TriCities.com is an online source for news and information in the Tri-Cities (
Johnson City, TN
Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee. John ...
;
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.
In 2010, the ''
Bristol Herald Courier'' working with TriCities.com won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalis ...
, 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."
Location
TriCities.com operations are based out of the
WJHL-TV News Channel 11 building located at 338 East Main Street in
Johnson City, TN
Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee. John ...
. TriCities.com also has an office based out of the
Bristol Herald Courier building located at 320 Bob Morrison Blvd in
Bristol, VA.
Staff
TriCities.com is 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).
Management
Director of Digital Media
*Heather Provencher
Content
Content Coordinator
Sales
Sales and Marketing Assistant
*Trish Sutherland
Awards
2008 Southern Newspaper Publishers Association - Best Web Site, Honorable Mention
2007 NAA ACME Awards - Online sports news coverage
2005 Regional Addy Award
2004 Best Website Design, Tennessee Press Association
References
External links
WJHL "News Channel 11"Tri-Cities News
American news websites
Herald Courier
Newspapers published in Virginia
Berkshire Hathaway
Mass media in Virginia
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers
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