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Belfast Telegraph

Belfast Telegraph

The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland. First published in 1870 as the Belfast Evening Telegraph, as of 2025, its editor-in-chief was Martin Breen.

Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured by the Protestant population", while also being read within Catholicnationalist communities in Northern Ireland.

Owned by Independent News and Media (INM), a Dublin-based media company, from 2000, the INM group of newspapers was acquired by Mediahuis Ireland in 2019. Mediahuis Ireland also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.

In 2012, the newspaper moved to being exclusively a morning only publication and, as of 2024, no longer revealed circulation figures (sales figures), but rather releases the number of readers "reached" daily. In 2024, Mediahuis stated that the Belfast Telegraph was "reaching 143,311 readers" per day.