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==Career==

==Career==

Meeman took his first newspaper job at $4 a week for ''The Evansville Press,'' an afternoon daily of which he later became the editor. ''The Evansville Press'' closed in 1998, but the ''Evansville Courier & Press'' remains the daily newspaper for Evansville. He was subsequently a reporter for the ''Terre Haute (Indiana) Times," a forerunner of the ''Tribune-Star.'' He then joined the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a print syndicate out of [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]],<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=883|title=Edward John Meeman|publisher=''Tennessee Encyclopedia''|date=January 1, 2010|accessdate=May 24, 2015}}</ref> now known as United Media and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.

Meeman took his first newspaper job at $4 a week for ''The Evansville Press,'' an afternoon daily of which he later became the editor. ''The Evansville Press'' closed in 1998, but the ''Evansville Courier & Press'' remains the daily newspaper for Evansville. He was subsequently a reporter for the ''Terre Haute (Indiana) Times''" a forerunner of ''The Tribune-Star.'' He then joined the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a print syndicate out of [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]],<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=883|title=Edward John Meeman|publisher=''Tennessee Encyclopedia''|date=January 1, 2010|accessdate=May 24, 2015}}</ref> now known as United Media and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.

In 1921, the E. W. Scripps Company selected Meeman to edit the ''The Knoxville News,'' a then afternoon daily in [[Knoxville]] in eastern Tennessee. In 1926, ''The News'' joined with ''The Sentinel'' to become ''The Knoxville News Sentinel,'' which became a morning paper in 1986. Meeman had considerable success in Knoxville during the 1920s in both the advertising and circulation realms. Meeman was an early advocate of what became in 1933 the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]], a massive development involving the taming of the swift waters of the Tennessee River and the providing of electric power to isolated sections of a half-dozen area states. He also supported through newspaper articles and columns what became the [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]], which straddles the Tennessee-[[North Carolina]] border and<ref name=bio/> was dedicated in 1940 by [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].

In 1921, the E. W. Scripps Company selected Meeman to edit the ''The Knoxville News,'' a then afternoon daily in [[Knoxville]] in eastern Tennessee. In 1926, ''The News'' joined with ''The Sentinel'' to become ''The Knoxville News Sentinel,'' which became a morning paper in 1986. Meeman had considerable success in Knoxville during the 1920s in both the advertising and circulation realms. Meeman was an early advocate of what became in 1933 the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]], a massive development involving the taming of the swift waters of the Tennessee River and the providing of electric power to isolated sections of a half-dozen area states. He also supported through newspaper articles and columns what became the [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]], which straddles the Tennessee-[[North Carolina]] border and<ref name=bio/> was dedicated in 1940 by [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].