A brand new look to celebrate our 150th birthday
THERE’S no better way of celebrating a milestone than using it as a launchpad for the future. And that’s how the Belfast Telegraph marks its 150th birthday today.
You’ll notice your newspaper looks different this morning as we unveil a redesigned ‘Tele’ complete with a new masthead.
The purpose is to present a cleaner, more modern product to you all. The pages are more open, and allow our best content — words and images — to really stand out. The new colours and logos will be familiar to readers of our belfasttelegraph.co.uk website and followers of our social channels. Using them will unify our print and online product. Hopefully you’ll find the reading experience is enhanced by this simpler layout. The new body font is Nuacht and we’ve increased its size slightly, again with the aim of making the Belfast Telegraph easier to read. To balance the increase in font size, headlines will now be slightly smaller, making sure our readers miss out on nothing.
And please send your feedback to editor@belfasttelegraph.co.uk The layout and fonts may be different but our commitment to the values that have made the Belfast Telegraph a trusted source of news for the last 150 years has not wavered. We’ll continue to ask the hard questions, hold power to account and tell your stories just as we have done throughout our history. We’ll also continue to entertain and inform, as we have done until now.
We’ve put together a ‘highlights package’ of our history in a brilliant 32-page supplement included in today’s paper. You’ll also find more content on the 150 hub on our website, marking a newspaper that’s 51 years older than Northern Ireland, survived two World Wars, been bombed by the Nazis and, more recently, by the IRA when a member of staff, Joseph Patton, was killed.
Even though our base is now in state-of-the-art offices in Clarendon Dock, there are plenty of reminders of our rich history. There’s a round table in the conference room with a golden plaque that says ‘Editor’s Table, Belfast Telegraph, Est. 1870.’
But the sign on that office door is straight out of 2020, stating that no more than two people are allowed in at any time. It’s in this socially-distanced environment that today, September 1, 2020 we celebrate 150 years of The Belfast Telegraph.
Given all that it’s been through, coronavirus is just one more crisis for the Belfast Telegraph to survive. The 21st century media landscape is particularly unstable yet we are investing in our products in print and online. This shows our commitment to the community we serve and we won’t stop here.
We’ll continue to invest in Northern Irish journalism to give you, our readers the quality, trusted content you deserve as we embark on the next 150 years.