Bristol Herald Courier

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Image:Leafcolor.jpg]] 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	left of center
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.

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.

Contents 1 HISTORY 2 NEWSROOM STAFF 2.1 EDITORS 2.2 REPORTERS 2.3 PHOTOGRAPHY

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 April 2, 2007 this was the newsroom staff of the Bristol Herald Courier.

[edit] 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

• Lindy Bazner
  

Online Content Manager

• Brian Reese
  

Copy Desk Chief

• Mike Fox
  

Copy Editor

• Keith Odell
  

Copy Editor

• Devika Patel
  

Copy Editor

• Jerry Shell
  

Copy Editor

[edit] REPORTERS

• David McGee
  

Reporter

• Joe Geraghty
  

Reporter

• Debra McCown
  

Reporter

• Jennifer Wig
  

Reporter

• Khristopher J. Brooks
  

Reporter

• Dan S. Tyson
  

Reporter

• Becky Campbell
  

Reporter

• Kathy Still
  

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

• Rob Backus
  

Sports Writer

[edit] PHOTOGRAPHY

• David Crigger
  

Chief Photographer

• Andre Teague
  

Photographer

• Earl Neikirk
  

Photographer

• Bill McKee
  

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