The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)

The Telegraph
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Hearst Communications
PublisherDenise VonderHaar
Founded1836
(as the Alton Telegraph)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters219 Piasa St.
Alton, Illinois 62002,
United States
Circulation19,554 daily[1]
ISSN0897-456X
Websitethetelegraph.com

The Telegraph is an American daily newspaper published seven days a week in Alton, Illinois, serving the St. Louis Metro-East region. It was owned by Civitas Media, based in Davidson, North Carolina, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management, which owned about 100 daily and weekly newspapers across 12 states but sold The Telegraph to Hearst Corp. in 2017.

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