publisher. Co-founder and former editor David A. Fox will serve as a director of Nashville Post Co.Highlights of NashvillePost.com's editorial team include:
Richard Lawson will cover real estate, economic development, tourism and other beats for the Post. He has been writing about these topics in Nashville for nine years, first at the Nashville Business Journal and more recently at The Tennessean. Lawson is widely regarded as the city’s most knowledgeable and tenacious reporter on the beats he covers. Last month, he and a colleague broke the news that Nissan would move its North American headquarters to the Nashville area.
E. Thomas Wood will cover health care, banking and other business news. A Nashville native, he has reported for The Tennessean, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, HealthLeaders and other media outlets over the past two decades. As president of Eagle Communications in the late 1990s, he led Business Nashville and Nashville Life magazines to a national editorial award and a financial turnaround. Wood has had a parallel career as an independent historian and was co-editor of the multi-author book Nashville: An American Self-Portrait published in 2001.
Ken Whitehouse will cover politics for the new NashvillePost.com. Born and raised in Nashville, Whitehouse has worked in political campaigns of Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Phil Bredesen as well as other campaigns for elected officials in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii and the United Kingdom. He worked for U.S. Sen. Harlan Mathews and Gov. Ned McWherter. He has also been a columnist for Business Tennessee magazine and an account executive with the Nashville public relations firm McNeely, Pigott & Fox.
The upgraded news service also is pleased to announce it will provide content to WKRN News 2. The ABC affiliate will be able to select news stories produced by NashvillePost.com for broadcast to the Nashville market of just under 1 million households. NashvillePost.com’s Richard Lawson will make on-air appearances to present NashvillePost.com stories and to provide analysis. NashvillePost.com subscriptions made before the service went on hiatus August 31, 2005, will be honored to their original expiration date plus four months. New and renewing subscribers will be able to stay on top of events shaping Nashville’s business and political landscape for $9.75 a month. NashvillePost.com is an online news service delivering breaking and in-depth content on Nashville-area business, political and civic affairs. Updated throughout each business day, the service is read by business executives, attorneys, financiers, elected officials, nonprofit managers and others in need of valuable insight on Midstate business. It can be found at www.nashvillepost.com.
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