The Daily Telegram

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The Daily Telegram
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
PublisherDave Zewicky
EditorNone listed
FoundedDecember 3, 1892, as Evening Telegram
Headquarters246 South Main Street,
Adrian, Michigan 49221, United States
Circulation 2,425(as of 2024) [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

The first edition of the Evening Telegram was published on December 3, 1892. Inaugural publishers M.W. Redfield and Elmer E. Putnam said "particular attention will be given to events of a local nature." [5] It competed with the Times and Expositor.

After several management changes the newspaper came under the ownership of David Grandon, prohibitionist publisher of a paper called the Weekly Michigan Messenger, who changed its name to the Adrian Daily Telegram beginning August 6, 1898. In addition to the new name, that day's paper announced upgrades to its printing plant. [6]

In 1907, Grandon sold the newspaper to Stuart H. Perry. [7] At that time, its circulation was reported at 6,000. In 1914, the former Times and Expositor, which by then was just known as the Times, shut down and was absorbed into the Telegram. [8] Temporarily, the front-page nameplate would read "Adrian Daily Telegram and Times," but after several months the Times name was dropped everywhere except the masthead on Page 4, where the legacy of both papers would continue to be acknowledged through 1975.

Perry died in 1957 and the title of publisher passed to his son-in-law, C. Kenneth Wesley. [9]

The Telegram was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1964. At that time, the new owners announced that its offices would soon move to the former A&P grocery store at 133 North Winter Street. [10]

Publication of the Adrian Daily Telegram was disrupted in late 1972 because of a strike. [11] No paper was published from October 10 to October 23. The Telegram published a single edition on October 24 in which it detailed management's position on the strike by the Toledo Typographical Union Local 63 and the Toledo Newspaper Guild and said it would continue publishing. [12] Beginning October 31, Thomson published a newspaper intermittently under the name Adrian News-Advertiser; 19 editions were published under that name before the Telegram resumed on January 8, 1973. Striking union members published in interim paper called the Maple City Reporter.

The paper changed its name to The Daily Telegram in 1973. [11] In a front-page note, the paper explained: "Such changes are not made without careful consideration of the role and mission of a newspaper. Over the years The Telegram has expanded its circulation to the point where two-thirds of it is outside the city. As the county seat daily, it publishes considerable news of the work of the county agencies, courts and the county commissioners." [13] At the same time, the paper switched from the old hot type printing method to cold type. [14]

The Telegram was a six-day-a-week paper for its first 98 years, publishing Monday through Saturday. A Sunday edition was launched in April 1990.

The paper was sold to the Illinois-based chain Independent Media Group in 1997. [15] In 2000, it was purchased by Liberty Group Publishing, an arm of a private equity firm. At the time, the Telegram reported a circulation of 17,000. [16] Liberty would later be purchased by Fortress Investment Group and rebranded as GateHouse Media.

In 2018, the Telegram reported an average daily circulation of 8,570 on its Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation.

Beginning in 2018, the Telegram no longer had its own editor, instead sharing a regional editor with The Monroe News. In 2019, GateHouse Media moved production of the Telegram out of Adrian and to a centralized hub. [17] In July 2021, the building that the newspaper's offices had occupied since 1964 was sold at auction. [18] In 2022, the newspaper started renting offices in a downtown Adrian co-working space. [19]

The Telegram ceased printing a Saturday edition in March 2022. [20]

In 2024, the Telegram reported an average daily print run of 2,245, of which an average of 1,910 copies were distributed. As of November 2024, its website listed two news reporters and one sports reporter. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation". The Daily Telegram. 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  2. ↑ "Michigan Press Association list of members". Michigan Press Association. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Liberty Group Operating, Inc. FORM 8-K/A, September 13, 2000
  4. ↑ Fund I - Independent Media Group
  5. 1 2 "About Us". lenconnect.com. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Another Step Forward". Adrian Daily Telegram. August 6, 1898. p. 1.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ↑ "Adrian Telegram Changes Hands With This Issue of the Paper". Adrian Daily Telegram. October 1, 1907. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "The Telegram Today Takes Over Circulation of the Adrian Times". Adrian Daily Telegram. April 13, 1914. p. 1.
  9. ↑ "C. Kenneth Wesley Named Publisher of the Telegram". The Daily Telegram. May 1, 1957. p. 1.
  10. ↑ "The Adrian Telegram Is Sold To Thomson Newspapers, Inc". Adrian Daily Telegram. June 30, 1964. p. 1.
  11. 1 2 "About Adrian Daily Telegram". Chronicling America. Library of Congress . Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Telegram Statement On The Strike". The Daily Telegram. October 24, 1972. p. 1.
  13. ↑ "A New Name for Telegram". The Daily Telegram. May 4, 1973. p. 1.
  14. ↑ "The Telegram Printed Today By New Method". The Daily Telegram. May 2, 1973. p. 1.
  15. ↑ Crossman, Matt (February 7, 1997). "Sale of The Daily Telegram completed". The Daily Telegram. p. 1.
  16. ↑ "Liberty Group Publishing to buy The Daily Telegram". The Daily Telegram. April 19, 2000. p. 1.
  17. ↑ "To our readers". The Daily Telegram. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  18. ↑ Panian, David. "Daily Telegram buildings in Adrian sold, staff working remotely until new office is leased". The Daily Telegram. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  19. ↑ Panian, David. "Daily Telegram opens new office in Adrian, news editor discusses other changes". The Daily Telegram. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  20. ↑ Panian, David (March 3, 2022). "Saturday print edition of Daily Telegram going away, but reporting will continue online". The Daily Telegram.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ↑ "Staff Directory". The Daily Telegram. Retrieved 2024-11-28.


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