Cleveland Daily Banner

{{Short description|Newspaper in Cleveland, Tennessee}}

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| name = Cleveland Daily Banner

| logo = Cleveland_Daily_Banner_Masthead.jpg

| logo_size = 260px

| image = File:Clevelandbanner 2016-1-17.jpg

| caption = Front page of the January 17, 2016 issue of the Cleveland Daily Banner.

| type = Three day weekly{{cite news|author=|title=Cleveland Daily Banner|url=http://thebradleynews.com/ClevelandDailyBanner.html|work=The Bradley News|location=Cleveland, Tennessee|date=2006|access-date=2007-12-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609194623/http://thebradleynews.com/ClevelandDailyBanner.html|archive-date=June 9, 2007}}

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| owners = Paxton Media Group{{Cite web| agency = Associated Press| title = Alabama newspaper owner Carmage Lee Walls Sr. dies| work = Tuscaloosa News| access-date = 2019-03-13| url = https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20131212/News/605157641}}

| founder = Robert McNelley

| publisher = Joyce Taylor

| editor = Autumn Hughes

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| newseditor = Tim Siniard

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| sportseditor = Joe Cannon

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| foundation = 1854

| political = None

| language = English

| ceased publication = 1863

| relaunched = 1865

| headquarters = 2075 N. Ocoee St. Suite B
Cleveland, Tennessee 37311

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| website = {{URL|clevelandbanner.com}}

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The Cleveland Daily Banner is a three-day weekly newspaper published in Cleveland, Tennessee. Founded in 1854, it is the longest-running and currently only newspaper in Bradley County, and one of the oldest newspapers in the state.{{cite news |last = Norton |first = Rick |title = Banner 160th saluted Friday |newspaper = Cleveland Daily Banner |date = 11 June 2014 |url = http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/25274097/article-Banner-160th-saluted-Friday |archive-url = https://archive.today/20141211171438/http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/25274097/article-Banner-160th-saluted-Friday |url-status = dead |archive-date = 11 December 2014 | access-date = 11 December 2014}}

The newspaper was founded as the Cleveland Banner, a Democratic newspaper by editor Robert McNelley (pronounced "McAnnelley"), and published its first edition on May 1, 1854. McNelley, who was a supporter of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was arrested by Federal troops in the fall of 1863, and the newspaper ceased publication. The newspaper returned on September 16, 1865, under McNelley's leadership.{{cite book|last=Snell|first=William R.|date=1986|title=Cleveland the Beautiful|publisher=Williams Printing Company|pages=28–29}}File:The Cleveland Daily Banner newspaper office in Cleveland, Tennessee, Bradley County 01.jpg

By 1885 the paper had merged with The Polk County News and the Bradley News. The Banner building was destroyed by fire in 1906.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.clevelandbanner.com/site/about.html |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=Cleveland Daily Banner}} Long headquartered downtown, the newspaper moved to new offices on 25th Street in January 1970. On February 13, 2023, the Banner offices moved once again to 2075 N. Ocoee Street following the sale of the Banner to Paxton Media Group.{{Cite web |title=BREAKING: Paxton acquires Cleveland Daily Banner |url=https://www.clevelandbanner.com/stories/breaking-paxton-acquires-cleveland-daily-banner,138426 |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=The Cleveland Daily Banner |language=en}} Printing of the Banner moved to a separate site in Sevierville, Tennessee.{{Cite web |title=Printing of Banner moves to Sevierville |url=https://www.clevelandbanner.com/stories/printing-of-banner-moves-to-sevierville,141951 |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=The Cleveland Daily Banner |language=en}}

The two former associate editors, Rick Norton and Gwen Swiger, were with the newspaper for a combined period of more than 50 years. The Gwen Swiger/Rick Norton Scholarship for Journalism and Communications, designed for students in Bradley County Schools and Cleveland City Schools, was announced on May 10, 2018, on a day designed in their honor by County Mayor D. Gary Davis and Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland. The scholarship is being administered by the Community Foundation of Cleveland/Bradley County, and was established by Banner staff writer Brian Graves.{{cite web|url=https://clevelandbradleyfoundation.org/scholarships/swiger-norton-journalism-scholarship/|title=Swiger/Norton Journalism Scholarship|author=|date=February 27, 2020|website=clevelandbradleyfoundation.org|publisher=Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County|access-date=2020-05-15}}

As of 2025, the paper is printed only on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

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