# TriCities.com

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{{Short description|Online newspaper in Tennessee, United States}}
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'''TriCities.com''' was an online source for news and information in the Tri-Cities ([Johnson City, TN](/source/Johnson_City%2C_TN); [Kingsport, TN](/source/Kingsport%2C_TN); [Bristol, TN](/source/Bristol%2C_TN)-VA) area of northeast [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee) and southwest [Virginia](/source/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](/source/Bristol_Herald_Courier)'' working with TriCities.com won the [Pulitzer Prize for Public Service](/source/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](/source/WJHL-TV) News Channel 11 building located at 338 East Main Street in [Johnson City, TN](/source/Johnson_City%2C_TN). TriCities.com also had an office based out of the [Bristol Herald Courier](/source/Bristol_Herald_Courier) building located at 320 Bob Morrison Blvd in [Bristol, VA](/source/Bristol%2C_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](/source/Bristol_Herald_Courier) and News Channel 11 ([WJHL-TV](/source/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

==References==
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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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Category:Newspapers published in Virginia
Category:Berkshire Hathaway
Category:Mass media in Bristol, Virginia
Category:Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers
Category:Johnson City, Tennessee
Category:Mass media in Tennessee
Category:Joint ventures
Category:Internet properties established in 2003
Category:2003 establishments in Tennessee
Category:2003 establishments in Virginia
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Category:Defunct American websites
Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2012
Category:2012 disestablishments in Tennessee
Category:2012 disestablishments in Virginia

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