Telegram & Gazette

Telegram & Gazette

The September 11, 2008, front page of the Telegram & Gazette
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	New Media Investment Group
Publisher	Paul Provost
Editor	Karen Webber
Founded	January 1, 1866
Headquarters	100 Front Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01608, United States
Circulation	74,563 weekdays 70,805 Saturdays 79,958 Sundays in 2012
ISSN	1050-4184
Website	www.telegram.com

The Telegram & Gazette (and Sunday Telegram) is Worcester, Massachusetts's only daily newspaper. The paper, headquartered at 100 Front Street 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, Western Massachusetts, and several towns in Windham County in northeastern Connecticut.

The ownership corporation, Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., was a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company (publisher of The New York Times and The Boston Globe) from 2000 to 2013. In 2013, the New York Times Company sold both the T & G and the Globe to John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox, 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. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group.

On January 22, 1913, the Worcester Telegram ran a story ("Thorpe with Professional Baseball Team Says Clancy"), soon picked up by other papers, that led to Jim Thorpe 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, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle, in 1986. The Chronicle sold the Telegram & Gazette to The New York Times Company in 1999.