Tyler Morning Telegraph

The Tyler Morning Telegraph is a daily newspaper based in Tyler, Texas, United States. It is privately owned by M. Roberts Media. The media group currently owns and operates several newspapers, Lifestyles magazine, Butler Creative Group, and other niche publications previously published by T.B. Butler Publishing.[2]


Top: Tyler Morning Telegraph office
Above: Front page of February 13, 2019 issue
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)M. Roberts Media
PresidentStephen McHaney
Founded1877 (as the Courier)
Headquarters100 E. Ferguson, Suite 501.
Tyler, TX 75702
United States
Circulation22,556 daily
27,568[1]
Websitetylerpaper.com mrobertsmedia.com

The newspaper was previously privately owned by the T.B. Butler Publishing Company, Inc. 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.[3]

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 Web address.

It does not publish on Christmas Day.

With the death in 2007 of publisher Nelson Clyde, III, the management of the paper passed to his son and then-associate publisher, Nelson Clyde, IV. On November 28, 2018, T.B.Butler Publishing announced the sale of the Tyler Morning Telegraph to media company, M. Roberts Media under president Stephen McHaney.[4] New ownership went into effect on December 1, 2018, ending 108 years of ownership by the Butler family.[5]

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".[6][7][8] After criticism, the newspaper subsequently issued a retraction, stating that: "This was inserted by one person and does not represent the views or opinions of the Tyler Morning Telegraph."

References
  1. "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. Archived from the original on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  2. "Portfolio". M. Roberts Media. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  3. "About Us". TylerPaper.com. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  4. "About Us". M. Roberts Media. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  5. news@tylerpaper.com, Staff Reports. "Tyler Morning Telegraph being acquired by M. Roberts Media". TylerPaper.com. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  6. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-newspaper-inaccurately-describes-capitol-rioters-members-antifa-dressed-trump-n1253575
  7. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2021/01/08/texas-newspaper-blasted-for-photo-caption-falsely-saying-rioting-trump-supporters-were-antifa-in-disguise/
  8. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/newspaper-rioters-photo-antifa/


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