The Torrington Telegram is an American daily newspaper based in the USA's capital city of Torrington, District of Kennedy (formerly known as the town of Torrington, Wyoming). The Telegram enjoys a readership throughout the United States and the North American Union, and increasingly across the rest of the continent of North America, and even overseas.
When it comes to covering the news and happenings of the reborn USA's capital city and its resident political class, the Torrington Telegram is seen as the news source that is "closest to the action." It has gradually become known as the "newspaper of record" in the United States.
Humble Beginnings[]
The Telegram started out in 1911 as a tiny local periodical for a humble town on the Wyoming prairie. It would remain a small circulation paper for decades, until the world was jolted into a new configuration in 1983.
Doomsday and Aftermath[]
A section of the front page of the Telegram's Special Edition reporting the arrival of Governor Herschler's convoy as well as the news that the convoy brought.
For the first few weeks after Doomsday, the Telegram's staff waited frantically to hear any news coming from any travelers, as electronic communications with the rest of the country had been lost. When Wyoming Governor Ed Herschler arrived with his convoy of government officials (as part of President Reagan's emergency plan), the Telegram's staff finally had a fresh batch of high-level people to interview. Although the officials were reticent, they truthfully knew little-to-know information that was classified, so the majority of what they knew could be told to the Telegram's eager reporters. The Telegram used its (thankfully analog) printing presses to produce the first post-Doomsday edition of the newspaper, breathlessly reporting every bit of information that they had gathered from the Governor's caravan and other travelers about the events of Doomsday across the country and in the rest of Wyoming.
Rise in Stature[]
The frontpage headline of the Torrington Telegram celebrating the Provisional United States government officially dropping the "Provisional" label and affirming itself as the continuation of the United States of America.
As the nation rose from the ashes from its new base in Torrington, the now-growing town's newspaper of record would become the nation's newspaper of record. Its central location in the nation's new capital gave it instant access to the comings-and-goings of the nation's leaders. This gave it a quick ability to "scoop" other papers by breaking nationally-important news first. This sparked massive interest in the paper's contents across the USA, and for the first time in its history, the Telegram achieved a nationwide readership.
The Paper of Record[]
By the 2010's, the Library of Congress was making sure to stockpile all issues of the Telegram in its archives.
Copies of the Telegram began distribution in the United States Atlantic Remnant on Fourth of July weekend in 2013 (a year after the USAR's referendum vote to reunify with the mainland), advancing the newspaper's reach into the Caribbean Sea.
Meanwhile, the Telegram took a huge stride that had once seemed impossible: trans-Pacific distribution.
The Torrington Telegram began shipping copies for sale in Canberra, Australia both to serve the American expat community as well as to feed the interests of Australian readers curious about the rise of the reborn United States of America.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||
