Change in Chattanooga

Jules Feeney

Jules Feeney covers growth and the local impacts of the Trump administration for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Before moving to Tennessee, Feeney investigated a North Carolina hospital system for the Guardian US as a freelance reporter and covered climate change and solutions for the Guardian's West Coast news desk as an editorial intern. While receiving a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Feeney reported on education, religion, and campus protests. Before becoming a reporter, Feeney worked as a deckhand on a commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. He has an undergraduate degree in religion from Colorado College.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Times Free Press is a for-profit newspaper that has served its community for more than a century and a half, since 1869 when the Chattanooga Daily Times was created. The paper serves readers in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia with the mission of building community connections and providing fact-based journalism that informs and empowers our readers.