AUDIO: Lee Anderson On How He Started In The Newspaper Business

  • Friday, June 27, 2025
Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson

Lee Stratton Anderson is one of Chattanooga’s most famous individuals working at the News Free Press as a reporter, editor and publisher for 70 years.

The longtime News Free Press editor became interested in reporting while in the sixth grade at Glenwood Elementary School (where a Memorial Hospital parking lot is now.) Mr. Anderson started at the newspaper at the age of 16. He died June 16, 2016, at the age of 90 and was buried with full military honors at the Chattanooga VA National Cemetery.

Mr. Anderson told broadcaster Earl Freudenberg how it all started in a radio interview in February, 1990.

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