Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
The July 27, 2005 front page of the Telegram & Gazette
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	The New York Times Company
Publisher	Bruce Gaultney
Editor	Harry T. Whitin
Founded	January 1, 1866
Price	USD .60
Headquarters	20 Franklin St. Worcester, MA 01615-0012 United States
Website: www.telegram.com

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette is Worcester, Massachusetts's only daily newspaper. The paper, known locally as the Telegram or the T and G, is owned by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company (publisher of The New York Times and The Boston Globe).

It 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Sections and features 3 Other publications 4 External link 5 References

[edit] History

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 the Chronicle Publishing Company, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1986. Chronicle would sell the Telegram & Gazette to The New York Times Company, owners of the nearby Boston Globe, in 1999.

The paper's owners also held Worcester radio station WTAG until 1987 after the newspapers were divested.

[edit] Sections and features

The weekday Telegram prints five sections: news, local, sports, business and a feature section ("Health" Monday, "People" Tuesday and Friday, "Food" Wednesday, "Time Out" 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 sections contain news and advertising "zoned" to an ambitious six dvisions of the Telegram circulation area. Three of these zones publish additional local news sections that appear in the Sunday newspaper. Each of the six zones has one or more news bureaus based in suburban towns:

Zone	Sunday section	Location	Bureau(s) in
Blackstone Valley	Valley T&G	Southeast suburbs	Whitinsville
City/Wachusett	None	Worcester and near northwest suburbs	Worcester, Holden
North County	Montachusett T&G	North and far northwest suburbs	Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster
Route 9 East	None	East suburbs (Boston's MetroWest)	Northborough, Westborough
Route 9 West	None	West suburbs	Spencer
South County	Heritage T&G	South and southwest suburbs; northern Connecticut	Southbridge, Webster

Local sections include news and obituaries only; all editorials and letters to the editor appear in the regional opinion and op-ed pages in the main news section.

The Sunday Telegram does not have zoned local sections. It does include the county's largest classified ad listing, the "Insight" opinion section, the "Etc." local arts section, and two sections reprinted in full from The Boston Globe: "Arts & Entertainment" and "Travel." The Telegram also reprints some other Globe special sections, such as the annual skiing season preview.

[edit] Other publications

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corporation also owns Coulter Press, which publishes several weekly newspapers in suburban towns northeast and east of Worcester. The Telegram staff also puts out Worcester Quarterly, a lifestyle magazine published four times a year.

[edit] External link

• Official website

[edit] References

• Sit, Mary. "Publisher resigns at Worcester paper; 'Irreversible difference' in philosophy cited." Boston Globe, February 10, 1989. Economy section, p. 21.