The newspaper struggled until W. C. Leng became editor in 1864, moving the business to Aldine Court, introducing Linotype printing and using it to support the Conservative Party.

In 1989, the Sheffield Telegraph was relaunched, and published weekly, on Fridays, and featuring a large property section.

In January 2007, the total average issue readership for the Sheffield Telegraph was reported to be 64,093.

[5] Notable staff at the Telegraph have included author Peter Tinniswood; novelists John Harris and J.L.

Hodson; cartoonist J. F. Horrabin for the daily and Pete McKee and James Whitworth for the weekly; critics George Linstead and E. F. Watling; sports writers John Motson, Lawrence Hunter, Frank Taylor (journalist) (who later survived the Munich Air crash of 1958), sub-editor Israel Panner; news editor Brian Stevenson; industrial reporter Frazer Wright ; George Hopkinson; Jean Rook, who was later a women's writer with the Daily Express; and Will Wyatt.