Britain’s best- selling quality daily ?

1. Britain’s best-sellingqualitydaily ? Léa Marquis M2 – Journalisme

2. IdentityCard : • Founded in June1855 • By Arthur B. Sleighas The Daily Telegraph and Courier • Owned by billionairebrothersDavid and Frederick Barclay since 2004 • Format broadsheet (still) : « Impact, not compact. » • Daily circulationof 634,113 in July 2011 (compared to 441,205 for The Times) • Nicknamed the Torygraph for its close ties to the conservative party • Slogan : « the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world  » in 1855, then « Britain’s best-sellingqualitydaily », now « telegraph.co.uk »

3. History Founded in 1855 by Arthur Sleigh. He controlled it only briefly before selling it to his printer, Joseph Moses Levy. He relaunched the paper on September 17. His most significant and successful move was reducing the price of the paper to a penny, the first of the "penny press." Within twelve months the new paper was outselling The Times. 1937: the newspaper absorbed the Morning Post, which had traditionally espoused a Conservative position and sold predominantly amongst the retired officer class. For some years the paper was retitledThe Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph. 1961 : Birth of The Sunday Telegraph. 1986 : owned by Conrad Black, a Canadian businessman. 2004 : Barclay brothers bought the newspaper. The Daily Telegraph continues to be the highest selling British "national quality" newspaper.

4. David and Frederick Barclay • Twins, born on 27 October 1934 • Variety of businesses in media, retail and property

5. The sister paper of The Daily Telegraph • Founded in February1961 • Published only on Sunday • A different editorial staff, although there is some cross-usage of stories • Some supplements : Money, Home and Living, Sport, Travel, Business… • Circulation : 501,379 (July 2010)

6. PoliticalViews • At the beginning : Liberal • On the right, support Conservative Party • The Torygraph • Pro-Atlantic Alliance and Eurosceptical • Pro-Israël • Sir David Barclay suggested that The Daily Telegraph might in the future no longer be the "house newspaper" of the Conservative Party. • "Where the government are right we will support them." The editorial board continued to endorse the Conservatives in the 2005 general election.

7. According to a MORI survey conducted in 2005, 64% of Telegraph readers intended to support the Conservative Party in the coming elections.

8. Othercharacteristics • The Court Circular • Pugnacious and engaged • Cartoon by Matt • The Young Telegraph: a 14-page supplement in the weekend edition. A mixture of news, features, cartoon strips and product reviews aimed at 8–12 year olds.

9. The website • Telegraph.co.uk • The first British daily to go online in 1994 • Traditional content + podcasts, videos and blogs • A digital edition • 1.7 million daily browsers • 2006 :its printed and Internet offices are one and the same. The Telegraph Media Group. • Awards • My Telegraph

10. The Daily Telegraph’s hub-and-spokes newsroom

11. An example Welcome to the union of unequals 4 November 2011 – London • It should surprise no one that George Papandreou’s proposal for a national referendum on the latest European bail-out deal should have lasted just 72 hours before being bulldozed into oblivion by the Germans and French. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy made not the slightest attempt to observe any diplomatic niceties as they turned their fire on this troublesome outbreak of democracy. The Greek referendum must not be allowed to happen, they insisted – and lo, it will not. It was brutal to watch. • Welcome to the new Europe. It is now generally accepted that the move towards fiscal as well as monetary union is the only feasible way in which the single currency can be made to work. Yet it will mean such bullying becomes the norm, since national sovereignty will routinely have to play second fiddle to the diktats not only of the European Central Bank, but also of a central European Treasury, whose creation can now only be a matter of time. Both will, of course, be dominated by the monetary union’s pre-eminent economy, Germany.

12. This is where all the high-flown verbiage about the great European project collides with the hard reality of power. Germany is able to assert its sovereign rights because it has the economic clout to do so. Peripheral nations such as Greece and Ireland are swatted aside. Transfixed as they are by their obsession with shoring up the euro, it does not seem to occur to Europe’s political elites that the seeds are being sown not of an ever-closer union of equals, but of an unhappy alliance with one dominant partner. This could bode ill for the entire European Union. • Meanwhile, the immediate crisis has now reached such a pitch that the International Monetary Fund will have to play a significant role in any recovery plan. David Cameron is right to argue that, while this country will not back any direct IMF investment in a eurozone bail-out, it stands ready – as a founder member of the fund – to make more money available if required. • This unholy mess is of the eurozone’s own making, and it ought to be up to its members to sort it out. But in the face of this disaster, every nation could find itself dragged into the abyss.