The Telegraph, Nashua’s daily newspaper and the second-largest daily newspaper in New Hampshire, is selling its Hudson building.

The news company, which provides print and digital news and advertising, plans to move to Nashua, where it has had its roots since 1832.

Telegraph publisher Jim Konig said, “It is with much excitement we look forward
to the opportunity to return The Telegraph back to its beginning in Nashua.”

“It’s paramount to get back into the downtown area so that we become a more active member of the community,” said Telegraph managing editor Phil Kincade. “It’s best for newspapers, and it’s best for journalism.”

The paper’s 80,000-
square-foot building in a south Hudson industrial park once held two large printing presses and automated inserting operations as well as its news, advertising and support staff. The Telegraph moved to Hudson from Nashua in 1984.

“Although we serve many communities – Hudson, Amherst, Milford and so many more – Nashua is still home to the Telegraph,” Konig said.

The Telegraph had begun the process to sell the building in 2012, when it was still owned by Independent Publications Inc., of Bryn Mawr, Pa. The newspaper and its associated weekly papers, including the Milford Cabinet, was sold in 2013 to Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling, W.Va.

“In the 1980s, newspapers throughout the state abandoned their city cores and moved their presses and distribution centers outside the city because they thought that it would be more convenient,” Kincade said. “What it did is we found ourselves really becoming disconnected from our communities that we covered.

“It means a lot to be able to walk out your door and be a block from city hall. Then, people who are part of your newsroom are walking through the community every day, talking to the people who are the newsmakers.”

Other newspaper businesses in the state have sold their real estate in recent years or currently have property on the market. The Manchester Union Leader, the daily covering the state’s largest city, is selling its 173,000-square-foot building on William Loeb Drive in Manchester.

Seacoast Media Group, which runs newspapers covering the state’s Seacoast region as well as parts of Maine, consolidated its office and printing operation into one 73,000-square-foot building at the Pease International Tradeport in 2007.

The Telegraph ended its own printing operation in 2011 as part of efforts to cut costs in the face of a changing newspaper market, which has cut all newspapers’ advertising income. The Telegraph sold its presses and inserting machines, laying off 40 people and ending a 178-year run of self-publishing.

Don Himsel can be reached at 594-6590 or dhimsel@nashuatelegraph.com. Also, follow Himsel on Twitter (@Telegraph_DonH).