![]() ![]() The Telegram will celebrate its 115th anniversary this November. (WNI) has 12 papers statewide and News Media Corporation (NMC) has 54 papers nationwide. Torrington News and Torrington Telegram ran simultaneously covering different county and city topics until the Torrington Telegram fully absorbed the Torrington News on Dec. 14, 1925 and later purchased the Goshen County News on April 2, 1953, becoming Torrington News for a brief time. The Telegram bought the Goshen County Journal on Dec. 1929 and after briefly being referred to as the Telegraph again in late-1929, the newspaper organization solidified its name as the Torrington Telegram in 1930 when it upgraded its press machine. The paper was first unofficially known simply as Torrington Telegraph, which would become the official name of a secondary paper in 1911 until the Telegram absorbed it into one newspaper during the Great Depression era.Īccording to a story in the Telegram in Dec. Torrington itself had been a settlement camp since 1813 and popular with fur traders and pioneers westbound and northbound. The unofficial n ewspaper moved into town (where the city sits today) shortly after Torrington was founded in 1900 as a stop along The Oregon, Mormon and Texas trails, all of which went through Torrington to meet on the North Platte River. 7, 1907 and became the paper it still is today. Shortly thereafter, the Torrington Telegram launched its new design and name on Nov. 1907 proclaimed the Telegram as a “bonafied” newspaper once the AP began transmitting wire content to the paper newsroom and print shop. Loomis formed the Telegram, then loosely called the Telegraph, into a bi-monthly publication before becoming a bi-weekly publication after it became nationally recognized by the Associated Press (AP) Wires services in early-1907. Loomis’s family took over the local print-shop which housed the local newspaper-like product and began making it into the paper it is today.īy 1901, L.P. Prior to 1901 settlers who made modern day Torrington and Goshen County their permanent home along the various early settler trails provided a rough community newspaper-like product which was handed down through the same families that settled first in the area. ![]() T he Telegram has been committed to this stance for more than 115 years and continues to strive to deliver high quality, impactful, timely and important content directly to our readers within the County.Īccording to numerous stories throughout decades of newspaper archives housed in the Torrington Telegram newsroom from 1902 through 2022, the Telegram has operated under a number of different names since around mid-1901. Local news is valuable”, referring to how hyper local, local reporters, news organizations and sources have a better understanding of issues impacting the surrounding community than outside organizations do and “We’re not ‘The Media’”, referring to a clear stance that hyper local newspapers are not related to nor associated with national brands and work independently to answer to its readers and/or advertisers in news that matters most to the region. The three goals of the national campaign this year for state and hyperlocal newspapers, like the Telegram includes: “We don’t Do Division,” referring to a balanced approach of news in local markets “Talk is Cheap. 2-8 and was established by the National Press Association it’s being sponsored by the Newspaper Association Managers this year. ![]() GOSHEN COUNTY – Newspapers continue to deliver timely, impactful and ethical journalism across the county today and during the 82nd National Newspaper Week the Telegram is taking a look back through its own history in Torrington for Goshen County, in addition to the history of American newspapers and the industry. ![]() Updated: 7 months ago / Posted Oct 7, 2022 ![]()
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