The Daily Telegraph

The The Daily Telegraph is a company incorporated on June 29, 1855 British daily newspaper based in London, whose owners Telegraph Media Group Limited is headquartered in London.

Profile

The Telegraph Group is in the UK have a combined market share of around 7 percent and previously belonged to the group Hollinger International. Plans of the German Axel Springer Publishing House (The World, picture) to take over in May 2004, the Daily Telegraph, together with the Virgin founder Richard Branson, have failed because of different price expectations. The tender was awarded to the Scottish billionaire Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay. The Barclay twins paid for this 665 million pounds sterling, or about the equivalent of one billion euros.

With a daily circulation ( average circulation ) of 783 210 copies was the Daily Telegraph in January 2009 one of the best-selling British newspapers. Your annual income amounts to about 30 million pounds sterling. Sister newspaper is the weekly newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. Another title of the group is the magazine The Spectator. The online newspaper The Telegraph also belongs to the group.

The Daily Telegraph is deemed traditional conservative oriented and politically close to the Conservative Party ( Tories ), so that he received the designation Torygraph by the British magazine Private Eye. In a poll conducted in 2005, which party would you vote in the next election, gave 64% most of the readers of the Telegraph, the Conservative Party to which she placed far ahead of all other newspapers.

The Telegraph is a founding member of the European Dailies Alliance ( EDA), in which the daily newspapers Die Welt, Le Figaro (France) and ABC ( Spain) to work together in the international editorial coverage.

History

A published on October 28, 1908 interview with the German emperor Wilhelm II, which provoked abroad, triggered the so-called Daily Telegraph affair. She led in Germany to a domestic crisis.

The sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph came out for the first time on 5 February 1961. After 40 -year break, this was the first new British Sunday newspaper.