The Derby Telegraph’s website and daily newspaper covers news, sport and events across Derby and the wider Derbyshire area. The paper was founded in 1879 as a provincial, four-page halfpenny broadsheet and was the first daily newspaper for, what was then, the town of Derby. Its first editor was W. J Piper, who remained in this post for 39 years, and the newspaper quickly sought to establish itself within the national network of the provincial press. In its first week, it forced the Home Secretary to commute a prisoner’s death sentence to one of penal servitude after uncovering that the jury might have tossed a coin when deciding the verdict. Today, the Derby Telegraph continues to have a flourishing newspaper and it also has its own dedicated website, which is visited by more than 940,000 people a month. In May 2017, the Derby Telegraph scooped a hat-trick of top accolades at the Regional Press Awards – including being crowned Newspaper of the Year. The editor is Steve Hall.