The ''Community Telegraph'' was a free distribution newspaper published by
Independent News & Media
Mediahuis Ireland (formally Independent News and Media (INM) )) is a media organisation that is based in Dublin and publishes national daily newspapers, Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers and operates multiple websites including Independent. ...
.
The newspaper, a sister paper of the paid-for title, ''
The Belfast Telegraph
The ''Belfast Telegraph'' is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media. Its editor is Eoin Brannigan. Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured by the Protestant pop ...
'', was created in order to replace its direct predecessor, the now defunct ''
Herald and Post'', also a freesheet.
The ''Community Telegraph'' was distributed weekly in four editions throughout north, south, east
Belfast
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and
County Down
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,
Northern Ireland
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. Its paid-for competitors were the ''
North Belfast News
The ''North Belfast News'' is a weekly newspaper published by the Belfast Media Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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'' and ''
South Belfast News
The ''South Belfast News'' is a newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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'' from the
Andersonstown News
The Belfast Media Group's ''Andersonstown News'' is a weekly published (Wednesdays) Belfast, Northern Ireland newspaper, which focuses on news and issues in west Belfast. The paper was founded in 1972.
Its stablemates, the ''North Belfast New ...
group, and the ''
Bangor Spectator
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* Bangor, County Down
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'' and ''
Newtownards Chronicle
The Newtownards Chronicle, (formally The Newtownards Chronicle & Co. Down Observer) established in 1873, is a local weekly newspaper based in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, serving the communities of Ards, Ards peninsula and the Greater Ards area ...
''. In April 2007 the paper was relaunched as The CT and in June that year
websitewas launched.
One journalist was assigned to each edition and was responsible for all aspects of editorial production - writing stories, taking photographs, designing pages and publishing on the internet. Leading UK media commentator Roy Greenslade ha
the model as one which other newspapers may adopt due to the potential for huge cost savings.
The ''Community Telegraph'' (and its four editions) was closed in December 2013, with INM describing the titles as "no longer sustainable" in light of falling print advertising revenues.
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Mass media in Belfast
Newspapers published in Northern Ireland
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