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Telegraph: Man sues friend over fake Facebook profile
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 1 2008, 11.00am
A businessman is suing an old schoolfriend allegeding the friend created a fake profile of him on the social networking site Facebook. Mathew Firsht, 38, is seeking damages from Grant Raphael at the High Court, claiming that the profile contained personal details and false information about his sexual orientation and political views. (more)

Telegraph boss Aidan Barclay slammed by Lords for refusing to give evidence
From Press Gazette. Posted June 27 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph chairman Aidan Barclay has been severely criticised by peers for refusing to give evidence in an inquiry into media ownership. (more)

Peter Mitchell has been promoted to sports editor at the Sunday Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted June 20 2008, 6.12am
The Sunday Telegraph has promoted Peter Mitchell to sports editor, part of a raft of changes that will include a new sports blog on Telegraph.co.uk. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph adds new ‘irreverent’ sports blog
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 19 2008, 2.25pm
Telegraph.co.uk is launching a new sports blog, which will cast an irreverent eye over the days sporting stories. The blog will be led by Andrew Baker, sports feature writer for the site and paper, and will feature alongside 14 other sports blogs on the site. (more)

Telegraph news recruits need to be commercially focused too, says new media director
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 19 2008, 2.05pm
The world is becoming more commercial, so Telegraph editorial recruits have to reflect this shift, Alison Reay, director of new media, told an Association of Online Publishers (AOP) forum yesterday. The integration of the Telegraph's newsroom, she added, created a multimedia hub for the paper's commercial interests as well as for editorial. "People recruited in the last [...] (more)

Telegraph news recruits need commercial focus too, says new media director
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 19 2008, 2.05pm
The world is becoming more commercial, so Telegraph editorial recruits have to reflect this shift, Alison Reay, director of new media, told an Association of Online Publishers (AOP) forum yesterday. The integration of the Telegraph's newsroom, she added, created a multimedia hub for the paper's commercial interests as well as for editorial. "People recruited in the last [...] (more)

Telegraph video goes viral with launch of widgets
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 18 2008, 11.00pm
Applications for newspaper's video channels aimed at attracting new viewers on blogs, social networks and mobile devices (more)

Mail replaces Telegraph as the UK's most popular newspaper website
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 18 2008, 11.00pm
Independent debuts figures, record traffic for the Sun, Guardian holds most domestic users (more)

Telegraph goes Polish for sports fans
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 12 2008, 2.24pm
Telegraph.co.uk has published a Polish version of a report on Poland's progress in Euro 2008 - thanks to Jon Buscall for the email. The article by Kat Mochlinski is available in both English and Polish with a link between the articles. With The Sun running a print edition in Polish for Euro 2008 and having already trialled [...] (more)

Daily Telegraph appoints dedicated Twenty20 cricket correspondent
From Media Guardian. Posted June 12 2008, 8.17am
The Daily Telegraph has expanded its cricket coverage by appointing a dedicated correspondent to cover Twenty20 matches. By Ben Dowell (more)

Telegraph's Toby Helm joins Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted June 11 2008, 3.23pm
The Daily Telegraph's public policy editor, Toby Helm, has been appointed as the Observer's new Whitehall editor. By Ben Dowell (more)

Telegraph titles integrate news desks
From Media Guardian. Posted June 9 2008, 6.05am
Telegraph Media Group has integrated the news desks of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, with the papers' reporters also writing for the website. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons (more)

Telegraph Media Group integrates news operations
From Press Gazette. Posted June 9 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group has announced the integration of its news operations on the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk. (more)

WAN 2008: Mobile will be 'natural extension' of Telegraph reporting and website
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 2 2008, 11.00pm
Telegraph.co.uk's plans for mobile will increase mobile training for staff and build a complementary platform to the website (more)

WAN 2008: Users will drive breaking news on mobile - Paul Cheesbrough, Telegraph
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 2 2008, 11.00pm
Breaking news from users and live streamed video accessed from multiple mobile devices are in store for the paper (more)

WEF 2008: Mobile will be a 'natural extension' of Telegraph reporting and website
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 2 2008, 11.00pm
Telegraph.co.uk's plans for mobile will increase mobile training for staff and build a complementary platform to the website (more)

