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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Telegraph Media Group |
Founder(s) | Arthur B. Sleigh |
Editor | Chris Evans[2] |
Founded | 29 June 1855 | (as Daily Telegraph & Courier)
Political alignment | Conservative[3] Right-wing[4][5] |
Headquarters | London, England |
Country | United Kingdom |
Circulation | 317,817 (as of December 2019)[6] |
Sister newspapers | The Sunday Telegraph |
ISSN | 0307-1235 |
OCLC number | 49632006 |
Website | telegraph |
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The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier.[7] The Telegraph is considered a newspaper of record.[8] The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858.[1]
Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, had a circulation of 281,025 as of December 2018.[9] The two sister newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff,[10] but there is cross-usage of stories. It is now politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party.[8] It was politically moderately liberal before the late 1870s.[11]
The Telegraph has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, described as "the scoop of the century",[12] the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal – which led to a number of high-profile political resignations and for which it was named 2009 British Newspaper of the Year[13] – its 2016 undercover investigation on the England football manager Sam Allardyce,[14] and the Lockdown Files in 2023.[15]
A trusted paper once considered on the centre-right of politics, the Telegraph has tacked ever further to the fringes in recent years, embracing populist-leaning leaders and their ideas. … Media observers and multiple former Telegraph journalists told the Guardian how it had moved away from its traditional middle-of-the-road conservatism to a far harder, often rightwing populist-leaning paper.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced her candidacy in the right-wing Daily Telegraph newspaper on Sunday evening [...]
The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by British Army officer Colonel Arthur B Sleigh, reportedly to air a personal grievance against Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, in June 1855 after the abolition of stamp duty on newspapers made them more affordable for the general public.
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