Coventry Telegraph

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Coventry Telegraph

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Trinity Mirror
Editor	Alan Kirby
Founded	1891
Political allegiance	Neutral, Populist
Price	£0.40
Headquarters	Coventry, England
Circulation	46,933 (Jul-Dec 2007)^[1]

Website: http://coventrytelegraph.net

The Coventry Telegraph is a local tabloid newspaper. It was founded in 1891 by William Isaac Iliffe as Coventry's first daily newspaper, with the title 'The Midland Daily Telegraph' - a four-page broadsheet newspaper selling for a ha'penny a copy. It changed its name from the Midland Daily Telegraph to Coventry Evening Telegraph on 17 November 1941,^[2] and to Coventry Telegraph on 2 October 2006. Today it belongs to the Trinity Mirror group, the biggest regional newspaper publisher in the UK.

It has a daily circulation of approximately 47,000 copies [Jul-Dec 2007], with a readership figure of around 140,000.

15 November 1940 was the only day in the paper's history that it wasn't able to publish - due to the Blitz raid on the city.

From Monday 2 October 2006, the publication changed from an evening paper to a morning paper. The newspaper is now available at 6 a.m. along with all other morning newspapers. To reflect this change, the newspaper's name changed to simply 'Coventry Telegraph.'

The switch to a morning paper saw a change in emphasis for the Coventry Telegraph. The printed edition now concentrates on exclusive and community news, leaving breaking news to its new website

The Telegraph is published Monday to Saturday in the following editions:-

City
Warwickshire
Nuneaton

The foundation stone of its current offices at 157 Corporation Street, Coventry, CV1 1FP, was laid by the then proprietor, Lord Iliffe G.B.E, on 21 November 1957.

In 1985, the local radio station Mercia FM and the Telegraph formed the Snowball Appeal - a charitable organisation whose aim is to raise money to help sick and needy children in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Coventry Newspapers Ltd. (managing director: Debbie Davies) comprises the Telegraph together with its sister publications:-

The Coventry Times (formerly The Coventry Citizen.)
The Nuneaton Tribune.
The Hinckley Times.
The Hinckley Herald & Classified Journal.
The Kenilworth, Warwick & Royal Leaminton Spa Times (formerly The Kenilworth Citizen.)
The Bedworth Echo.
The Rugby Times.
Midland FarmAd.
The Midweek Pink.

From 1946 until the end of April 2004, a separate sports publication - 'The Pink' - was printed every Saturday evening. It provided comprehensive coverage of sport from the Midlands, as well as national and international sport. The fortunes of Coventry City F.C. played a prominent role in the Pink's ongoing appeal. With the 1998-99 football season, the Pink became the first regional evening newspaper to provide same day reports from all FA Premiership matches.^[3] Since the end of April 2004, the Pink has been amalgamated into the pages of Saturday morning's Telegraph. The Midweek Pink, targeting the junior sporting scene with reports and pictures from every football league in Coventry and Warwickshire and first published in September 1997,^[4] continues to be printed every Wednesday.