The Bristol Herald Courier is a 39,000 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 on the Tennessee border.
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 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. Both operations provide content for TriCities.com, a subsidiary of Media General's Interactive Media Department.
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 in 1907 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 the dominant news source for the Editors
- J. Todd Foster
Managing Editor
- Susan Cameron
City Editor
- Christine Uthoff
Assistant City Editor
- Jan Patrick
Features Editor
- Jim Cnockaert
Sports Editor
- Suzanne Tate
Opinion Page Editor
- John Hudson
Copy Editor
- Keith O'Dell
Copy Desk Supervisor
- Jerry Shell
Copy Desk Supervisor
- Guy Kramer
Copy Editor
Reporters
- David McGee
Reporter
- Daniel Gilbert
Reporter
- Michael L. Owens
Reporter
- Debra McCown
Reporter
- Mac McLean
Reporter
- Jennifer Estep
Features Writer
- Joe Tennis
Features Writer
- Tim Hayes
Sports Writer
- Allen Gregory
Sports Writer
- Spencer Campbell
Sports Writer
- Brian T. Smith
Assistant Sports Editor/Sports Writer
- Ryan Roorda
Lead Sports Designer
Photography
- David Crigger
Chief Photographer
- Andre Teague
Photographer
- Earl Neikirk
Photographer
- Bill McKee
Pre-Press Tech
Editorial Assistants
- Linn Casey
- Mary Dutton
References
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