- Derby Telegraph
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Derby Telegraph Type Daily newspaper Format Tabloid Owner Northcliffe Media Editor Steve Hall Founded 1879 Headquarters Derby Official website thisisderbyshire.co.uk The Derby Telegraph, formerly the Derby Evening Telegraph, is a daily tabloid newspaper printed and distributed in Derby, England.
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History
In 1857, Richard Keene was publishing the Derby Telegraph every Saturday. His business was in Irongate. His family was to include Alfred John Keene who was a local painter who now has works in Derby Art Gallery.[1]
Another paper was first published in 1879 by Eliza Pike. It was known at the time as the Derby Daily Telegraph and was a four-page broadsheet which cost a halfpenny.
The first editor was WJ Piper who stayed in the post until his death in 1918. He was succeeded by William Gilman who in 1927, saw the paper sold three times in a series of months, eventually ending up in the hands of its current owners Northcliffe Newspaper Group, which is part of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The same company also publishes the Derby Express - a weekly advertising-funded free newspaper.
The paper was originally housed at the Corn Market in the town centre, It was refurbished in 1918 after the First World War but it outgrew these premises in 1929 and moved to the Corn Exchange. It stayed there until 1981 when it moved to its current home on Meadow Road.
Competitions
Until the late 1990s, the newspaper ran the annual Miss Derby Evening Telegraph competition. Entrants had to be female, aged 17-25, never married and never had children.
Content
Before the 1970s, the newspaper (in its broadsheet form) often had national news stories on its front page, with weighty current affairs stories. The coverage of national and local news stories was almost 50:50. The national content has now dwindled significantly, moving to page 2 in the 1980s, and now has a brief mention on page 10.
Distribution
It is published daily from Monday to Saturday and is the principal local newspaper for Derby and surrounding parts of south Derbyshire. The newspaper has a local focus with usually just one page reserved for national and international news. Back issues from 1879 until the present day can be viewed at the Derby Local Studies Library or the British Library Newspaper Collection at Colindale, London. Current[when?] average circulation is 37,896 daily.
The paper was known as the Derby Evening Telegraph until April 2009 when it changed its name to simply the Derby Telegraph. This was because only one edition was now published per day and available in the morning, which would have rendered the use of the word "Evening" in the title as misleading. For many years, the name "Derby" had not featured in the paper's front page masthead. The change of name involved the word "Evening" being substituted by "Derby" in the masthead. The masthead font has been unchanged since 1975.
References
- ^ White's 1857 Directory of Derby, accessed February 2011
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