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Tyler Morning Telegraph
Daily newspaper serving Tyler, Texas, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Tyler Morning Telegraph is a daily online newspaper based in Tyler, Texas, United States. It currently prints Wednesdays, Friday, and a Saturday/Sunday weekend edition available for delivery by mail or in many locations across Smith County for sale. It is owned by CMG Texas.
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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.[2]
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.[4] New ownership went into effect on December 1, 2018, ending 108 years of ownership by the Butler family.[1][2] In 2024, M. Roberts Media was acquired by Carpenter Media Group.[5]
On September 11, 2024 the Tyler Paper became available by mail only for subscribers. It remains available at many convenient locations across East Texas to purchase.
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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] The newspaper issued a retraction, and published multiple follow-up articles detailing how the mistake occurred.[7]
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.
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