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The Daily Telegraph, known online as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as Daily Telegraph & Courier. The Telegraph has been described as a newspaper of record and generally had an international reputation in the twentieth century for quality, described by Amol Rajan as "one of the world's great titles".

The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 523,048 in March 2014, following industry trends has declined from 1.4 million in 1980. Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, had a circulation of 418,670 as of March 2014. The Telegraph once had the largest circulation for a broadsheet newspaper in the UK, though that ended many years ago. The two sister newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff, but there is cross-usage of stories.

The Telegraph has been the first newspaper to report on a number of notable news scoops, including the 2009 MP expenses scandal, which led to a number of high-profile political resignations and for which it was named 2009 British Newspaper of the Year, and its 2016 undercover investigation on the England football manager Sam Allardyce. However, critics, including the paper's former chief political commentator Peter Oborne, accuse it of being unduly influenced by advertisers, especially HSBC.

The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of The Sunday Times, agreed to print the newspaper, and the first edition was published on 29 June 1855. The paper cost 2d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists:
We shall be guided by a high tone of independent action.

However, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper than his main competitors in London, the Daily News and The Morning Post, to expand the size of the overall market. Levy appointed his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, Lord Burnham, and Thornton Leigh Hunt to edit the newspaper. Lord Burnham relaunched the paper as The Daily Telegraph, with the slogan "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world". Hunt laid out the newspaper's principles in a memorandum sent to Levy: "We should report all striking events in science, so told that the intelligent public can understand what has happened and can see its bearing on our daily life and our future. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, to new methods of conducting business".

In 1876, Jules Verne published his novel Michael Strogoff, whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in Siberia. Verne included among the book's characters a war correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, named Harry Blount—who is depicted as an exceptionally dedicated, resourceful and brave journalist, taking great personal risks to follow closely the ongoing war and bring accurate news of it to The Telegraph's readership, ahead of competing papers.

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 in the build-up to World War I. In 1928, the son of Baron Burnham, Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 2nd Baron Burnham, sold the paper to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, in partnership with his brother Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley and Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe.

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. In the late 1930s, Victor Gordon Lennox, The Telegraph's diplomatic editor, published an anti-appeasement private newspaper The Whitehall Letter that received much of its information from leaks from Sir Robert Vansittart, the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, and Rex Leeper, the Foreign Office's Press Secretary. As a result, Gordon Lennox was monitored by MI5. In 1939, The Telegraph published Clare Hollingworth's scoop that Germany was to invade Poland.

In November 1940, with Fleet Street subjected to almost daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, The Telegraph started printing in Manchester at Kemsley House (now The Printworks entertainment venue), which was run by Camrose's brother Kemsley. Manchester quite often printed the entire run of The Telegraph when its Fleet Street offices were under threat. The name Kemsley House was changed to Thomson House in 1959. In 1986, printing of Northern editions of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph moved to Trafford Park and in 2008 to Newsprinters at Knowsley, Liverpool.

During the Second World War, The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park. The ability to solve The Telegraph's crossword in under 12 minutes was considered to be a recruitment test. The newspaper was asked to organise a crossword competition, after which each of the successful participants was contacted and asked if they would be prepared to undertake "a particular type of work as a contribution to the war effort". The competition itself was won by F. H. W. Hawes of Dagenham who finished the crossword in less than eight minutes.

Both the Camrose (Berry) and Burnham (Levy-Lawson) families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986. On the death of his father in 1954, Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose assumed the chairmanship of the Daily Telegraph with his brother Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell as his editor-in-chief. During this period, the company saw the launch of sister paper The Sunday Telegraph in 1960.

Canadian businessman Conrad Black, through companies controlled by him, bought the Telegraph Group in 1986. Black, through his holding company Ravelston Corporation, owned 78% of Hollinger Inc. which in turn owned 30% of Hollinger International. Hollinger International in turn owned the Telegraph Group and other publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post and The Spectator.