WEF 2008: Users will drive breaking news on mobile - Paul Cheesbrough, Telegraph
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 2 2008, 11.00pm
UK broadsheet plans breaking news from users and live-streamed video accessed from multiple mobile devices (more)

Telegraph sports reporter's fighting feature
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 2 2008, 5.20am
Eight weeks of blood, sweat and tears lay ahead as sports hack enters the boxing ring (more)

Daily Telegraph drops TV reviews
From Media Guardian. Posted May 30 2008, 2.33pm
The Daily Telegraph has become the latest newspaper to drop daily television reviews, with James Walton bidding readers a 'sort of farewell'. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons (more)

PDA Blog: Telegraph’s Edward Roussel on BBC Trust review of bbc.co.uk
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 30 2008, 7.33am
"The trust's recommendation is simply to accept the overspend, integrate it into the budget and add an extra Â£4.4m of additional padding," says Roussel, digital editor of Telegraph Media Group, in his response to the BBC Trust's review of bbc.co.uk released yesterday. The Beeb's 'digital warchest', he adds, is a threat to the newspaper industry who should be investing in and building their digital prospects. "So while the BBC's words are all about 'protecting' the market, its actions are all about 'owning' the market." (more)

Guardian publishes string of anti-Telegraph stories - cue spat
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 28 2008, 5.03pm
While the Daily Mail allegedly has a gentlemen's agreement with the Telegraph not to write about each other's parent company, it hardly seems worth pointing out that no such pact exists between the Guardian and the Telegraph online. Over the last month a series of articles published by Guardian.co.uk has alleged various problems with or criticised [...] (more)

Media Guardian: Anti-immigrant BNP member blogging on Telegraph
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 28 2008, 10.50am
Richard Bambrook, the British National Party's London Assembly member, has used the paper's MyTelegraph platform to publish an anti-immigrant blog post. A spokeswoman for the Telegraph said the presence of the post on the site did not mean the paper endorsed Bambrook's arguments and that readers are relied upon to report offensive material. "Our readers are entitled to their opinions and, within the law, they're entitled to publish them on the My Telegraph blogging platform," she said. (more)

NMA: Telegraph looks to ecommerce as web revenue stream
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 23 2008, 11.20am
Telegraph.co.uk is set to introduce a raft of ecommerce propositions across its site this summer as it aims to bring in revenue channels beyond traditional advertising, according to NMA. The site's commercial team is in talks with potential partners for services that are likely to include an enhanced shopping platform, a price-comparison service and betting. (more)

Publishers query Telegraph rise
From Media Guardian. Posted May 23 2008, 6.34am
The standards for assessing web traffic for national newspaper websites are to be reviewed after rival publishers questioned Telegraph.co.uk's recent dramatic growth. By Jemima Kiss (more)

Telegraph Media Group looks east with Shanghai bureau
From Press Gazette. Posted May 23 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group has announced a major new operation in China with the opening of a bureau in Shanghai. (more)

"We see our main competitors as the BBC or CNN," Will Lewis, Telegraph editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 22 2008, 11.00pm
Online multimedia reporting brings a new range of competition (more)

ABCes to be reviewed after dramatic hike in Telegraph.co.uk traffic
From Media Guardian. Posted May 22 2008, 1.19pm
The web measurement standards for the UK's national newspaper websites are to be reviewed after Telegraph.co.uk's dramatic traffic growth was queried. By Jemima Kiss (more)

April ABCe: Telegraph website overtakes Guardian
From Media Guardian. Posted May 22 2008, 11.20am
ABCe: Telegraph.co.uk has overtaken guardian.co.uk to become the most popular UK national newspaper site., according to ABCe figures. By Jemima Kiss (more)

ABCe: Telegraph claims top web traffic spot from Guardian
From Press Gazette. Posted May 22 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph.co.uk ended Guardian.co.uk's long reign as the most widely-read national newspaper website in April, newly-released ABCe figures reveal. (more)

Telegraph passes Guardian as the UK's most visited newspaper website
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 21 2008, 11.00pm
Telegraph.co.uk again records growth in web traffic to record high (more)

Guardian review of MyTelegraph is ‘out of touch with internet age’
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 19 2008, 1.56pm
Speaking in a blog post of Friday, Shane Richmond, communities editor of Telegraph.co.uk, explained that staff from the Guardian had been putting questions to users of MyTelegraph in preparation for an article about the blogging site. To pre-empt the attack article, Richmond posted the answers to the questions asked of the site, which covered alleged links [...] (more)

