The Telegram moved into its current offices in the Mercantile Center in 2012, leaving a larger building it anchored on Franklin Street. MetroWest Daily News sold its sprawling offices on New York Avenue in 2018 and is now based in a far smaller space on Speen Street. The Telegram, which like many in the industry has suffered from declining advertising and subscription revenue, merged Worcester Magazine into its operations last year, and now runs the weekly publication as an insert. The company employs about 21,000 people, including 5,000 journalists, according to Poynter. Roughly 500 buyouts across the company were accepted in October, according to the journalism industry publication Poynter. Gannett, the country's largest newspaper chain, has since had a series of layoffs, and has slowly integrated the two newspaper companies, including adapting Gannett's website layout. Gannett's flagship publication is USA Today and is based in Virginia. Employees were required to take three weeks of unpaid time off in the late spring and early summer, a period largely coinciding with the first peak of the coronavirus pandemic across the area.Įach of those local Gannett papers were part of the GateHouse chain until late in 2019, when GateHouse bought Gannett for $1.4 billion and assumed the name of its better-known partner. It was already a difficult year for journalists at the Telegram and other Gannett papers, which locally includes the MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News, area weeklies, and daily newspapers in Providence, Quincy, Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford and others in Central and Eastern Massachusetts. The Worcester Telegram & Gazettes eEdition app lets users read an iOS-friendly eEdition of Worcester Countys award-winning daily local newspaper. Dave Nordman, the Telegram's executive editor, told staff in a memo that the newspaper expects to hire four reporters and a copy editor in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, the Herald has weighed in.Staff replacements could be coming soon. He also said the same language will run in tomorrow’s print edition. He said the Telegram has posted an “amplification” on its website that credits the Herald. In 2005, Telegram reporter Ken Powers was fired after lifting material from Sports Illustrated’s Peter King in a column about the Patriots. We used the Herald as a source Saturday with full attribution.”įrench said that he alone was responsible for the mistake, and that he would talk with the Telegram’s publisher about the error, though he hasn’t yet. This is something we take very seriously. I really can’t…this is something we’ve covered with our own reporters, but we use, we look at material from other sources. When asked whether it was standard practice for the Telegram to use another paper’s reporting without attribution, French said, “No, no it’s not. The Telegram is owned by the New York Times Company, which also owns the Herald’s chief competitor, the Boston Globe. Reached this morning at the Telegram office, French told Boston Daily that he’d spoken with McPhee, but that the Telegram had no plans to run a correction or an apology at this point. “It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead,” said Darrel Slater, 55… “How does a guy who killed his mother, get charged with more crimes, get out of jail? How can he leave the state?” Two days earlier, the same quote appeared word-for-word in a Herald story penned by Michele McPhee and Jessica Van Sack: … How does a guy who killed his mother, gets charged with more crimes, get out of jail? How can he leave the state?” Darrel Slater said, “It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead.
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