Jim Young Reporter celebrating 1 year of independent news reporting!

One year ago, I started this news blog page and the facebook page Jim Young Reporter in order to continue bringing my extensive news background,knowledge and experience to the local community.

In the first 12 months over 275,000 individual page views have been counted to this blog while Facebook has counted well over half a million impressions of the stories posted and shared there.

Thanks to our readers for their support and continued interest in quality and accurate reporting on news from Crossville and especially coverage of the Crossville city council.  We are the only Crossville news outlet consistently sharing video of city council meetings.

Some of the scoops you read here over the last year included the only story published so far on the recent First Amendment lawsuit filed by a local man against Crossville and a former councilman.
Blankenship Lawsuit Story 

No other local media has yet to interview J.R. Blankenship, the man who brought the suit after he was targeted by Jesse Kerley for distributing "unsigned fliers" under an ordinance later removed by council vote after it was determined that such an ordinance had been declared unconstitutional in 1960.

Blankenship Interview

We were the only news outlet to share video of the theft of signs from a Mockingbird Drive house by city water department manager Jerry Kerley and the only outlet to discover and share video from the Crossville airport that showed Jerry Kerley and his accomplice just before the theft and immediately after driving his truck onto the Crossville airport where the signs were later recovered.
Sign Theft Caught on Video
Airport Security Video Raises Questions on sign theft

Jim Young Reporter was the first with complete details of the lawsuit filed against Crossville and Jesse Kerley by former interim police chief Rod Shoap, Also, you read here first about the complaint filed against interim city manager Steve Hill by recreation director Tammy French along with the first release of the instant messages and emails that lead to one city employee being fired.
Shoap files $200,000 lawsuit against Crossville and councilman Kerley

Jim Young Reporter was the first to share a copy of the security camera video that showed the incident between councilmen Pete Souza and Jesse Kerley in June 2016 following a work session.  The incident later resulted in an assault charge filed against Mr. Kerley.  That charge was dismissed following a hearing in General Sessions court.
Security video of altercation between Souza and Kerley.

Thanks again for reading if you have any questions or news tips, please email us at jimyoungreporter@gmail.com

How Many Scoops Do You want?? Jim Young Reporter had them!

How Many Scoops do you want?

During January 2017, You got the information you needed from the best free source of news in Crossville!  Jim Young Reporter had those scoops including:

• First with complete details on the lawsuit filed against the city and Jesse Kerley by Rod Shoap one week before other media.
• First with report on personnel complaint filed by Tammie French against then interim city manager Steve Hill.
• First to post complete internal city text messages that the personnel complaint by Tammie French revealed during personnel board meeting.
• First with details on special called meeting set to fire interim city manager Steve Hill.
• Exclusive interview with Crossville marketing director Billy Loggins following release of Ipswitch messages and emails.
• The ONLY Crossville media that reported a missing 5 year old child in real time January 30, 2017.
• The only Crossville media that reported the recreation department reorganization by interim manager Hill may have been in violation of city charter.  

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The Jim Young Reporter blog page has now received over 98,000 page views in just a few months. We are working hard to keep the citizens informed about the news without whitewashing any of it. We encourage our readers to invite their friends to like the Facebook page and share the stories that they feel are important. Your support and help are greatly appreciated.

Some of the important information you read on our pages:

1. Exclusive video of the assault hearing on Councilman Jesse Kerley and first to report that the charge was dismissed
2. The only news source to obtain the video of the theft of signs at the Mockingbird Drive residence.
3. Exclusive interview with Crossville councilwoman Pamala Harris on her view of the council “circus.”
4. The first and only news source to publish the documents that were removed from interim city manager Steve Hill's personnel file at his order from his time as director of Parks and Recreation.
5. First news source to report Rod Shoap has applied for the city manager position.  

Important stories you missed if you depend on other news outlets. Stay informed with Jim Young Reporter!

This week, if you got your news from Jim Young Reporter you would have read these important stories that you didn't get from any other media outlet!

1. The very first media outlet in Tennessee to report that retired judge John Turnbull's house was attacked by serial arsonist in Livingston, Tennessee.
2. The only local news media that presented photos of two council member's vehicles parked outside of Beef and Barrel following a council called meeting.
3. The only local media that reported on the recommendations of the city's consultant after interim city manager Steve Hill removed items from his own personnel file.
4. Photos of J. H. Graham election signs in the yard of former councilman Wendell Kerley across from city hall.

Are you getting the important news you need to be seeing? The news you want to read is at www.jimyoungreporter.blogspot.com or on Facebook @jimyoungreporter.