About the Forum

The Tennessee Editorial FORUM is a nonprofit organization of community activists with a wide range of issue areas and journalists working to communicate ideas to the public and stimulate policy debate by tapping into the power of the media.

Over the years, editors have come to recognize the Tennessee Editorial FORUM for well-written, well-researched, and thought-provoking commentary on topics including tax reform , campaign finance , the treaty on the rights of women , the ten commandments .

On average, media packets reach 350,000 households through print and 1 million listeners and viewers through the broadcast media. Commentary from the Tennessee Editorial FORUM regularly appear in Nashville Tennesseean (circ. 190,000) , Knoxville News Sentinel (circ. 119,500) , Chattanooga Times-Free Press (circ. 42,000) , Nashville City Paper (circ. 40,000) , Memphis Tri-State Defender (circ. 31,975) , Johnson City Press (circ. 31,031) , Greenville Sun (circ. 16,000) , Athens Daily Post-Athenian (circ. 12,000) , Fayette County Review (circ. 8,779) , Paris Johnson City (circ. 7,755) . Forum materials also receive significant local use/coverage by broadcast media throughout the state.