My topic today is The Daily Telegraph - is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed thoughout the United Kingdom. The newspaper was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as the Daily Telegraph and Courier and is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay. The Barclay brothers purchased the Telegraph for around £ 665 million in late June 2004.
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 2 pennies and four pages long. Levy then appointed his son, to edit the newspaper and relaunched it as The Daily Telegraph, with slogan " the largest, best and cheapest newspaper in the world."
In January 2009, the Telegraph was the highest selling newspaper among British broadsheets.
On 10 October 2005, the Daily Telegraph relaunched to incorporate a tabloid sports section a new stand-alone business section.
On September 2008 The Daily Telegraph was printed with colour on each page for the first time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ - the online version of the newspaper it includes articles from the print editions of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, as well as web-online content such as breaking news, features, picture galleries and blogs. It was named UK consumer website of the Year in 2007 and 2009 by the Association of Online Publishers.
The site is overseen by Edward Roussel, digital editor of Telegraph Media Group, and Marcus Warren as editor.
