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Encyclopedia > Bristol Herald Courier
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The September 27, 2006 front page
of The Bristol Herald Courier.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Media General
Publisher Carl Esposito
Editor J. Todd Foster
Founded 1865
Political allegiance Independent
Price 50 cents
(Monday-Saturday)
one dollar and 25 cents (Sunday)
Headquarters 320 Morrison Blvd
Bristol, VA 24201
United States
ISSN 1552-2458

Website: www.tricities.com


The Bristol Herald Courier is a 41,000 circulation daily newspaper owned by Richmond, Virginia-based Media General, Inc. The newspaper is located in Bristol, Virginia, a small city located in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Media General, Inc. ... Motto: A Good Place to Live Nickname: The Birthplace of Country Music Map Political Statistics County Independent city Mayor To Be Determined Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 34. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,774 sq mi (110,785 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ... Media General, Inc. ... Motto: A Good Place to Live Nickname: The Birthplace of Country Music Map Political Statistics County Independent city Mayor To Be Determined Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 34. ...


The Herald Courier is in what the media industry calls a converged newsroom, meaning its online (www.tricities.com) print (Herald Courier) and broadcast (WJHL-Johnson City) operations work close together. Herald Courier reporters are trained to occasionally deliver webcasts of Bristol news, conduct TV "talk-backs" with WJHL and gather audio for daily stories. News Channel 11 reporters often have bylined stories that appear in the Herald Courier news pages. Both operations provide content for TriCities.com, a subsidiary of Media General's Interactive Media Department. Convergence is also seen in the media. ... WJHL-TV (News Channel 11) is the CBS television affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, serving the greater Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, and neighboring western North Carolina, southeastern Kentucky and the southwestern corner of West Virginia from a transmitter located atop Holston Mountain. ... TriCities. ...

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History

The beginning of the present Bristol Herald Courier came in 1865. That was the year John Slack founded the Bristol News, a publication which continued until after the turn of the century. In 1870, Slack launched the Bristol Courier, a weekly which became Bristol's first daily paper in 1888. George L. Carter, founder of the Clinchfield Railroad, moved to Bristol in 1903 and founded the Bristol Herald. When Carter left Bristol in1907 the Herald was combined with the Courier and became the Bristol Herald Courier.


On October 16, 1949, T. Eugene Worrell and a number of the city's leading businessmen, launched the Bristol Virginia-Tennessean, first published in direct competition with the Herald Courier and the evening News Bulletin. After many months of intense rivalry, the Herald Courier and Virginia-Tennessean joined in a printing agreement allowing both to carry on competitively in news and editorial fields while enjoying economies afforded by joint operations.


In 1986, after 36 years of home deliveries, the Bristol Virginia-Tennessean succumbed to the trend of dying afternoon newspapers and was combined with the morning editions of the Bristol Herald Courier. The combined morning publication with three editions covered and circulated in nine Southwest Virginia counties, Upper East Tennessee and the City of Bristol.


January 1, 1998 marked the sale of the Bristol Herald Courier to Media General.


Newsroom staff

The Bristol Herald Courier is located at 320 Bob Morrison Blvd in Bristol, VA. The BHC is a dominant news source for the Tri-Cities region alongside the Johnson City (TN) Press and the Kingsport (TN) Times News. The news staff covers a nine-county area in southwest Virginia including Russell, Scott and Tazewell counties. As of August 8, 2007 this was the newsroom staff of the Bristol Herald Courier. In Tennessee, the name Tri-Cities refers to the region surrounding the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol. ...


Editors

  • J. Todd Foster

Managing Editor

  • Susan Cameron

City Editor

  • Mark Hicks

Assistant City Editor

  • Jan Patrick

Features Editor

  • Sam Jackson

Sports Editor

  • Andrea Hopkins

Opinion Page Editor

  • Candice O. Combs

Interim Online Content Manager

  • Brian Reese

Copy Desk Chief

  • Mike Fox

Copy Editor

  • Keith Odell

Copy Editor

  • Jerry Shell

Copy Editor

  • Guy Kramer

Reporters

  • David McGee

Reporter

  • Gary F. Gray

Reporter

  • Amy Hunter

Reporter

  • Debra McCown

Reporter

  • Khristopher J. Brooks

Reporter

  • Becky Campbell

Reporter

  • Kathy Still

Reporter

  • George McLean

Reporter

  • Jennifer Estep

Features Writer

  • Joe Tennis

Features Writer

  • Tim Hayes

Sports Writer

  • Allen Gregory

Sports Writer

  • Bucky Dent

Sports Writer

  • Seth Bartee

Sports Writer


Photography

  • David Crigger

Chief Photographer

  • Andre Teague

Photographer

  • Earl Neikirk

Photographer

  • Bill McKee

Pre-Press Tech



 
 

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