The Tyler Morning Telegraph is a daily newspaper based in Tyler, Texas, United States. It is privately owned by M. Roberts Media.
History
The newspaper begin publishing weekly in 1877 as the Weekly Courier. In 1882, the Daily Courier began publishing daily. In 1906, the Daily Courier and the Weekly Times consolidated into The Tyler Courier-Times. In 1910, the newspaper sold to the Butler family.[2]
The newspaper's Sunday edition is known as the Tyler Morning Telegraph. The Tyler Courier-Times was a sister afternoon paper published until 1995.
The paper uses a white letter T over a blue circle as its logo, changing from the previous stylized paperboy. The paper bills itself as "the Tyler Paper" in advertising and elsewhere, including its URL.
On November 28, 2018, T.B. Butler Publishing announced the sale of the Tyler Morning Telegraph to media company, M. Roberts Media.[4] New ownership went into effect on December 1, 2018, ending 108 years of ownership by the Butler family.[1][2] In 2024, M. Roberts Media was acquired by Carpenter Media Group.[5]
Controversy
In its Friday, January 8, 2021 edition, the newspaper incorrectly captioned an Associated Press photo of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol with "members of antifa dressed as supporters of President Donald Trump".[6] The newspaper issued a retraction, and published multiple follow-up articles detailing how the mistake occurred.[7]
In April 2024, access to tylerpaper.com was banned in the EEA allegedly because of its references to Prince William and Rose Hanbury. The precise banning message was
" 451: Unavailable for legal reasons.
We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."
^Romero, Dennis (8 January 2021). "Texas newspaper inaccurately describes Capitol rioters as 'members of antifa' dressed as Trump supporters". NBC News. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022. A newspaper in Tyler, Texas, on Friday described rioters at the U.S. Capitol as anti-fascists from the political left, but hours later it vowed to correct the characterization. The Tyler Morning Telegraph, which serves the 107,000-population, 50 percent non-white city in East Texas, ran an Associated Press photo of rioters with the caption, "Members of antifa dressed as supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington."
^Steele, Tom (8 January 2021). "Texas newspaper blasted for photo caption falsely saying rioting Trump supporters were antifa in disguise". The Dallas Morning News. ISSN1553-846X. OCLC1035116631. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022. An East Texas newspaper drew condemnation on social media Friday because a photo caption in its print edition misidentified rioting supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol as members of antifa. The photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jose Luis Magana, was transmitted on news wires with a caption reading: "Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the West wall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington." It was used on Page A8 of Friday's Tyler Morning Telegraph alongside an Associated Press article about social-media companies locking Trump out of his accounts because of his inflammatory rhetoric. The caption read: "Members of antifa dressed as supporters of President Donald Trump climb the West wall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington."