Meet Kate - the Grimsby Telegraph's latest recruit... virtually speaking
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 16 2008, 12.30pm
Kate Carter is no ordinary reporter (more)

Telegraph man bags top obit-writers prize
From Press Gazette. Posted May 16 2008, 12.00am
A Telegraph obituary writer has been named joint winner of an international award. (more)

Boris Johnson to return to Daily Telegraph column - on £250,000 a year
From Media Guardian. Posted May 15 2008, 12.47pm
Boris Johnson will return to the Daily Telegraph - where he is expected to earn about £250,000 a year for his weekly column. By Stephen Brook (more)

London Mayor Boris Johnson gets 'six-figure sum' for Daily Telegraph column
From Press Gazette. Posted May 15 2008, 12.00am
Boris Johnson is to continue with his journalism as the new Mayor of London when he starts writing his Daily Telegraph column this summer, reportedly earning him £250,000 a year on top of his £137,000 salary. (more)

Nashua Telegraph experimenting with Qik
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 12 2008, 4.21pm
The Nashua Telegraph is experimenting with live video from mobile phones on its website using streaming service Qik. The Telegraph is using the tool to stream footage from N95 handsets to provide behind-the-scenes coverage of its online food show, The Doorbell Gourmet. Qik's popularity with publishers seems to be growing - last month the Sacramento Bee used [...] (more)

Arts chiefs rally round former Telegraph correspondent Nigel Reynolds
From Media Guardian. Posted May 8 2008, 6.34am
Several prominent arts directors are understood to have written to Daily Telegraph editor-in-chief Will Lewis following the departure of correspondent Nigel Reynolds. By Ben Dowell (more)

PPA Magazines 2008: Community stats for Telegraph.co.uk
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 7 2008, 3.17pm
According to Shane Richmond, communities editor of Telegraph.co.uk, articles on the site's Your View section receive an average of 166 comments a day, while 2,000 comments a day are recorded across the main site. MyTelegraph, which is one year old on Friday, now has 18,000 registered users and will be rebuilt this summer with new tools [...] (more)

Telegraph titles appoint religion editor
From Media Guardian. Posted May 7 2008, 1.52pm
The curate of St Bride's church in Fleet Street, George Pitcher, has been appointed religion editor for the Telegraph titles. By John Plunkett (more)

Fleet Street vicar to head up Telegraph religion team
From Press Gazette. Posted May 7 2008, 12.00am
Curate at the journalists’ church on Fleet Street – St Brides – George Pitcher has been appointed as the new religion editor for the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. (more)

User-generated content to be integrated across Telegraph.co.uk
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 6 2008, 11.00pm
The relaunched Telegraph blogging platform MyTelegraph will see content from the site integrated with the main site to attract new users (more)

All change at the Telegraph: integration continues
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 2 2008, 1.23pm
The Telegraph has moved further towards its vision of a fully integrated newsroom with a raft of promotions, new arrivals and a newly integrated Science team. Integrated desks contribute to both titles and the web site, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, and so far business, sport, foreign and comment desks have been reshaped to [...] (more)

Telegraph staff to work on online products in new lab
From Press Gazette. Posted May 2 2008, 12.00am
Journalists at Telegraph Media Group are to work with technical and commercial staff on short-term projects in a new innovation unit set to open at the newspaper this weekend. (more)

Telegraph staff to work on web products in new lab
From Press Gazette. Posted May 2 2008, 12.00am
Journalists at Telegraph Media Group are to work with technical and commercial staff on short-term projects in a new innovation unit set to open at the newspaper this weekend. (more)

Telegraph titles to integrate science desks
From Media Guardian. Posted May 1 2008, 11.46am
Telegraph Media Group is integrating the science reporters on its daily and Sunday newspapers into a single team. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph Media Group announces more cross-platform jobs
From Press Gazette. Posted May 1 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group has continued its integration of editorial teams across the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and telegraph.co.uk with more appointments across the three platforms announced today. (more)

