Thanks to you, Daily Memphian defies odds, reaches third birthday
Daily Memphian CEO Eric Barnes (middle) hosts an episode of “Behind the Headlines” on WKNO-TV in 2019. (Daily Memphian file)
Eric Barnes
Eric Barnes is CEO of The Daily Memphian, host of Behind the Headlines on WKNO-TV, host of The Sidebar on WYXR 91.7, and the author of four novels.
The Daily Memphian has become the largest digital-only, local news site in the country. Being the biggest was never our goal. We just wanted to do all we could to provide quality local news to the Memphis area on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
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