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Former Belfast Telegraph offices, July 2010. The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.
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The Irish News is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister. [4] It merged with the Belfast Morning News in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been The Irish News and Belfast Morning News.
It is the world's oldest English-language general daily newspaper still in publication, having first been printed in 1737. [3] [4] The newspaper's editorial stance and readership, while originally republican at the time of its inception, [5]: 134–164 is now unionist. [1] Its primary competitors are the Belfast Telegraph and The Irish News.
Leaders from several Western countries have welcomed news today that Bashar al-Assad's nearly 25-year rule has ended. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK welcomed the fall of Assad's ...
Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
In Northern Ireland, the main newspapers are The Irish News, seen as pro-Social Democratic and Labour Party, and the Unionist-leaning Belfast Newsletter. The Belfast Telegraph is the main evening newspaper in Northern Ireland. In January 2005 Daily Ireland, which was somewhat supportive of Sinn Féin was launched. It contended (in line with its ...
This was to distinguish the paper from the main daily at the time, The Belfast Evening Telegraph. It focused on Irish Football League coverage and was delivered late on Saturday evenings so that the day's afternoon matches could be reviewed. Circulation declined in the 2000s as more and more people were getting their sports news on the Internet.