TriCities.com is an online source for news and information in the Tri-Cities (Johnson City, TN; Kingsport, TN; Bristol, TN-VA) area of northeast Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 and southwest Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. 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

Bristol Herald Courier

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....

 working with TriCities.com won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources. Those resources, as well as reporting, may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics,...

, 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

WJHL-TV

WJHL-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-Cities area of Northeastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia that's licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter on the southwest slope of Holston High Point...

 News Channel 11 building located at 338 East Main Street in Johnson City, TN. TriCities.com also has an office based out of the Bristol Herald Courier

Bristol Herald Courier

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....

 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).

SALES

Regional Sales Manager

• Janie Jarvis

Account Executive

• Theresa Bright
• Megan Watters

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