Syracuse Telegram
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | William R. Hearst (1922) |
| Publisher | Syracuse American Newspaper Corp. |
| Editor | William R. Hearst (1922) |
| Founded | September 22, 1922 |
| Ceased publication | November 24, 1925 |
| Headquarters | Hearst Building (old Firestone Building) 400 E. Washington St. Syracuse, New York |
The Syracuse Telegram was established in 1922 in Syracuse, New York by William Randolph Hearst. Between the years 1922–1925, the newspaper was published as both Syracuse Telegram and Syracuse Evening Telegram and the Sunday edition was called the Syracuse American, and alternately the Syracuse Sunday American.
In November, 1925, Hearst gained controlling interest in another Syracuse daily, the Syracuse Journal (1899–1929) which he merged with the Telegram. The name was changed to the Journal-Telegram and was later shortened to Syracuse Journal.
The Syracuse Telegram was a sole and separate company from a defunct newspaper called the Syracuse Telegram and Courier which operated during the years 1856 to 1905.
The Syracuse Telegram was established in Syracuse, New York by William Randolph Hearst. It was later consolidated with the Syracuse Journal, another Hearst newspaper in Syracuse. By 1922, Syracuse was the thirteenth city in which Hearst established a daily metropolitan newspaper. His papers had an aggregate circulation of more than 6,000,000 and consumed more than twelve percent of all the newsprint paper used in the United States.
Hearst took full advantage of the economic boom, and starting in 1921, he went on a "buying spree" and purchased three newspapers; the Times in Detroit, the Record in Boston, and the Post-Intelligencer in Seattle. In 1922, he added the Herald in Los Angeles, the Herald in Washington, D.C., established the New York Daily Mirror and started a new daily, the Oakland Post-Enquirer
Hearst stepped into the political arena in New York State and by late 1922 he acquired five Upstate New York papers; the Syracuse Telegram, Rochester Journal, the Post-Express in Albany, the Albany Times Union and the Oswego Daily Press in Fulton, New York.
Hearst purchased the Albany Times Union in Albany, New York in November, 1922, soon after a failed 1923 presidential bid. "The chief was still licking his wounds and viewed the Executive Mansion in Albany as a consolation prize." At the same time, he established the Syracuse Telegram and three other Upstate New York papers in order to "broaden his name recognition across upstate as he prepared to run for governor."
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