Belfast Telegraph
The Belfast Telegraph – known colloquially as the “Tele” – is a daily tabloid newspaper and the biggest selling newspaper published in Northern Ireland.
Founded in 1870 as the Belfast Evening Telegraph, it now produces several different editions. The “City Edition” distributed at lunchtime in the Greater Belfast area and the evening “Final Edition” remain the most popular.
The morning edition, launched in 2005 as a freesheet with more lightweight content, was originally titled the Belfast Telegraph:am but recently dropped the suffix. In the meantime it had already become a paid-for paper (apart from a relatively small number of pickup copies), with essentially the same news content as the later editions barring updates and breaking news. All editions have now adopted a strapline of “Northern Ireland’s Daily Newspaper”.
Other editions include a “County Edition”, the North West Telegraph for the area around Derry, and a “Final Edition” on Saturdays. All are now in tabloid format, after a period where they were available in both broadsheet and tabloid format.
There’s also an associated Sunday tabloid, the Sunday Life.
It’s owned by international publishing group Independent News and Media, which also owned the quality national newspapers The Independent and the Independent on Sunday until early 2010. In terms of Northern Ireland politics, its stance is considered to be moderate Unionist.
Although it’s fundamentally a paid-for newspaper, a substantial number of copies – nearly 10,000 a day – are distributed free from pick-up points at retailers and institutes of further and higher education across the circulation area.
- Website:
- http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/
- Address:
- Belfast Telegraph
124-144 Royal Avenue
BELFAST
BT1 1EB
- Tel:
- 028 9026 4000
- Fax:
- 028 9033 1332
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