Daily Mail hires Daily Telegraph's Jan Moir
From Media Guardian. Posted April 30 2008, 6.25am
Daily Telegraph star interviewer Jan Moir is set to jump ship to the Daily Mail. By Ben Dowell and Stephen Brook (more)

Media Guardian: Telegraph web traffic boosted by changes to online reporting
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 29 2008, 5.36am
Strong news stories and improved online production operations were behind the traffic surge to Telegraph.co.uk last month. The site recorded a 38.69 per cent month-on-month increase in unique users, according to the ABCE figures released last week. In addition, the site may have been under reporting previous traffic figures, as the result of some pages not being tracked by the measurement tools. (more)

Press Gazette: Telegraph developer weekend: The possibilites of Google Earth
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 28 2008, 9.03am
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Telegraph columnist Rachel Sylvester joins Times
From Media Guardian. Posted April 25 2008, 10.24am
The Times has hired Daily Telegraph columnist Rachel Sylvester as a political columnist. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph blasted by NUJ over 'illegal' redundancies
From Press Gazette. Posted April 24 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group has breached employment law in axing the jobs of four senior journalists in the past month, according to the National Union of Journalists. (more)

Massive web gains for Telegraph, Mirror Group debuts with 4.4m uniques
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 23 2008, 11.00pm
Telegraph gets record traffic in March, an increase in unique users of 137 per cent year-on-year (more)

Jelly Bean Day Underlines Greenock Telegraph's Commitment to Fun
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted April 22 2008, 7.50am
Today is apparently National Jelly Bean Day and the newly-appointed editor of the Greenock Telegraph has chosen to celebrate it, as part of an overall campaign to inject more fun into the paper. Wendy Metcalfe - who was previously at the Evening Express, in Aberdeen, as assistant editor, and,... (more)

Telegraph appoints cross-platform head of foreign operations
From Press Gazette. Posted April 22 2008, 12.00am
The Telegraph Media Group has appointed a news executive to oversee foreign news content across the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk. (more)

Daily Telegraph arts correspondent Nigel Reynolds made redundant
From Media Guardian. Posted April 21 2008, 4.31pm
Long serving Daily Telegraph arts correspondent Nigel Reynolds is the latest journalist to leave the paper. By Stephen Brook (more)

Nashua Telegraph video of Clinton aide arrest is in public interest, says online editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 18 2008, 12.08pm
The Nashua Telegraph's decision to publish a 15-minute video of Sidney Blumenthal, aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, while he was in police custody has been criticised by media commentator Roy Greenslade. Writing on his blog, the former editor of The Daily Mirror said the video was 'embarrassing, humiliating and overly intrusive'. "To show the footage of [...] (more)

Ex Telegraph editor launches Abu Dhabi daily
From The Times. Posted April 16 2008, 6.22pm
Martin Newland, the former editor of <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, is set to launch on Thursday a new Abu Dhabi newspaper, which has the backing of the Arab emirate's $850 billion dollar sovereign wealth fund.$ (more)

Telegraph appoints new head of community and rebuilds blogs
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 10 2008, 11.00pm
Iain Martin named new head of comment and community, while newspaper announces blogs and My Telegraph platforms will be rebuilt (more)

Axed Daily Telegraph jobs amalgamated
From Media Guardian. Posted April 9 2008, 4.12pm
One day after axing its religious and social affairs correspondents, the Daily Telegraph has amalgamated the jobs. By Stephen Brook (more)

Three specialist correspondents leave in Daily Telegraph shakeup
From Media Guardian. Posted April 8 2008, 2.53pm
The Daily Telegraph has parted company with three specialist correspondents in the latest round of changes at the title. By Stephen Brook (more)

David Bond named Telegraph sports editor by new boy Mark Skipworth
From Media Guardian. Posted April 8 2008, 12.25pm
Mark Skipworth arrived at the Telegraph Media Group today as executive editor sport - and immediately promoted David Bond to the post of Daily Telegraph sports editor. By Stephen Brook (more)

Former Sunday Telegraph editor Peregrine Worsthorne takes the Spectator to the Press Complaints Commission
From Media Guardian. Posted April 7 2008, 3.20pm
Former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne has complained to the PCC after the Spectator removed a critical reference to the magazine's owners from a book review. By Stephen Brook (more)

