The ''Bluefield Daily Telegraph'' is a newspaper based in

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, and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties,

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; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties,

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(including the town of

Bluefield, Virginia Bluefield is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States, located along the Bluestone River. The population was 5,096 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is part of the Bluefield, West Virginia, Bl ...

). It publishes online Monday through Saturday. A print edition is distributed Tuesday through Saturday. The ''Bluefield Daily Telegraph'' was launched on January 16, 1896, by long-time editor Hugh Ike Shott, who at one point controlled Bluefield's newspaper, both leading radio stations, and only television station.

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winner

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Jr., a Bluefield native, worked for a time as an inserter, hand inserting sales pieces into the ''Bluefield Daily Telegraph'' before going on to a distinguished career in

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. The weekly ''Princeton Times'', covering

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, is also published at the ''Bluefield Daily Telegraph'' office. Both newspapers are owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc, who acquired them from

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in 2000.The Register-Herald: Department Email Information
accessed January 20, 2007.

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External links

''Daily Telegraph'' Website

CNHI Website

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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