Tyler Morning Telegraph Explained

Tyler Morning Telegraph
Logo Alt:Logo of the Tyler Morning Telegraph
Image Alt:Front page of February 13, 2019 issue
Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Broadsheet
Owner:M. Roberts Media
Publisher:Justin Wilcox
President:Stephen McHaney
Maneditor:Santana Wood
Maneditors:-->
Dirinteractive:Howard Thompson
Sportseditor:Phil Hicks
Custom Label:LCCN
Custom:sn 86089220
Foundation: (as the Courier)
Language:English
Publishing Country:United States
Circulation:8,055
Circulation Date:2023
Circulation Ref:[1]
Oclc:14248248

The Tyler Morning Telegraph is a daily newspaper based in Tyler, Texas, United States. It is privately owned by M. Roberts Media.

History

The newspaper begin publishing weekly in 1877 as the Weekly Courier. In 1882, the Daily Courier began publishing daily. In 1906, the Daily Courier and the Weekly Times consolidated into The Tyler Courier-Times. In 1910, the newspaper sold to the Butler family.

The newspaper's Sunday edition is known as the Tyler Morning Telegraph. The Tyler Courier-Times was a sister afternoon paper published until 1995.

The paper uses a white letter T over a blue circle as its logo, changing from the previous stylized paperboy. The paper bills itself as "the Tyler Paper" in advertising and elsewhere, including its URL.

It does not publish on Christmas Day.

On November 28, 2018, T.B. Butler Publishing announced the sale of the Tyler Morning Telegraph to media company, M. Roberts Media[2] New ownership went into effect on December 1, 2018, ending 108 years of ownership by the Butler family.

Controversy

In its Friday, January 8, 2021 edition, the newspaper incorrectly captioned an Associated Press photo of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol with "members of antifa dressed as supporters of President Donald Trump". The newspaper issued a retraction, and published multiple follow-up articles detailing how the mistake occurred.

In April 2024, access to tylerpaper.com was banned in the EEA allegedly because of its references to Prince William and Rose Hanbury. The precise banning message was

" 451: Unavailable for legal reasons.We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023 Texas Newspaper Directory . https://web.archive.org/web/20230503044946/https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 . 2023-05-03 . 2023-05-03 . Texas Press Association.
  2. Web site: About Us. M. Roberts Media. en-US. 2019-03-13.