{{Short description|Online newspaper in Tennessee, United States}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2007}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox website | name = TriCities.com | logo = File:TriCities.com (Tennessee & Virginia) news website logo.png | logo_size = | logo_alt = "TriCities" in black text and ".com" in red text | logo_caption = | logo_upright = | screenshot = | screenshot_size = | screenshot_alt = | collapsible = <!-- set as "on", "y", etc., otherwise omit/leave blank. Does nothing for mobile users. --> | collapsetext = <!-- collapsible area's heading (default "Screenshot"); omit/leave blank if collapsible not set --> | background = <!-- for collapsetext heading; default grey (gainsboro) --> | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = <!-- Use ISO 639-1 code, e.g. "fr" for French. For multiple names in different languages, use {{Lang|[code]|[name]}} in native_name = and leave native_name_lang = empty. --> | romanized_name = | former_name = | company_type = Joint venture | website_type = News website | language = English | language_count = | language_footnote = | traded_as = | founded = 2003 | dissolved = 2012 | predecessor = | successor = | headquarters = <!-- or: | location = --> | location_city = | location_country = <!-- or: | country = --> | country_of_origin = | locations = | area_served = Tri-Cities (Tennessee–Virginia) | owners = ''Bristol Herald Courier'' and WJHL-TV | author = <!-- or: | authors / creator / creators --> | founder = | editor = <!-- or: | editors = --> | chairman = | chairperson = | president = | CEO = | MD = | GM = | key_people = | industry = | products = | services = | revenue = <!-- or: | rev = --> | operating_income = | international = <!-- or: | intl = --> | net_income = | assets = | equity = | employees = <!-- or: | num_employees = --> | parent = | divisions = | subsidiaries = <!-- or: | subsid = --> | url = {{URL|TriCities.com}} (now redirects to {{URL|heraldcourier.com}}) | ipv6 = | advertising = | commercial = <!-- "Yes", "No" or leave blank --> | registration = <!-- or: | reg = --> | num_users = <!-- or: | users = --> | launch_date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | current_status = | native_clients = | content_license = <!-- or: | content_licence = --> | programming_language = | issn = <!-- ISSN, e.g. 1085-6706 (automatically linked to https://www.WorldCat.org) --> | eissn = <!-- eISSN, e.g. 1085-6706 (automatically linked to https://www.WorldCat.org) --> | oclc = <!-- OCLC number, useful where an ISSN has not been allocated (automatically linked to https://www.WorldCat.org) --> | footnotes = }} '''TriCities.com''' was an online source for news and information in the Tri-Cities (Johnson City, TN; Kingsport, TN; Bristol, TN-VA) area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. 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'' working with TriCities.com 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."<ref>{{cite web |title=2010 Pulitzer Prizes {{!}} Journalism |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2010 |website=pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Location== TriCities.com operations were based out of the WJHL-TV News Channel 11 building located at 338 East Main Street in Johnson City, TN. TriCities.com also had an office based out of the Bristol Herald Courier building located at 320 Bob Morrison Blvd in Bristol, VA.<ref>{{cite web |title=CONTACT |url=https://heraldcourier.com/contact/ |website=Bristol Herald Courier |access-date=11 May 2024}}</ref>
==Staff== TriCities.com was 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).
==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
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002202/http://www.wjhl.com/ WJHL "News Channel 11"] * [http://www.tricities.com/ Tri-Cities News]
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