The Daily Telegraph is a British
broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1855. Excepting the
Financial Times and
The Herald (Glasgow), it is the only remaining national daily newspaper printed on traditional
newsprint in the broadsheet format in the United Kingdom, as most other broadsheet publications have converted to the smaller
tabloid/
compact or
Berliner formats. Its sister paper,
The Sunday Telegraph, was founded in 1961. In October 2007, the
Telegraph was the highest selling British quality paper, with a certified average
daily circulation of 882,413. This compared with a circulation of 642,895 for
The Times, 364,513 for
The Guardian, and 240,134 for
The Independent.
[3] According to a
MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of
Telegraph readers support the
Conservative Party.
[4]In 1908, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave a controversial interview to The Daily Telegraph that severely damaged Anglo-German relations and added to international tensions which eventually culminated in World War I.
In 1928 the son of the 1st Baron Burnham sold it to the 1st Viscount Camrose, in partnership with his brother Viscount Kemsley and the 1st Baron Iliffe. Both the Camrose (Berry) and Burnham (Levy-Lawson) families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986.
In 1937 the newspaper absorbed The Morning Post which traditionally espoused a conservative position and sold predominantly amongst the retired officer class. Originally William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose bought The Morning Post with the intention of publishing it alongside the Daily Telegraph, but poor sales of the former led him to merge the two. For some years the paper was retitled The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph.
