Alison Gerber

The Times Free Press is participating in a project designed to help rebuild trust in the media, and it starts with understanding our readers and their perspectives.

Election night usually ends with results. This year will probably be different.

Being stuck at home has converted even the most kitchen-phobic among us into home cooks. And those of us who've long loved to cook have been willing to try new recipes and techniques during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press will no longer display mugshots of everyone arrested in Hamilton County, which the paper has done for the past 10 years on a site called Right2Know.

On Wednesday, March 11, a group of Times Free Press staff members hosted a gathering called Brews & News.

As we deal with the fallout of the coronavirus, we will make some temporary changes to the daily print newspaper. Because numerous sports and entertainment events have been canceled, we simply don't have enough stories to publish a stand-alone Sports section.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press is providing free online access to coronavirus coverage in order for Chattanooga-area residents to have the most up-to-date, fact-based information about the pandemic and its impact on our community.

With the growth of genetic testing, many pet owners are finally learning exactly what breeds make up their beloved dogs.

In the year following the devastation of the Civil War, many Chattanoogans struggled to rebuild and recapture their former success.

For more than two decades, Chattanooga's newspapers have recognized area valedictorians.

If you live in Hamilton County and you expect to have a say in how millions of dollars in taxpayer money is spent on your child's school, you're out of luck.

Chattanooga's got a lot going for it — mountains, a river, a vibrant downtown, not to mention crazy-fast internet.

Hamilton County's public school leaders are engaging in a disturbing pattern of behavior that obstructs attempts by the media and community from accessing public documents.

Journalism's top prizes were awarded Monday, and among the winners was "The Panama Papers," a series of stories that used 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure of offshore tax havens.

On Monday, the Times Free Press published a stand-alone photo (a photo with no story) of two men using leaf blowers, fall leaves flying everywhere. It was a nice photo intended to capture the season. The page designer placed a headline on top of the photo that said, Time to leave. He thought he'd used a cute play on words.

I learned something in study hall this week: It's possible to have a conversation about a touchy subject in a way that can help this community build relationships and tackle hard issues.

Technology allows us to communicate and exchange information at whiplash speeds. But too often, that information isn't credible. It might be biased or just plain wrong, but that's not always apparent.

In 2015, the Chattanooga Times Free Press poured an unprecedented amount of time and energy into researching the roots of and solutions to Chattanooga's economic reality; we made this investment as other regional news outlets were pulling back from long-term reporting projects.

We need your help, readers.

A homicide is defined as the act of one person killing another, whether it's with a gun, knife, fist or something else. It's the word used by law enforcement across Tennessee to record such deaths.