The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)

The Telegraph

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Hearst Communications
Publisher	Denise VonderHaar
Founded	1836 (as the Alton Telegraph)
Language	English
Headquarters	219 Piasa St. Alton, Illinois 62002, United States
Circulation	19,554 daily[1]
ISSN	0897-456X
Website	thetelegraph.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.