About Us

Jones Media is a family-owned business headquartered in Greeneville, Tennessee.  With its subsidiaries, Jones Media forms an integrated media enterprise that provides information exchange through community newspapers, specialty publications, travel & tourism guides, brochure distribution, and mobile telephone promotional services.

The Company's flagship newspaper is The Greeneville Sun, a daily newspaper with total readership of approximately 40,000.  The Company also owns The Daily Post-Athenian, a daily newspaper serving McMinn County, Tennessee with total readership of approximately 25,000.  High Country Media is a subsidiary that publishes five community newspapers in Boone, North Carolina and surrounding areas, including The Mountain Times.  Touring Publications, based in Sevierville, Tennessee, serves the travel and tourism markets of the southeastern U.S. with its specialty publications, tourism guides, hotel coupon books, brochure distribution and mobile telephone promotional services.  

Overall, the Company's operations include twelve community newspapers and nine travel/tourism guides.  In each of its markets, the Company publishes the dominant community newspaper with business histories dating back as far as 1848.