Host Demetria Kalodimos talks with former Nashville Banner reporter Tam Gordon. The two are seated at microphones, recording for the podcast Banner & Company
Former Banner reporter Tam Gordon talks with host Demetria Kalodimos. Credit: Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner

For our premiere episode, we broke from our usual one-on-one format to bring you an abbreviated — but nonetheless colorful and complicated — history of the Nashville Banner: a look at the days of a two-newspaper city, from people who lived it, day in and day out, in the storied newsroom at 1100 Broadway.

This episode was first broadcast in April 2024.

Guests

  • Parker Toler, paperboy
  • Mary Hance, reporter aka Ms. Cheap
  • Kay West, writer aka Betty Banner
  • Robert Churchwell Jr., son of Robert Churchwell, the first Black reporter in Nashville
  • Tam Gordon, reporter
  • Bruce Dobie, reporter
  • Larry McCormack, photographer

Credits

  • Host: Demetria Kalodimos
  • Producers: Steve Haruch and Andrea Tudhope

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Further reading

Andrea Tudhope is the news editor for the Nashville Banner, where she also oversees the audio wing. An award-winning multimedia journalist, Andrea spent the past decade working in public radio, from reporter to newscaster to editor. As part of the founding leadership team for America Amplified, a national public media community engagement initiative, she launched a national talk show and co-wrote and edited a playbook on community-powered journalism. She came to Nashville to launch WPLN’s first-ever daily show, This Is Nashville, where she was executive producer.

Steve Haruch is the senior producer. An award-winning journalist, editor and producer, he has worked previously at the Nashville Scene and WPLN, and his writing has appeared everywhere from The New York Times to NPR's Code Switch. He edited the books Greetings From New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became 'It' City and People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley.