Telegraph-Journal
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Front page of the Telegraph Journal
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Brunswick News |
| Publisher | James K. Irving |
| Founded | 1862 |
| Headquarters | 210 Crown Street Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 2X7 |
| Sister newspapers |
The Daily Gleaner Times & Transcript |
| Website | telegraphjournal.com |
The Telegraph-Journal is a daily newspaper published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It serves as both a provincial daily and as a local newspaper for Saint John. The newspaper is published by Brunswick News, owned by the privately-held J.D. Irving, of the Irving Group of Companies, with stakes in forestry, shipbuilding and consumer products. The Telegraph-Journal is the only New Brunswick-based newspaper to be distributed province-wide and has the highest readership in the province at a weekly circulation of 233,549 and a daily readership of over 75,000.
Brunswick News also publishes a series of editions of regional news, including editions in Fredericton and Moncton under the titles “Daily Gleaner” and “Times & Transcript”, respectively. Corporate and editorial control rests under Irving control with the Telegraph-Journal's offices in Saint John.
The paper has been published out of Saint John since 1862. Capitalist and Irving founder, Kenneth Colin (K.C.) Irving, without formal announcement bought New Brunswick Publishing and the Telegraph-Journal, as well as a local Saint John radio station CHSJ in 1944. Eventually word got out that Irving had bought the paper as he began purchasing others in the province.
The Telegraph-Journal has been the focus of controversy several times over recent years, with allegations of media control, bias and advocacy journalism on behalf of business and political interests. A report from the Canadian Senate in 2006 on media control in Canada singled out New Brunswick because of the Irving companies' ownership of all English-language daily newspapers in the province, including the Telegraph-Journal. Senator Joan Fraser, author of the Senate report, stated, "We didn't find anywhere else in the developed world a situation like the situation in New Brunswick." The report went further, stating, "the Irvings' corporate interests form an industrial-media complex that dominates the province" to a degree "unique in developed countries." At the Senate hearing, journalists and academics cited Irving newspapers' lack of critical reporting on the family's influential businesses.
Irving family scion Jamie Irving took over as publisher in 2004, after which criticism of the Telegraph-Journal's agenda-based journalism became even more prevalent. This was particularly notable during the newspaper's reporting of issues related to electricity rates and NB Power, the crown corporation responsible for power generation and distribution. Editorials argued against rate increases that would harm J.D. Irving Ltd but failed to acknowledge the conflict of interest.
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