TriCities.com

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TriCities.com
TriCities.com (Tennessee & Virginia) news website logo.png
Type of business Joint venture
Type of site
 News website
Available inEnglish
Founded2003
Dissolved 2012
Area served Tri-Cities (Tennessee–Virginia)
Owners Bristol Herald Courier and WJHL-TV
URL tricities.com (now redirects to heraldcourier.com )

TriCities.com was an online source for news and information in the Tri-Cities (Johnson City, TN; Kingsport, TN; Bristol, TN-VA) area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. The website debuted in June 2003, and unified two previous news websites for the region, wjhl.com and BristolNews.com.

Contents

In 2010, the Bristol Herald Courier working with TriCities.com won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the highest honor in American journalism, for "illuminating the murky mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwest Virginia, spurring remedial action by state lawmakers." [1]

Location

TriCities.com operations were based out of the WJHL-TV News Channel 11 building located at 338 East Main Street in Johnson City, TN. TriCities.com also had an office based out of the Bristol Herald Courier building located at 320 Bob Morrison Blvd in Bristol, VA. [2]

Staff

TriCities.com was maintained by a staff of full-time employees as well as a host of other contributors from the Bristol Herald Courier and News Channel 11 (WJHL-TV).

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Pulitzer Prizes | Journalism". pulitzer.org.
  2. ↑ "CONTACT". Bristol Herald Courier. Retrieved May 11, 2024.


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