Our mission
Nashville Post exists to provide breaking news and insight that decision-makers in the Nashville area can bank on. Through our online and print products, we strive to be timely, accurate and relevant, furnishing our subscribers the information they need to thrive in our city’s business and political arenas. We value your time and we take care not to waste it. We value your trust and we put our personal honor on the line when we report the news.
In addition to our original reporting, our Web site includes Post Business and Post Politics, blogs/aggregators that collect items of interest from the business and political arenas, as well Post Data, a collection of public records emanating from Davidson County's real estate and legal sectors.
We are part of SouthComm Inc., a Nashville-based media holding company that also has operations in the Atlanta, Louisville and Cincinnati markets. SouthComm’s other Middle Tennessee niche media products are Nashville Scene, The City Paper, nFocus, Her Nashville and Nashville Medical News. For more info, visit www.southcomm.com.
Our audience
Subscribers to NashvillePost.com and Nashville Post magazine are business executives, investment bankers, health care professionals, attorneys, stockbrokers, lobbyists, public relations executives, venture capitalists, government officials, real estate professionals, public-company managers and business owners.
Our people
Publisher
Tori Hughes
615-844-9410 • thughes@nashvillepost.com
Editor
Geert De Lombaerde
615-301-9243 • 615-260-5790 • gdelombaerde@nashvillepost.com
Geert oversees the online and print operations of Nashville Post and reports on Middle Tennessee's finance sector and public companies. A native of Belgium, he has been in business journalism for more than a decade. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, he began his reporting career at the Business Courier in Cincinnati and came to Nashville to be managing editor of the Nashville Business Journal. He later was named editor of that publication and also has been a consultant at health care public affairs firm Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock.
Managing Editor
William Williams
615-844-9235 • wwilliams@nashvillepost.com
William is a veteran local journalist who joined Nashville Post in October 2011. An original member of our sister publication The City Paper — having started with the daily in October 2000 — he continues his work with The City Paper by coordinating its online and Monday print business sections. William received a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Middle Tennessee State University in 1985 and a master’s degree in print journalism from Chicago-based Roosevelt University in 1989. He has worked in the industry in some manner ever since.
Reporters
Ken Whitehouse
615-244-0864 • kwhitehouse@nashvillepost.com
A Nashville native and seasoned political observer, Ken covers politics and is senior writer for the Post. He has held positions in the political campaigns and administrations of, among others, Vice President Al Gore, Tennessee Sen. Harlan Mathews and Tennessee Governors Ned R. McWherter and Phil Bredesen. He also has been an account executive at McNeely Pigott & Fox. While focused on government and politics, Ken also has reported extensively on white-collar crime in Middle Tennessee as well as the ownership changes at the Nashville Predators. He is a graduate of John Overton High School and Samford University and has done course work at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
J.R. Lind
615-244-7989 x 372 • jrlind@nashvillepost.com
A repeat winner on Jeopardy in the spring of 2010, J.R. covers real estate and development issues for the Post and helms the popular Post Politics blog. Before joining the Post staff, he spent three years at the Lebanon Democrat, where he reported on city, county and state government as well as business, sports and other topics. J.R. was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2006, having served in Illinois, California, Virginia and the United Kingdom.
Philip Nannie
615-844-5500 • pnannie@nashvillepost.com
A Nashville native, Philip covers the legal and venture capital beats. He is a graduate of Harding University, where he received a bachelor's in political science and history, and of Trevecca Nazarene University, where he in 2002 received a master's in education. Previously, Philip worked for the Nashville Business Journal, where he covered beats ranging from commercial real estate and finance to entertainment and sports business.
Walker Duncan
615-844-5554 • 615-429-8155 • wduncan@nashvillepost.com
Also a Nashville native, Walker covers technology, tourism and manufacturing. After beginning with NashvillePost.com as an intern in the summer of 2002, he has spent a large portion of the last 10 years covering the Nashville business community. He has covered the health care, legal and food business sectors, among others. Among his more prominent stories are the murder and conspiracy trials of former Nashville attorney Perry March, the $33 billion leveraged buyout of HCA and litigation surrounding the failed merger of Nashville’s Genesco with sports retailer Finish Line Inc. He has studied at Brown, Vanderbilt and Washington & Lee Universities.
Subscriptions/Customer service
Gary Minnis
615-244-7989 x 308 • gminnis@nashvillepost.com
Conflicts & Disclosure policies
To avoid any appearance that Nashville Post reporting is driven by personal interests, we do not permit editorial employees to individually hold positions in individual stocks of Tennessee-based public companies. Editorial staffers are permitted to own mutual funds. However, if a staffer writes about a mutual fund in which he or she holds shares, appropriate disclosure is made.
