Will be interesting to see if Axel Springer change the Telegraph’s EU stance.
06.03.2026 12:24
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Will be interesting to see if Axel Springer change the Telegraph’s EU stance.
Axel has CONFIRMED our FT scoop
“Axel Springer was founded in 1946 under a British press licence. He built his company inspired by the tradition of Fleet Street. The Telegraph was his North Star,” said Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner in a statement confirming the £575m deal.
Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi
www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
All3Media and Banijay combine to create $8bn global TV powerhouse - only on ft.com. RedBird IMI and Banijay will be equal partners in the world’s largest independent TV maker, with Marco Bassetti, Jane Turton and Jeff Zucker all taking management positions
www.ft.com/content/5fca...
GB News, the right-leaning TV broadcaster, said that it remained dependent on financing from investors including hedge fund boss Sir Paul Marshall after posting another annual loss
www.ft.com/content/f119...
Paramount executives sipped champagne out of paper cups on the legendary studio lot in Hollywood to celebrate. Netflix execs consoled themselves with the $2.8bn break free.
Inside Project Warrior, or how Paramount beat Netflix in $110bn battle for Warner.
www.ft.com/content/e352...
Scoop: The BBC set to cut hundreds of millions of pounds - a tenth of its costs over the next three years - in a move likely to lead to fresh job cuts. Staff told in a conference call held by director-general Tim Davie this afternoon
www.ft.com/content/4503...
under rated and often majority view. "thats just fine I guess, haven't given it much thought"
One person close to the Will Lewis exit from the Washington Post told the FT: “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing". Lewis was spotted at a Super Bowl party on the same day as his newspaper was firing 300 staff.
Story here: www.ft.com/content/5fa6...
Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down
Obviously terrible but also now think the FT now needs a taco editor
FT fan mail
Severance s3 just landed
SCOOP w/ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social: Channel 4 is set to appoint Sky advertising supremo Priya Dogra as its next chief executive. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow for the public service broadcaster.
Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros on.ft.com/4aEEH1P
Netflix boss Ted Sarandos keeps a replica of Rosebud, the childhood sled at the heart of the Warner Bros’ film Citizen Kane, hanging in his home. Now he gets to own the whole studio.
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Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
Daily Mail owner DMGT has struck a £500mn deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain, confirming our scoop last week w/ @JFK_America
www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
Scoop: Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board in the latest blow to the corporation since the resignation of its director-general two weeks ago.
www.ft.com/content/6b90...
Scoop: Paramount is in advanced talks to acquire Champions League TV rights in the UK and other major European markets in major bet on sports rights outside the US and blow to incumbent broadcasters. Story coming soon on FT.com
Samuel Agini + @danielthomasldn.bsky.social: Wimbledon Debenture #Tickets Set To Secure Exemption From UK Resale Crackdown | @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/7e9d...
Rare chance to get Mogwai on the front page of the FT this morning in this scoop with @pickardje.bsky.social
Can I recommend the joy of listening to St Etienne talking in this podcast? I l listened over the weekend and what a lovely conversation between two old friends.
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Scoop with @PickardJE: the UK will outlaw rip off ticket touts by fixing prices at face value ..
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Scoop: Lord Rothermere’s DMGT, the owner of the Daily Mail, has already expressed interest in buying the Telegraph (having been a minority partner).
Lord Rothermere has long ambitions to bring together the two rightwing British newspapers.
RedBird has confirmed to the FT that it will "withdraw its bid", saying: "We remain fully confident that the Telegraph and its world-class team have a bright future ahead of them".
Which is fairly magnanimous of them considering the coverage of RedBird by the Telegraph.
