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 T & A building, in 2009 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Newsquest |
| Editor | Nigel Burton |
| Founded | 1868 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Bradford |
| Circulation | 3,732 (as of 2024)[1] |
| ISSN | 0307-3610 |
| Website | thetelegraphandargus |
TheTelegraph & Argus is the dailynewspaper forBradford,West Yorkshire, England. It is published six times each week, from Monday to Saturday inclusive. The newspaper has offices in Newhall Way, Bradford, from where its journalists work. Locally, the paper is known as theT&A. It also breaks news 24/7 on its website.
Founded in 1868, the paper was abroadsheet until 1989 when it becametabloid. It features a range of news, features, sport, lifestyle articles, classified advertising and special supplements.[2]
TheTelegraph & Argus is owned byNewsquest, the second largest publisher of regional newspapers in theUnited Kingdom, which is owned by the American media empireGannett. Perry Austin-Clarke was editor from 1992 to 2017, making him the paper's longest-serving editor.[3] As of 2017, the editor was Nigel Burton.[4]
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The Bradford Daily Telegraph was founded by a Scot, Thomas Shields (1832–1887).[5] Upon his death, two of his siblings, Agnes Shields (1835–1920) and Archibald Barr Shields (1842–1905) assumed control. In 1898, Agnes and Archibald Shields soldThe Telegraph to a newly formed entity, the Bradford and District Newspaper Company. The company's chairman wasJames Hill (1849–1936) — a successful wool merchant who would later be knighted and serve as the Liberal MP forBradford Central. Meredith Thompson Whittaker (1841–1931), an experienced newspaper executive, was appointed managing director. Whittaker was a brother of SirThomas Palmer Whittaker (1850–1919),M.P. forSpen Valley. Other members of the board included Alfred Holden Illingworth (1869–1925) and his 1st cousin,Percy Holden Illingworth (1869–1915); David Wade (1846–1915); and Thomas Whiteley (1850–1923), great grandfather ofJohn Richard Whiteley (1943–2005).[5]
TheArgus Weekly occupied Argus Chambers in the Britannia House building over a century ago. TheYorkshire Evening Argus and theBradford Daily Telegraph newspapers later combined to form theBradford Telegraph & Argus, which has occupied its present building, the formerMilligan and Forbes Warehouse for some decades. "Bradford" was dropped from the title in the 1930s, when the paper's circulation area spread across much of West Yorkshire. At one time it had branch offices in nine towns across the region, as well as an office in Morecambe, the Lancashire coastal resort to which many Bradfordians went to retire. At its height the paper's daily sale exceeded 130,000. It is now about one tenth of that figure. Thirty-six years ago a new wing with a skin of dark glass was added to house the printing presses, and these machines can be seen through the windows from the street. However, they are no longer to be seen working, since the newspaper further reduced it economic connection with the city in November 2014 by moving its printing operation to Middlesbrough, in Teesside, while making its Bradford press room staff redundant.[a] Much of the newspaper's advertising content is now typeset in India.
There are plans to sell the building itself now that the presses have been sold off piecemeal. Thus it is no longer technically a Bradford newspaper.[citation needed]
On 1 December 1936, it was reporter Ronald Harker from theTelegraph and Argus whose report on a speech by BishopAlfred Blunt of Bradford casting oblique doubt on the piety of KingEdward VIII, when referred to thePress Association, sparked the public controversy surrounding theAbdication Crisis.[6] News of Bishop Blunt's doubts also provoked contrary opinions, such as those ofDarlington clergyman the Rev.Robert Anderson Jardine, who subsequently conducted the wedding service of theDuke of Windsor andWallis Warfield.[citation needed]
Jasper Patterson (1848–1927), foundingcompositor (print manager) for theBradford Daily Telegraph (first printing was 16 July 1868), later, after Shields' death, left theTelegraph to found his own newspaper, theBradford Daily ArgusLCCN sn88-88279, which ran from 16 June 1892, to 15 July 1923.
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