Bristol Herald Courier

Bristol Herald Courier
Office of the Bristol Herald Courier in Bristol, Va. Daily newspaper
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Lee Enterprises
Founder(s)John Slack
FoundedAugust 1865; 159 years ago (1865-08)
Political alignmentIndependent
Headquarters320 Bob Morrison Blvd
Bristol, VA 24201
United States
Circulation7,385 Daily (as of 2023)[1]
ISSN1552-2458
OCLC number43525780
Websiteheraldcourier.com

The Bristol Herald Courier is a daily newspaper owned by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper is located in Bristol, Virginia, a small city located in Southwest Virginia on the Tennessee border.

The Herald Courier is in what the media industry calls a converged newsroom, meaning its online (heraldcourier.com) print (Herald Courier) and broadcast (WJHL-Johnson City) operations work together closely. 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. Under Media General, both operations provided content for TriCities.com, a Media General's Digital Media Department subsidiary. The future of the website is said to be up in the air.[2]

In 2010, the Herald Courier 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."[3]

  1. ^ Lee Enterprises. "Form 10-K". investors.lee.net. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "UPDATED: Newspaper readers should experience no changes". Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  3. ^ "2010 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.