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The Daily Telegraph
🇬🇧UK ·
newspaper · independent
· telegraph.co.uk
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| Founded | 1855-06-29 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom no source on file |
| Funding | Telegraph Media Group Limited (publisher of The Daily Telegraph) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Axel Springer SE (Germany) as of 30 June 2026, following Axel Springer's £575m acquisition from a consortium led by Lloyds Banking Group/RedBird IMI-linked entities. Axel Springer SE itself returned to debt-free, wholly family-owned status on 29 April 2025, with Friede Springer and Mathias Döpfner named as its primary shareholders; KKR and CPP Investments, which previously held stakes in Axel Springer, retained interests only in the separately spun-off classifieds businesses (Stepstone, Aviv), not in the media company that owns Telegraph Media Group. No state entity holds a stake in Axel Springer SE or in Telegraph Media Group. |
| Reach | 1,035,710 total subscriptions as of December 2023 (117,586 print, 688,012 digital, 230,112 other); ABC-audited circulation of 317,817 as of December 2019. |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
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Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
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| Axel Springer SE | company | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| Friede Springer | person | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| Mathias Döpfner | person | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Chief Executive Officer, Telegraph Media Group
German media executive; named CEO of Telegraph Media Group effective 30 June 2026 following Axel Springer's acquisition of TMG; previously CEO of Bild and of the Welt Group, both at Axel Springer.
Editor, The Daily Telegraph
Editor of The Daily Telegraph since 2014; joined the paper as a news editor in January 2007; chairs the IPSO Editors' Code of Practice Committee.
Journalists
International Business Editor · international business · economics
Long-serving Telegraph journalist covering global politics and economics for over three decades, based at various times in Europe, the US and Latin America; formerly the paper's Brussels correspondent (1999-2004).
Associate Editor and Executive Editor · politics · royal affairs · comment
Joined The Daily Telegraph in September 2018 as associate editor; became executive editor in April 2024; writes a weekly column and co-hosts the paper's Daily T podcast.
Columnist · politics · comment
Columnist for The Daily Telegraph and co-host, with Camilla Tominey, of the paper's Daily T podcast; also a historian.
Columnist and Chief Interviewer · comment · interviews
Columnist and chief interviewer at The Daily Telegraph as of 2025; also a novelist.
Covers
What we hold from them
Nothing held from this outlet yet.
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
RTÉ says the Irish economy grew a healthy 3.1%. The Irish Times, from the same release, says growth stalled.
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TheJournal.ie calls the Dover marchers anti-immigrant. RTÉ quotes a councillor — and counts hundreds, then dozens
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RTÉ says "allegations", Novara says "busted", the Morning Star says "scandal"
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RTÉ says a car. The Irish Times and TheJournal.ie say a jeep — under one byline.
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RTÉ says the Stormont review uncovered nothing. The Irish Times says nothing was sent to it.
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‘Top of the class in EU’ v ‘getting weaker at maths and reading’ — one set of scores, one morning
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National Post says $28bn of US imports; The Independent says about $20bn
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Morning Star says eleven MPs barred, the Independent says twelve — and its list includes a non-MP
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RTÉ says the thieves dropped two Renoirs, TheJournal.ie says one
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The Guardian says about 300 flights cancelled, RTÉ says 425, TheJournal.ie says around 200
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