On 18 January 2004, Black was dismissed as chairman of the Hollinger International board over allegations of financial wrongdoing. Black was also sued by the company. Later that day, it was reported that the Barclay brothers had agreed to purchase Black's 78% interest in Hollinger Inc. for £245m, giving them a controlling interest in the company, and to buy out the minority shareholders later. However, a lawsuit was filed by the Hollinger International board to try to block Black from selling his shares in Hollinger Inc. until an investigation into his dealings was completed. Black filed a countersuit but, eventually, United States judge Leo Strine sided with the Hollinger International board and blocked Black from selling his Hollinger Inc. shares to the twins.

On 7 March 2004, the twins announced that they were launching another bid, this time just for The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper rather than all of Hollinger Inc. The then owner of the Daily Express, Richard Desmond, was also interested in purchasing the paper, selling his interest in several pornographic magazines to finance the initiative. Desmond withdrew in March 2004, when the price climbed above £600m, as did Daily Mail and General Trust plc a few months later on 17 June.

In November 2004, The Telegraph celebrated the tenth anniversary of its website, Electronic Telegraph, now renamed www.telegraph.co.uk. The Electronic Telegraph launched in 1995 with 'The Daily Telegraph Guide to the Internet' by writer Sue Schofield for an annual charge of £180.00. On 8 May 2006, the first stage of a major redesign of the website took place, with a wider page layout and greater prominence for audio, video and journalist blogs.

On 10 October 2005, The Daily Telegraph relaunched to incorporate a tabloid sports section and a new standalone business section. The Daily Mail's star columnist and political analyst Simon Heffer left that paper in October 2005 to rejoin The Daily Telegraph, where he has become associate editor. Heffer has written two columns a week for the paper since late October 2005 and is a regular contributor to the news podcast. In November 2005 the first regular podcast service by a newspaper in the UK was launched. Just before Christmas 2005, it was announced that The Telegraph titles would be moving from Canada Place in Canary Wharf, to new offices at Victoria Plaza at 111 Buckingham Palace Road near Victoria Station in central London. The new office features a "hub and spoke" layout for the newsroom to produce content for print and online editions.

In October 2006, with its relocation to Victoria, the company was renamed the Telegraph Media Group, repositioning itself as a multimedia company. On 2 September 2008, the Daily Telegraph was printed with colour on each page for the first time when it left Westferry for Newsprinters at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, another arm of the Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch) company. The paper is also printed in Liverpool and Glasgow by Newsprinters. In May 2009, the daily and Sunday editions published details of MPs' expenses. This led to a number of high-profile resignations from both the ruling Labour administration and the Conservative opposition.

Daily sections:
News
Since our launch, our news coverage has been our greatest strength. Trusted for breaking stories with honesty, accuracy, depth and intelligence, The Daily Telegraph is also cherished for its ability to provide powerful, authoritative, emotional and compelling analysis. Our integrated newsroom makes us more than just a morning player. We provide quality content to our customers, when they want it, on a platform they want to receive it on. This has seen our audience become more engaged with a story as they follow its development across platforms and has enabled advertisers to develop a much stronger relationship with our audience as they make their journey. The Daily Telegraph offers greater advertising impact than any compact - not only because it has bigger pages than the compacts but also because readers spend longer with each page than any other quality daily. So, by advertising in our paper, you’ll get greater standout and more exposure.

Business
The Daily Telegraph Business, under the helm of City Editor, Damian Reece, is the only stand-alone, daily Business section. With a minimum eight broadsheet pages Monday-to-Friday, high-profile commentators and expert analysis from Editor-in-chief Jeff Randall, readers are kept up-to-date with the latest news from the City, the UK and the world. The Business section is an invaluable resource for its 1.2 million AB readers, featuring Market news, share prices, Tom Stevenson’s Investment column, industry case studies and advice from Richard Tyler for start-ups - in Your Business every Tuesday.

Sport
The Daily Telegraph Sport section, was the first daily stand-alone Sport section - offering advertisers front-page impact with a highly sought-after audience. Today, in its 24-page tabloid format, the section features sporting legends, such as Alan Hansen on Mondays, Brian Moore every Wednesday and Geoffrey Boycott throughout the summer. Experts, such as Henry Winter, Simon Hughes and Mick Cleary, bring readers the latest news and world-class opinion. Praised for its breadth of coverage, interviews and features, from Athletics to Yachting, there are numerous sponsorship and advertising opportunities, including dedicated supplements and events.

