The ''Telegram & Gazette'' (and ''Sunday Telegram'') is the only daily newspaper of
Worcester, Massachusetts
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. The paper, headquartered at
100 Front Street
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and known locally as ''the Telegram'' or the ''T & G'', offers coverage of all of
Worcester County, as well as surrounding areas of the western suburbs of
Boston
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,
Western Massachusetts
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, and several towns in
Windham County in northeastern
Connecticut
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.
The ownership corporation, Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., was a wholly owned subsidiary of
The New York Times Company
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History
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. T ...
(publisher of ''
The New York Times
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'' and ''
The Boston Globe
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'') from 2000 to 2013. In 2013, the New York Times Company sold both the ''T & G'' and the ''Globe'' to
John W. Henry
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, owner of the
Boston Red Sox
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, although Henry told staff at the Worcester paper he intended to sell it as soon as possible. In 2014, Henry sold the paper to
Halifax Media Group
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. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by
New Media Investment Group
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being stripped of his 1912 Olympic titles, medals and awards.
Until the 1980s, two papers—the ''Worcester Telegram'' in the morning and the ''Evening Gazette'' in the afternoon—were published by the same company, with separate editorial staffs in some departments. The two were merged into a single ''Telegram & Gazette'' upon their acquisition by
Chronicle Publishing Company
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, publishers of the ''
San Francisco Chronicle
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'', in 1986. The ''Chronicle'' sold the ''Telegram & Gazette'' to
The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass media company that publishes ''The New York Times''. Its headquarters are in Manhattan, New York City.
History
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. T ...
in 1999.
The paper's previous owners also owned Worcester
radio station
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WTAG
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until selling it after the newspapers were divested, in 1987.
In 2018, owner
GateHouse Media acquired Holden Landmark Corporation, owner of the alternative weekly ''
Worcester Magazine
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''.
Circulation
* 1999: 107,400
* 2012: 74,563 (weekday)
* 2018: 22,400 (weekday)
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Sections and features
The weekday ''Telegram & Gazette'' contains national, state and local news, as well as sports, business, and a feature stories. On Thursdays Worcester Magazine is inserted in the paper highlighting local artists and events in the area.
The paper's regular reporters also contribute regular or occasional columns with names such as "Barnestorming", "City Hall Notebook", "Politics and the City", etc. The local news section also includes local news stories and obituaries.
All editorials and letters to the editor appear in the regional opinion and op-ed
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pages of the main news section.
The ''Sunday Telegram'' includes the county's largest classified ad listings, Business Matters section, News, Local and Editorial pages, Living and Homes, and Cars sections, a tabloid-sized comic section and an in-house created Arts, Culture and Travel Section, which replaced similar sections that used to be reprinted in full from ''The Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
.''
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corporation owns Coulter Press, which publishes several weekly newspapers in suburban towns northeast and east of Worcester. The ''Telegram'' staff also produces '' Worcester Living'' (formerly ''Worcester Quarterly''), a local lifestyle magazine. Before their sale to Community Newspaper Company
Community Newspaper Company, or CNC, was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. It also published several daily newspapers in Greater Boston.
The company's propertie ...
in 1993, the ''T&G'' also owned the ''Hudson Sun'' and ''Marlboro Enterprise'' daily newspapers and Beacon Communications Corporation weekly newspapers in western Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Middlesex County is located in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,632,002, making it the most populous county in both Massachusetts and New England and ...
.
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Newspapers published in Massachusetts
The New York Times
Mass media in Worcester, Massachusetts
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