Hull Daily Mail deputy Mel Cook named as new Scunthorpe Telegraph Editor
From Press Gazette. Posted April 3 2008, 12.00am
Mel Cook, deputy editor of Northcliffe's Hull Daily Mail, has been appointed editor of the Scunthorpe Telegraph. (more)

Trinity Mirror ramps up hyperlocal drive with Coventry Telegraph launch
From Media Guardian. Posted March 31 2008, 11.29am
Trinity Mirror is rolling out the latest stage in its 'hyperlocal' digital news strategy, relaunching its Coventry Telegraph site and appointing a new digital head of its regional web network. By Jemima Kiss (more)

Coventry Telegraph launches new website featuring image archive
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 30 2008, 11.00pm
Telegraph is latest Trinity regional title to launch standalone website in move away from the ic umbrella portal for local news titles (more)

Daily Telegraph spikes Deedes review
From Media Guardian. Posted March 20 2008, 11.06am
The Daily Telegraph has spiked a review of the biography of its most famous journalist, the late Bill Deedes. By Stephen Brook (more)

Preston to step up at Saturday Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted March 13 2008, 5.07pm
Daily Telegraph assistant editor Richard Preston has been appointed to oversee the Saturday edition of The Daily Telegraph while Michele Lavery is on maternity leave. By Ben Dowell (more)

Sunday Telegraph diary editor given daily job as well
From Press Gazette. Posted March 7 2008, 12.00am
Editor of the Sunday Telegraph’s Mandrake diary Tim Walker is also to become the editor of The Telegraph’s diary. (more)

Sunday Telegraph's Mandrake goes daily
From Media Guardian. Posted March 6 2008, 3.21pm
The Sunday Telegraph's Mandrake column is to replace the Daily Telegraph's Spy column and become a seven-day operation. By Tara Conlan (more)

Telegraph.co.uk breaking news strategy - key staff as 'story owners' and having 'the first and final word'
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 6 2008, 12.00am
Edward Roussel, Telegraph's digital editor, tells DNA 2008 conference the integrated newsroom functions by compensating department heads for online editorial excellence (more)

Telegraph.co.uk breaking news strategy - key staff as 'story owners'
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 6 2008, 12.00am
Edward Roussel, Telegraph's digital editor, tells DNA 2008 conference the integrated newsroom functions by compensating department heads for online editorial excellence (more)

Telegraph hires FT's Corrigan
From Media Guardian. Posted February 19 2008, 12.10pm
The Daily Telegraph has hired Tracy Corrigan, editor of the Financial Times's Lex column. By Stephen Brook (more)

FT's Tracy Corrigan appointed assistant editor at the Daily Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted February 19 2008, 12.00am
Editor of the Financial Times’ (FT) Lex column Tracy Corrigan is joining the Daily Telegraph as assistant editor. (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor quits
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. By Stephen Brook (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor departs
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph crime reporter departs
From Media Guardian. Posted February 7 2008, 11.25am
John Steele, the Daily Telegraph's veteran crime correspondent, has left the paper. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph veteran Steele leaves crime beat after 11 years
From Press Gazette. Posted February 7 2008, 12.00am
Veteran Daily Telegraph reporter John Steele has left the paper after 11 years as crime correspondent. (more)

Telegraph Venture Navigator Part Three: Do enough people want apples and pears?
From Daily Telegraph. Posted February 4 2008, 3.00pm
The Daily Telegraph has launched a new online tool that is designed to improve the chances of succeeding in business by helping you work out whether you have a business idea that is worth pursuing. (more)

Telegraph to offer in-house production service for online advertisers
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted February 4 2008, 12.00am
New service will produce video and audio for online advertisers (more)

Telegraph names former AOL man as marketing director
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 29 2008, 12.00am
Barry Flanigan will take up his new cross-platform role for Telegraph Media Group in March (more)

How one newspaper went from Tunbridge Wells to Telegraph TV
From The Independent. Posted January 27 2008, 12.00am
It is 5 o'clock at the offices of the Telegraph. With Thursday evening deadlines approaching and journalists firing off copy to the subs, assistant editor Andrew Pierce strolls coolly across the newsroom into a glass booth to face a wall of cameras. On cue, he delivers a 30-second commentary on the significance of Peter Hain's resignation from the Cabinet over undeclared donations, to the backdrop of the Telegraph's new hi-tech offices in Victoria. Minutes later it's all done. Pierce returns to his desk and his piece is wrapped up in a neighbouring VT suite and sent over to Telegraph TV's content partner, ITN, to be incorporated into a short clip. Within the hour it appears on the paper's website. (more)

