The Daily Telegram

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The Daily Telegram
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
PublisherDave Zewicky
EditorRay Kisonas
FoundedDecember 3, 1892, as Evening Telegram
Headquarters133 North Winter Street,
Adrian, Michigan 49221, United States
Circulation 8,076 Daily
9,088 Sunday(as of 2022) [1]
OCLC number 33972687
Website lenconnect.com

The Daily Telegram is a daily newspaper published Sundays through Fridays in Adrian, Michigan, United States. [2] Former owner GateHouse Media acquired the paper from Independent Media Group in 2000. [3] [4]

Contents

The newspaper covers all of Lenawee County and southern Jackson County, including "Adrian, Tecumseh, Blissfield, Clinton, Addison, Deerfield, Hudson, Morenci, Onsted, Brooklyn and all points in between." [5]

History

Upon the founding of the Telegram in December 1892, inaugural publishers M.W. Redfield and Elmer E. Putnam said "particular attention will be given to events of a local nature." [5]

Initially named the Evening Telegram, the newspaper took the name of its hometown in 1898, becoming the Adrian Daily Telegram, changing its name again to become The Daily Telegram in 1973. [6]

The Adrian Daily Telegram suspended publication from October 24, 1972, to January 5, 1973, because of a strike. [6]

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