Weekly supplements:
Travel (Wednesday)
The Daily Telegraph’s Travel editorial leads the quality market with more editorial and advertising combined than any other newspaper. Whether uncovering exciting new destinations or revisiting old favourites, the Travel section - edited by Graham Boynton - offers readers an unbeatable combination of inspiration, practical tips and late deals. Editorial regularly covers all key sectors: from short breaks to long haul; from cruising to the latest in eco-friendly travel. There’s Sherelle Jacobs’ popular Room Service column, plus expert advice from Nick Trend and Gill Charlton. Advertising opportunities include display and classified, alongside country or sector-specific editorial, as well as our popular Summer Holiday Guides which are published from January through to March when the section runs at up to 40 pages - bigger than the main news section. In addition, The Daily Telegraph’s Wednesday Travel section is all about city breaks. Opportunities to advertisers are to provide the audience with both long term inspiration and last minute getaways, together with the chance to attract the attention of our huge business readership.

Jobs (Thursday)
Every Thursday, The Daily Telegraph’s dedicated jobs section comprises 14 pages of job listings and essential editorial for business people, especially those working in HR, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, and the Public Sector. Featuring news, case studies and special reports, Jobs keeps modern, ambitious employees up to date with career issues affecting them and expert help and advice. This section, printed on pink paper for high stand-out, features more advertising for commercial aviation, building and construction, engineering, environment and public health, general management, logistics, manufacturing, purchasing, retail and distribution and sales vacancies than any other quality newspaper.

London Property (Thursday)
London Property is the only quality newspaper supplement dedicated to property in London and the South East. Published free inside The Daily Telegraph every Thursday, London Property is the essential guide to buying and investing in the capital and the South-East. Its expert advice covers everything from fabulous Park Lane penthouses to aparthotels and fractional ownership, the dos and don’ts of buying off plan and how the City’s annual bonuses affect the rest of the market. To some, its insights have been worth thousands.

Home In (Thursday)
Home In is the only quality newspaper supplement dedicated to property in the Midlands, North Wales and the North of England. Appearing inside The Daily Telegraph fortnightly on Thursdays, it features property hotspots, new developments, guides to local neighbourhoods including the regions’ gastro delights and exciting cultural attractions, ideas to add value to your home and practical tips on how to make great investments. Covering major cities such as Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle and Liverpool, it offers advertisers a geographically targeted and highly affluent audience.

Property (Saturday)
The weekly Property section in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday is packed with news, consumer features and practical advice. Regular columns include Word on the Street - an up-to-the-minute view of the property market - and Bargain Hunter - the interiors column that seeks out the latest trends for less. The Overseas pages provide ideas and direction for those looking to relocate or buy second homes and the ever-popular Property Clinic answers readers questions on planning and legal issues, the market, mortgages and home improvement. Advertisers looking to reach a targeted audience of affluent property-owners can take advantage of display and classified placements. In addition, special issues, such as the monthly Overseas Property specials, provide further opportunities to reach highly targeted, upmarket audiences.

Motoring (Saturday)
The Daily Telegraph’s stand-alone, 12-page Motoring section leads the market, carrying a higher volume of motoring advertisements than any other quality daily newspaper. The Motoring section has a broad appeal, with observations from James May, must-read first drives, news of what’s new in the showrooms, an expert one-on-one clinic to help readers choose their next car and reviews of the latest accessories. There are also features on classic cars, motorsport and motorcycling, plus expert advice and readers’ questions answered by Honest John, the car dealer you can trust.

Gardening (Saturday)
Whether it’s how to create a perfect border, plant up a window box or grow your own vegetables, The Daily Telegraph’s standalone Gardening section has something for you. Star columnists include Sarah Raven and the ever popular Helen Yemm, who answers readers’ letters. The RHS advisory service offers a weekly reminder of those essential jobs, while many of the brightest minds in horticulture provide authoritative guides to the country’s finest gardens. We also cover allotments, organic-growing, shopping, and tried and tested products. It’s no wonder more adults, who get a good deal of pleasure from their garden, read The Daily Telegraph on Saturday than any other quality newspaper. Advertising opportunities include display and classified.

