Rick Thomason is new president of Tennessee Press Association

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Rick Thomason, publisher of The Kingsport Times News and the Johnson City Press, is the new president of the Tennessee Press Association.

TPA is the trade association of the state’s daily and non-daily newspapers. It is composed of 18 daily newspapers and 113 non-daily newspapers.

Thomason succeeds Daniel Richardson, publisher of the Carroll County News Leader and vice president of Magic Valley Publishing, Inc.

Thomason joined the board of the Tennessee Press Association in 2020. He is a 41-year veteran of the newspaper business. He has served as a general assignment reporter, sports reporter, sports editor, editor of both weekly and daily newspapers, and publisher of both weeklies and daily newspapers. He currently serves as publisher of both the Kingsport Times News and the Johnson City Press and is president of Six Rivers Media, LLC, the parent company of both the Times News and the Press.

He is a graduate of Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a minor in biology and a double minor in chemistry. He is also a graduate of the condensed MBA program at the Media Management Center at Northwestern University.

In his spare time he is an avid reader, photographer and last year took up the sport of kickboxing.

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