Lords told of Mail-Telegraph pact
From Media Guardian. Posted January 24 2008, 10.14am
The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have a pact not to write about each other's parent companies, a House of Lords committee has heard. By Stephen Brook (more)

Lancashire Telegraph calls for major reforms for young drivers
From Press Gazette. Posted January 17 2008, 12.00am
MPs, business leaders and emergency workers attended a major conference organised by the Lancashire Telegraph as part of its bid to cut accidents involving young drivers. (more)

Telegraph TV grows after strong downloads
From Digital Spy. Posted January 16 2008, 9.33am
The Daily Telegraph expands its Telegraph TV web service after judging it a success. (more)

Sunday Times' Skipworth poached for Telegraph sport role
From Press Gazette. Posted January 15 2008, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has poached Sunday Times managing editor (news) Mark Skipworth to be executive editor (sport). (more)

Widdecombe to star on Telegraph TV
From Media Guardian. Posted January 14 2008, 6.47am
The Telegraph website is set to launch seven new TV programmes, including a weekly talkshow featuring Ann Widdecombe. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph.co.uk launches seven new web TV programmes
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 14 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph TV bolsters schedule with new politics, culture and travel shows (more)

Telegraph drops pdf version
From Media Guardian. Posted January 9 2008, 7.19am
The Daily Telegraph has quietly dumped Telegraph PM, the daily printable pdf version of the paper. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph editor Will Lewis: 'Barclays don't interfere'
From Press Gazette. Posted January 9 2008, 12.00am
Telegraph editor-in-chief Will Lewis told the House of Lords that the Barclay Brothers never interfered in the editorial direction of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph – unlike Conrad Black, the previous owner. (more)

Telegraph's £10m for printers' pensions
From Media Guardian. Posted December 21 2007, 4.44pm
The Telegraph Media Group has challenged Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers to match a £10m payment to help plug the pension deficit at their joint printing venture West Ferry. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Record-breaking website traffic for Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted December 21 2007, 12.00am
ABCE figures for November show increase in unique users for The Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail websites, but slight decrease in unique users for Guardian (more)

National press web figures: Telegraph moves to third, Guardian slips but stays top
From Press Gazette. Posted December 20 2007, 12.00am
The Telegraph has leapfrogged The Times to take third place in the increasingly close-fought national press web battle. (more)

Observer columnist Mary Riddell joins Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted December 18 2007, 12.00am
The Observer’s Mary Riddell has joined the Daily Telegraph as an assistant editor and weekly columnist. (more)

Kidman wins damages from 'Telegraph'
From The Independent. Posted December 15 2007, 1.40am
Nicole Kidman has won an apology and "substantial" libel damages from The Daily Telegraph over an article alleging that the actress preferred a rival brand of perfume to that for which she is the advertising "face", Chanel No5. (more)

Kidman wins damages from Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted December 14 2007, 11.39pm
The actress Nicole Kidman is to receive 'substantial' damages from the Daily Telegraph after the newspaper claimed that she preferred another perfume to Chanel No 5, the fragrance she is paid to promote (more)

Telegraph foreign editor leaves staff
From Media Guardian. Posted December 14 2007, 4.46pm
The Daily Telegraph executive foreign editor, Con Coughlin, has left the paper's staff after eight of his correspondents left in a wave of sackings and resignations. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph pays out to Kidman
From Media Guardian. Posted December 14 2007, 2.48pm
The Daily Telegraph today agreed to pay 'substantial' damages to Nicole Kidman over claims she preferred another perfume to Chanel no 5, the fragrance she is paid to promote. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Nicole Kidman wins libel damages from Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted December 14 2007, 12.00am
Actress Nicole Kidman, the face of Chanel No 5, today accepted substantial libel damages over a claim that she snubbed the perfume by promoting a competitor. (more)

'The plan is to expand My Telegraph and roll out more community features in all our channels'
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted December 12 2007, 12.00am
Ceri Radford, deputy communities editor at Telegraph Media Group, talks to Journalism.co.uk about moderating user-interaction (more)

