The two papers came under common ownership and became daily morning and afternoon newspapers, respectively (with a combined Sunday edition), in 1927, Virgil Highland, one of the owners of The Telegram, was instrumental in the merger of the two under the Clarksburg Publishing Co., also formed in 1927.

[4][5] The Telegram began as a Unionist Republican weekly The National Telegraph in 1861, founded by Robert Northcutt, but temporarily suspended after Northcott enlisted with the Union and was subsequently captured and held in Libby prison.

[6] After the end of the Civil War, Northcott continued publishing, and was described by Rowell's directory as one of the more influential and reliable West Virginia weeklies, "zealously support[ing] the Grant administration" and protective tariffs.

[8] In 1891, a group of Clarksburg men purchased the Telegram from Northcott, and for over a decade helped grow the paper into one of the most prominent in central West Virginia.

Under Jarvis's ownership, the paper grew the digital audience to more than 300,000 unique users a month in 2016, and expanding the newsroom staff by five positions.