John Seigenthaler, the legendary former editor and publisher of The Tennessean, succumbed this morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 86. A lifelong Nashvillian, Seigenthaler rose through a ...

More than 200 white men with clubs converged on the Greyhound station spewing curse words and hatred as two hours of violence met Nashville's Freedom Riders in Alabama in May 1961. John Seigenthaler, ...

When a call came to The Tennessean offices on Oct. 5, 1954, that a man was preparing to jump off the Shelby Street Bridge in downtown Nashville, a young John Seigenthaler grabbed his notebook and was ...

Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988. Jon Bon Jovi helped save a woman, but the history of life ...

Egerton once called Seigenthaler "the foremost journalist in Tennessee history." In addition to his contributions at The Tennessean, Seigenthaler also served as the first editorial director of USA ...

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center announced it will provide the sponsorship of the Nashville performance of ONCE to the Newseum Institute's First Amendment Center in honor of John Seigenthaler, who ...

John Seigenthaler bought his ink by the barrel, and he goes to his grave having exercised more unrivaled power — and having carried a broader portfolio — than any other single figure in the past ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the John F. Kennedy administration, died Friday ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It has been one year since John Seigenthaler, a writer, journalist and prominent defender of the first amendment, died at the age of 86. Seigenthaler was a citizen of ...

"NBC Nightly News" weekend anchor John Seigenthaler has left the network after 11 years when his contract wasn't renewed. By Paul J. Gough, The Associated Press NEW YORK — “NBC Nightly News” weekend ...

Jon Bon Jovi helped save a woman, but the history of life saving acts on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge dates back 70 years, when John Seigenthaler did the same. In a video posted by Metro ...