Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciplesIn 1986, 131 years after the Daily Telegraph was founded, its editor, Max Hastings, wrote a memo...
Read MoreLisa Nandy says there are no grounds to refer Axel Springer deal to Ofcom, ending almost three years of uncertainty for titlesBusiness live – latest updatesThe culture secretary has cleared Axel Springer’s £575m takeover of the...
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Read MoreBBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being ‘scraped and copied’A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers to back...
Read MoreExclusive: Figures led by New York Sun owner may seek judicial review after restrictions lifted on DMGT offerFigures involved in a rival bid for the Telegraph are drawing up legal action against the government, after it gave the...
Read MoreCMA and Ofcom to examine DMGT takeover amid fears merger could curb ‘diverging editorial stances’ in pressLisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has referred the Telegraph’s proposed sale to the publisher of the Daily Mail to the...
Read MoreThe Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapersWaiting two decades for another chance to snaffle a prized business acquisition is a...
Read MoreLetter from rights groups says RedBird Capital’s proposed takeover threatens media pluralism and transparencyA group of nine human rights and freedom of expression organisations have called on the culture secretary to halt...
Read MoreExclusive: Cross-party group including peers warns of risk of ‘potential Chinese state influence’ in private equity firmA cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on ministers to investigate how a US private equity company...
Read MoreExclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatoryDaily Telegraph readers have woken up this week to successive front-page headlines alleging a grave threat to free speech,...
Read MoreBackers are reportedly told the former prime minister has been sounded out as paper’s global editor-in-chief Boris Johnson has reportedly been courted for an executive role with the Daily Telegraph by a potential bidder for the...
Read MoreX owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention campsElon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to...
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