Greeneville Sun The Revenue and Competitors

Greeneville SunThe Greeneville Sun and its related predecessors have been “Greene County’s hometown newspaper” since 1879. The Sun is a fourth-generation, family-owned newspaper. In 1916, Edith O’Keefe Susong acquired The Greeneville Democrat and spent the next several years working with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Henry O’Keefe, and a small staff to grow that publication to become the dominant newspaper in the Greeneville community. Along the way, The Democrat acquired two rival newspapers, eventually becoming what is known today as The Greeneville Sun. Mrs. Susong was a very active force in the newspaper and in her local community. She served as publisher of the Greeneville Democrat from 1916 to 1920, publisher of The Greeneville Democrat-Sun from 1920 to 1930, and publisher of The Greeneville Sun from 1930 until her death in 1974. Mrs. Susong (known affectionately as “EOS”) and her mother, Quincy Marshall O’Keefe (“QMO”), are the only mother-daughter team in the Tennessee newspaper Hall of Fame.