Weekend (Saturday)
The Daily Telegraph’s Weekend section is the essential companion for the whole family, offering wit and wisdom on parenting, food and drink, wellbeing and the great outdoors. Quite Interesting is a quietly intriguing column from QI, bringing you bizarre and fascinating facts from the week’s chosen topic. In My Perfect Weekend, celebrities reveal what they like to do to relax. Wellbeing brings together everything for your body and soul with health tips, our active page for the more energetic and, of course, our celebrity agony aunts Ruby Wax and Graham Norton. The unrivalled food and drink section sparkles with Susy Atkins advice on wine and Xanthe Clay’s inspired but practical recipes. The parenting pages help readers to cope with the trials and tribulations of family life, including the wit and wisdom of famous bad mother, Stephanie Calman. In addition, articles on school and university combine with our authoritative Education column by Liz Lightfoot. The games page is home to Sudoku and Weekend’s much-loved general knowledge crossword, while the back page is reserved for Mark Palmer’s authoritative restaurant reviews, alongside Pint-to-Pint - our guide to British Pubs - and Nick Barratt’s genealogy column.

Review (Saturday)
18 pages focus on the arts, with star interviews and features on film, theatre, ballet and concerts, staying-in and going-out, the latest DVD, music and video releases and the best of the week’s TV. The Digital Life section is dedicated to technology, with the latest gadgets and websites tested and reviewed, plus our digital doctor, Rick Maybury, answers readers’ questions. Our 11-page Books section brings you interviews and reviews of bestsellers, fiction, non-fiction and paperbacks.

Your Money (Saturday)
The Telegraph is an invaluable companion to its audience, providing services such as its highly regarded personal finance coverage. Your Money gives readers a helping hand with a subject they care deeply about - their personal finance. Your Money, a 14-page section in The Daily Telegraph every Saturday, is essential material for our readers, who, between them, have in excess of £67 billion in investments. Personal Finance Editor, Ian Cowie, picks apart the major issues affecting our savings and investments, explaining what they really mean to us and offers expert opinion and tips on how we can make the most of our money. As well as covering news and views, Your Money provides the latest, most comprehensive investment performance tables, Unit Trust performance and a schedule of the week’s forthcoming dividends. The Telegraph’s personal finance experts also help readers with their savings and investment questions every week.

Telegraph Magazine (Saturday)
The award-winning Telegraph Magazine is an outstanding example of editorial excellence’, striking an enviable balance between glamour and gravitas, definitive yet never predictable. At the heart of this win is an excellent team of the best writers and photographers, the most elegant design and an unrivalled breadth of content. Underpinning the features is the magazine’s unerringly authoritative weekly mix of fashion, food, health and beauty.

TV & Radio 7 Day Guide (Saturday)
No other quality or midmarket newspaper offers a stand-alone TV guide on Saturdays, which means that the Telegraph offers advertisers a unique opportunity to connect with readers as they contemplate their week's viewing and listening. Research consistently shows Television & Radio to be one of the most read, most appreciated and longest kept sections of the Saturday paper. Its unique editorial proposition attracts the country's most-loved stars - to discuss their programmes in its pages.

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The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of The Daily Telegraph, also published by the Telegraph Media Group. The Sunday Telegraph was originally a separate operation with a different editorial staff, but since 2013 the Telegraph has been a seven-day operation.

Launched in February 1961, The Sunday Telegraph has built a reputation for being the best written, most entertaining and constantly surprising Sunday broadsheet. Through ten wide-ranging sections, including two magazines, it now enjoys a huge loyalty from a remarkably mixed audience of two million readers every week.

By maintaining its broadsheet format across all eight of its newspaper sections, The Sunday Telegraph also continues to offer greater advertising impact than any compact.

Business
The Sunday Telegraph’s Business section includes coverage of financial markets and corporate affairs. It has a long track record of breaking major business stories and securing exclusive interviews with key figures in international finance. Regular columnists include Roger Bootle, the renowned economist, and Luke Johnson, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur. The section also includes Equity View, the successful sharetipping column and ‘@chieve,’ our popular ecommerce business page sponsored by Barclays.

