The 1934 Carter Family song 'It'll Aggravate Your Soul' mentions the newspaper. When Carter left Bristol in 1907 the Herald was combined with the Courier and became the Bristol Herald Courier. Carter, founder of the Clinchfield Railroad, moved to Bristol in 1903 and founded the Bristol Herald.

In 1870, Slack launched the Bristol Courier, a weekly which became Bristol's first daily paper in 1888. This publication continued until after the turn of the century. That was when John Slack founded the Bristol News. The beginning of the present Bristol Herald Courier came in August 1865. In 2010, the Herald Courier 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.' History The future of the website is said to be up in the air. Under Media General, both operations provided content for, a Media General's Digital Media Department subsidiary. News Channel 11 reporters often have bylined stories that appear in the Herald Courier news pages. Herald Courier reporters are trained to occasionally deliver webcasts of Bristol news, conduct TV 'talk-backs' with WJHL and gather audio for daily stories. The Herald Courier is in what the media industry calls a converged newsroom, meaning its online ( ) print ( Herald Courier) and broadcast ( WJHL-Johnson City) operations work together closely. The newspaper is located in Bristol, Virginia, a small city located in Southwest Virginia on the Tennessee border. The Bristol Herald Courier is a daily newspaper owned by Lee Enterprises. Office of the Bristol Herald Courier in Bristol, Va.

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