Sheffield Telegraph
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Newspaper
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published in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, England.
History
Founded in 1855 as the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, it was the city's first daily newspaper, published at 08:00 each morning. The newspaper struggled until W. C. LengW. C. Leng
William Christopher Leng, known as W. C. Leng was a newspaper publisher in Sheffield.Leng was born and educated in Hull, before being apprenticed as a pharmacist and setting up his own business. During this period, he contributed anonymously to the Hull Free Press, calling for reforms such as...
became editor in 1864, moving the business to Aldine Court, introducing Linotype
Linotype machine
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printing and using it to support the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
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.
After taking over the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent in 1938, it dropped the "Daily" from its name.
The history of Sheffield's "Telegraph" is intertwined with that of The Star
Sheffield Star
The Star, often known as the Sheffield Star is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week. Originally a broadsheet, the newspaper became a tabloid in 1989...
and the Green Un
Green Un
The Green 'Un is a Saturday sports paper published, on Saturday evenings, in Sheffield, England, its name deriving from the light green newsprint on which it has traditionally been printed....
. All three newspapers are published today by Johnston Press PLC
Johnston Press
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. As has been the case for its sister publications, the Telegraph has undergone several name changes during its history.
In its early years, the newspaper was owned by Frederick Clifford and then William Leng. It aimed to popularise the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
cause among the working class
Working class
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. By 1898, it was claiming sales of 1,250,000 copies per week, and it had two sister publications: the Weekly Telegraph, which contained feature articles and serialised fiction
Fiction
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, and the Evening Telegraph, which later became The Star.
From 16 July 1934 to 29 October 1938 it appeared as the Sheffield Telegraph, and as the Sheffield Telegraph and Daily Independent from 31 October 1938 until 13 May 1939.
During the first years of the war (15 May 1939-12 June 1942) the newspaper was named the Telegraph & Independent, changing briefly (13 June 1942-14 July 1942) to the Sheffield Telegraph and Independent, before assuming the title Sheffield Telegraph on 15 July 1942 which it maintained until 14 September 1965.
The new title of Sheffield Morning Telegraph was implemented on 15 September 1965 and continued in use to 10 January 1966, after which Morning Telegraph was adopted (11 January 1966-8 February 1986). The Morning Telegraph ceased production in 1986.
In 1989, the Sheffield Telegraph was relaunched, and published weekly, on Fridays, and featuring a large property
Property
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section. In 2010, the Sheffield Telegraph changed its day of publication from a Friday to a Thursday.
The total average issue readership for the Sheffield Telegraph is 64,093.
Notable staff at the Telegraph have included Sir Harold Evans, who was later PRO to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and head of ITV News Service (not to be confused with another Harold Evans
Harold Evans
Sir Harold Matthew Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. He has written various books on history and journalism...
, the former editor of The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
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); author Peter Tinniswood
Peter Tinniswood
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; novelists John Harris
John Harris (novelist)
John Harris was a British author. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books. He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonym of Mark Hebden. His 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954...
and J.L. Hodson; cartoonists Ralph Whitworth
Ralph Whitworth
Ralph Whitworth was born in Sheffield, UK on 29 May 1924.Growing up in Sheffield, Ralph's family moved often but are known to have lived on Scotland Street and in Palm Lane, Crookes....
and J. F. Horrabin for the daily and Pete McKee
Pete McKee
Pete McKee is a painter and commercial artist from Sheffield, England. He is a cartoonist for the Sheffield Telegraph’s sports section. He has exhibited regularly around the north of England. Using bright colours his larger than life, often humorous characters inhabit a world of working men's...
for the weekly; critics George Linstead
George Linstead
George Frederick Linstead was a musician, critic and composer, who featured prominently in the musical life of Sheffield and South Yorkshire....
and E. F. Watling; sports writers John Motson
John Motson
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, Richard A. Sparling, C.M. "Monty" Marston, Lawrence Hunter
Lawrence Hunter
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, Peter Keeling, Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
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, Frank Taylor (who later survived the Munich Air crash of 1958), and Keith Farnsworth
Keith Farnsworth
Keith Farnsworth, author and journalist, is best known as a former sports editor of the old Morning Telegraph, Sheffield, and the author of 18 books on football, cricket and social and industrial history, etc..-Biography:...
; sub-editors Jack Westwood, Stuart Machin, Deryk Brown, Israel Panner
Israel Panner
Israel Panner , also known by the pen names Ike Rennap and Harry Robertson, was an Austrian/British writer and journalist....
. Other editorial staff members have included Keith Graves, who was later with the BBC and Sky TV as a much-travelled reporter; Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey
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, a long-serving feature writer who was awarded the MBE in 2002; Geoffrey L. Baylis, who in later years was honoured for services to journalism in New Zealand; Barry Lloyd-Jones, Brian Stevenson and Clive Jones, who were news editors; Leslie F. Daniells and Frazer Wright
Frazer Wright
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were long serving industrial reporters; and Robert Chesshyre, Michael Crouch
Michael Crouch
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, Will Mather, Jack Reedy, Martin Davies
Martin Davies
Sir Martin Davies CBE FBA FSA was a British museum director and civil servant.Davies read mathematics and modern languages at Cambridge University. He first joined the staff of the National Gallery, the institution to which he was to devote his career, as an attaché in 1930...
; Alf Dow, a news editor who was later the company's first training officer, and ended his career as PRO at Newton Chambers & Co.Ltd; Richard Gregory, who became a leading figure at Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
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and was later chairman of the Yorkshire Bank
Yorkshire Bank
Yorkshire Bank is a commercial bank in England and Wales, a division of Clydesdale Bank, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank. It mostly operates in the North of England, especially in Yorkshire. In 2006 underlying profit rose 16.7 per cent to £454 million compared with a...
; George Hopkinson; Jean Rook
Jean Rook
Jean Kathleen Rook was an English journalist dubbed The First Lady of Fleet Street for her regular opinion column in the Daily Express...
, who was later famous as a women's writer with the "Daily Express"; Joe Steeples; and Will Wyatt
Will Wyatt
Will Wyatt is a British media consultant and company director, formerly a journalist, television producer and senior executive at the BBC. His career began in 1964 as a trainee journalist on the Sheffield Telegraph newspaper, before moving to the BBC in 1965 as a sub-editor in BBC radio news...
.
The paper's London staff have included William "Bill" Duck, John Morris, who was later general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control; Andrew (Drew) Webster; and Alan Hubbard. Graham Cawthorne was the paper's best-known Parliamentary reporter in the post-war era.
Editors
- 1855: Benson
- 1855: Pearce
- 1858: William Shepherdson
- 1864: William C. Leng
- 1902: R. H. Dunbar
- 1910: David M. Sutherland
- 1912: John Oakley
- 1937: Keith Gardiner
- 1955: Bill Lyth
- 1962: David Hopkinson
- 1964: Michael J. Finley
- 1969: Michael Hides
- 1983: Peter Darling
External links
- http://www2.sheffieldtoday.net/telegraph/homepage/index.htm
- http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk