Derby Telegraph

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Northcliffe House, Meadow Road, home of the Derby Evening Telegraph, pictured in 1981

The Derby Evening Telegraph is an afternoon tabloid newspaper printed and distributed in Derby, England. The paper was first published in 1879 by Eliza Pike. It was known at the time as the Derby Daily Telegraph and was a four-page broadsheet which cost a halfpenny.

The first editor was WJ Piper who stayed in the post until his death in 1918. He was succeded by William Gilman who in 1927, saw the paper sold three times in a series of months, eventally ending up in the hands of its current owners Northcliffe Newspaper Group, which is part of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The same company also publishes the Derby Express - a weekly advertising-funded free newspaper.

The paper was originally housed at the Corn Market in the town centre, It was refurbished in 1918 after the First World War but it outgrew these premises in 1929 and moved to the Corn Exchange. It stayed there until 1981 when it moved to its current home on Meadow Road.

It is published on Mondays to Saturdays and is the principal local newspaper for Derby and surrounding parts of southern Derbyshire. The newspaper has a local focus with usually just one page reserved for national and international news. Back issues from 1879 until the present day can be viewed at the Derby Local Studies Library or the British Library Newspaper Collection at Colindale, London. It is now for sale for 34 pence.

The current editor is Steve Hall, a Derbyshire man who was brought up in Ilkeston. He took over from Mike Norton in 2006 when Mr Norton became Editor in Chief of the Bristol Evening Post. Mr Norton had previously been deputy editor of the Derby Telegraph while it was edited by Keith Perch between 1997 and 2000. Previous editors have included Mike Lowe, Neil Fowler, Alex Leys and Mike Wood.

Well-known Evening Telegraph journalists of the recent past have included the long-serving sports editor and chief football correspondent Gerald Mortimer, author of several books on Derby County Football Club, feature-writer and columnist Lucy Orgill, and theatre correspondent Geoff Hammerton.

Bygones

The Bygones section of the Derby Evening Telegraph is published from Monday to Saturday, with an eight-page supplement on Mondays. The newspaper also produces a monthly nostalgia publication called YesterdayToday.

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