The
Telegram & Gazette is
Worcester, Massachusetts'sWorcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
only daily newspaper. The paper, known locally as
the Telegram or the
T & G is owned by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of
The New York Times CompanyThe New York Times Company is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City....
(publisher of
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and
The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
).
It offers coverage of all of
Worcester County-Demographics:In 1990 Worcester County had a population of 709,705.As of the census of 2000, there were 750,963 people, 283,927 households, and 192,502 families residing in the county. The population density was 496 people per square mile . There were 298,159 housing units at an average density...
, as well as surrounding areas of the western suburbs of Boston,
Western MassachusettsWestern Massachusetts is a loosely defined geographical region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts which contains the Berkshires, the Pioneer Valley, and some or all of the Swift River Valley. The region is always considered to include Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, and the...
, and several towns in
Windham CountyWindham County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of 2010, the population was 118,428.The entire county is within the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, as designated by the National Park Service.-History:Windham...
in northeastern
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.
History
Until the 1980s, two papers — the
Worcester Telegram in the morning and the
Evening GazetteEvening Gazette is the name of several local newspapers:United Kingdom* Colchester Evening Gazette* Evening Gazette * Evening Gazette United States...
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 CompanyThe Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000...
, publishers of the
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, in 1986. Chronicle sold the
Telegram & Gazette to
The New York Times CompanyThe New York Times Company is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City....
in 1999.
The paper's previous owners also held Worcester
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until selling it after the newspapers were divested, in 1987.
Sections and features
The weekday
Telegram prints five sections: news, local, sports, business, and a feature section ("Health" on Monday, "People" on Tuesday and Friday, "Food" on Wednesday, and "Time Out" on Thursday).
On the front page of the local section, two staff commentators alternate "metro columns": Dianne Williamson and Clive McFarlane. The paper's regular reporters also contribute regular or occasional columns with names such as "Worcester Diary," "Politics and the City," "South County Notebook," "Wachusett Watch," etc. The local news section also includes local news stories and obituaries.
Montachusett T&G also publishes on Thursdays.
All editorials and letters to the editor appear in the regional opinion and
op-edAn op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page , is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board...
pages of the main news section.
The
Sunday Telegram includes the county's largest classified ad listing, News, Local and Editorial pages, the "Etc." local arts section, Homes and Cars sections, and two sections reprinted in full from
The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
: "Arts & Entertainment" and "Travel." The
Telegram also reprints some other
Globe special sections, such as the annual skiing season preview.
Other publications
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corporation owns Coulter Press, which publishes several weekly newspapers in suburban towns northeast and east of Worcester. The
Telegram staff also puts out
Worcester Living (formerly
Worcester Quarterly), a local lifestyle magazine. Before their sale to
Community Newspaper CompanyCommunity Newspaper Company, a subsidiary of GateHouse Media, is a newspaper publisher in eastern Massachusetts. It was founded in 1991 as a holding company for several suburban publishers bought by Fidelity Investments; in 2001, Fidelity sold it to the Boston Herald; in 2006, the massive chain—New...
in 1993, the
T&G also owned the
Hudson Sun and Marlboro EnterpriseThe Enterprise-Sun, and its predecessors, the Hudson Daily Sun and Marlboro Enterprise, were daily newspapers covering the city of Marlborough and adjoining town of Hudson, both in Middlesex County, Massachusetts....
daily newspapers and Beacon Communications Corporation weekly newspapers in western
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.