Sport
This is the section for the best reports, comment and news from the top personalities and writers in the world of sport.
Football - Coverage of every Premiership game including commentary, insights and views from Gary Lineker and Patrick Barclay.
Rugby - Authoritative and witty journalism from the voice of rugby, Paul Ackford.
Cricket - From Scyld Berry’s incisive reports to Michael Atherton’s ability to write about the game with unrivalled authority. Former England skipper Nasser Hussain gives his own insight through his Captain’s Diary.
Golf - Mark Reason’s reports and his Golf View column are widely accepted as the best golf writing in any Sunday newspaper.
Racing - One of horse racing’s most respected writers, Brough Scott, interviews the sport’s top personalities.

Review
Review is full of up-to-the-minute interviews, and entertaining and revealing features by a wide-range of writers, from Joanne Harris to John Simpson. It focuses on the newsworthy and also on strong personal stories outside the news agenda. Plus the best the week has to offer in our ‘Critics' Choice’ and our Shopping advertisement section.

Travel
The Sunday Telegraph Travel section combines incisive consumer advice with witty, observant reports that appeal to every type of traveller. Lively and visually inspiring, this supplement has a fiercely loyal readership who turn to travel expert Sophie Butler, intrepid adventurer Lindsay Hawdon and last-minute bargain hunter Deborah Reddihough.

Home & Living
This 12-page section opens with property. Features include, ‘Move or Improve’, ‘Where to get the Look’ and ‘Room Planners’ where interior design team, Paula and Phil Robinson, offer spacesaving solutions, architectural advice and style tips. Jeff Howell, our resident builder, tells it ‘On the Level’ and answers readers’ questions. Living covers gardening and shopping. Regular features include ‘3 of the best’ where gardening and home items are tried and tested and ‘My Space’ a look through the garden gate of the rich and famous. Landscape architect, Bunny Guinness, offers garden solutions and Alex Mitchell provides seasonal gardening inspiration.

Money
Our award-winning Money section contains the very best in personal finance news and consumer advice. The section has a reputation for campaigning on vital business financial issues as well as researching a full range of consumer issues. Each week the section contains comprehensive tables detailing the best-value financial products on the market, while Lorna Bourke, our renowned columnist, solves readers' money worries.

Business File
Business File’s news, features and senior appointments provide the introduction for Sunday’s Telegraph Appointments. With more commercial job advertisements on average than any other newspaper appointments section, it is a must-read for both the active job-seeker and the more elusive job-browser.

Stella
Who is the most powerful consumer today? She is the modern woman, affluent and aged anywhere from her mid-20s to her 50s. She is someone who is summed up more by her state of mind than her age. She is grown up but youthful, interested in fashion and fun, but not shallow or unthinking. Which is the newspaper supplement for her? Stella — Sunday Telegraph’s weekly magazine that thinks it’s a monthly glossy. The Stella reader — be she 35 or 53 — is the woman who shapes the world in which we live, who buys the clothes, the food, the furniture. Stella helps her decide what to buy and where to buy it. Classier and cleverer than its rivals, Stella is crammed with wearable, buyable fashion and beauty, as well as big-name interviews and must-read features. It also boasts the best writing on food, interiors, health, fitness, relationships and emotional issues. Stella may be aspirational, but it is approachable and practical, too. Women everywhere wonder how they ever managed without it.

Seven
The Sunday Telegraph’s lively 80-page guide to the best of everything – film, comedy, music, theatre, dance, television, technology, all-night poker sessions, books, cars, gigs and concerts. The TV and radio listings give readers a reason to keep it; the big-name writers ensure they enjoy it. Seven’s a week’s worth of great ideas in one place. It is immediately accessible to the casual reader, while offering engaging reads for the week ahead. With Seven on a Sunday, you no longer need to wonder vaguely what the coming week might offer: if there’s anything interesting out there, it’s in here. Seven’s aimed at the intelligent 30-something who is busy but likes to be up-to-the-minute on the latest releases — and the story behind them. This is a magazine that’s switched on to the newest sounds and to the gadgets that play them. How does it differ from the competition? There’s nothing in the market quite like Seven: it’s smarter, wider-ranging and not just another PR vehicle. Seven gives fine writing the setting it deserves.