The Daily Telegraph

''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative 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''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858.

In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. Both papers are politically conservative and support the Conservative Party, although the ''Daily Telegraph'' was moderately liberal before the late 1870s.

''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including an eyewitness account of the outbreak of the Second World War by a novice reporter, Clare Hollingworth, which has been described as "the scoop of the century"; the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, which led to a number of high-profile political resignations and for which the paper was named 2009 British Newspaper of the Year; its 2016 undercover investigation of the England football manager Sam Allardyce; and the Lockdown Files in 2023.

In May 2025, an investment management firm, RedBird Capital Partners, announced plans to acquire the newspaper's publisher for £500 million (about US$674 million), but the deal collapsed in November 2025.

In March 2026, the Telegraph Media Group was acquired for £575 million by the German company Axel Springer SE. The transaction involved purchasing the shares of the previous owner, RedBird IMI, after its own takeover attempt had failed due to political concerns raised by the UK government. Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner described the acquisition as a long‑standing goal and stated that the company intends to preserve the Telegraph’s editorial character while advancing its international expansion, particularly within the English‑speaking world. Provided by Wikipedia