Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about BRISTOL HERALD COURIER!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Bristol Herald Courier is a 39,000 circulation daily newspaper owned by Berkshire hathaway . the newspaper is located in Bristol, a small city located in southwest virginia on the Tennessee border . in 2010, the Herald Courier won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service . in 1870, Slack launched the Bristol Courier, a weekly which became Bristol’s first daily paper in 1888 . 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 the combined morning publication covered nine Southwest Virginia counties . it was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2012 . the newspaper now operates only in print and online . the paper is the dominant news source for the Bristol and southwest virginia region . in 2008 and 2009, it won five national journalism awards . it was a 2007 national finalist for online convergence by the Associated Press Managing “It not only reported what’s happening but foreshadowed what the community could face in the future.” “it not only … reported what is happening,” says a spokesman . “it also fore