Sunday Telegraph appoints Charlotte Williamson from Harpers' Bazaar.
From Press Gazette. Posted December 12 2007, 12.00am
The Sunday Telegraph has appointed Harpers' Bazaar features editor Charlotte Williamson as deputy editor of News, Review and Comment. (more)

Sunday Telegraph launches glossy men's magazine
From Press Gazette. Posted December 11 2007, 12.00am
The Telegraph Media Group is to launch a twice-yearly glossy magazine for affluent, fashion-conscious men. (more)

Kidman takes action against Telegraph over perfume claim
From Media Guardian. Posted November 30 2007, 5.05pm
Nicole Kidman is taking legal action against the Daily Telegraph over a gossip column item alleging that her favourite perfume was not the one she was paid to promote. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Sunday Telegraph boss 'tried to block story about Blunkett'
From The Independent. Posted November 22 2007, 1.15am
The chairman of the Telegraph Media Group tried to prevent The Sunday Telegraph from running the scoop that contributed to David Blunkett's fall from office, its former editor has revealed. (more)

Accessibility 2.0: How user-friendly is the Telegraph to the blind and visually impaired?
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted November 21 2007, 12.00am
In the fifth of eight reviews of national newspaper websites, Journalism.co.uk asked blind and visually impaired volunteers to assess the accessibility of Telegraph.co.uk (more)

Charles Moore joins outcry against Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted November 16 2007, 5.59pm
Former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore has spoken out about the paper's new management. By Stephen Brook and Hugh Muir (more)

Telegraph announces multimedia integration of business department
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted November 16 2007, 12.00am
Editorial operations across the Telegraph's online and print business sections will be merged (more)

Telegraph integrates daily, Sunday and web business departments
From Press Gazette. Posted November 16 2007, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group’s two national newspapers are merging their business sections into one multi-media business department. (more)

Telegraph integrates print and web business departments
From Press Gazette. Posted November 16 2007, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group’s two national newspapers are merging their business sections into one multi-media business department. (more)

Sunday Telegraph names City top pair
From Media Guardian. Posted November 14 2007, 12.06pm
The Sunday Telegraph has appointed Mark Kleinman and Louise Armitstead to head up its City team. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Sunday Telegraph names top City duo
From Media Guardian. Posted November 14 2007, 12.06pm
The Sunday Telegraph has appointed Mark Kleinman and Louise Armitstead to head up its City team. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Express Newspapers and Telegraph Media Group in West Ferry row
From Media Guardian. Posted November 14 2007, 12.05pm
Express Newspapers and the Telegraph Media Group have traded public blows over the fate of the pension scheme at their joint printing venture West Ferry. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Northern Rock fails to gag Telegraph
From Daily Telegraph. Posted November 14 2007, 12.01am
Northern Rock has failed in its attempt to win an injunction against The Daily Telegraph after this newspaper revealed details of the sales document sent out to prospective bidders. (more)

Sunday Telegraph makes City desk appointments
From Press Gazette. Posted November 14 2007, 12.00am
The Sunday Telegraph today announced two senior appointments on its City desk. (more)

The Sunday Telegraph boosts City team
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted November 14 2007, 12.00am
Mark Kleinman and Louise Armitstead become Sunday Telegraph's City editors (more)

Lancs Telegraph rapped for identifying source
From Press Gazette. Posted November 13 2007, 12.00am
The Lancashire Telegraph has been criticised by the Press Complaints Commission for failing to protect a confidential source. (more)

Telegraph slips up by implicating mortuary worker as source of story
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 13 2007, 12.00am
Worker was fired after being identified by his boss, PCC is told (more)

Lancashire Telegraph rapped for identifying source
From Press Gazette. Posted November 13 2007, 12.00am
The Lancashire Telegraph has been criticised by the Press Complaints Commission for failing to protect a confidential source. (more)

Telegraph reporters ordered to leave Pakistan
From Press Gazette. Posted November 12 2007, 12.00am
Three Daily Telegraph journalists have become the first foreign reporters to be expelled from Pakistan since president General Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule a week ago. (more)

Lancashire Telegraph reporters help bring man to justice
From Press Gazette. Posted November 7 2007, 12.00am
Two Lancashire Telegraph journalists have helped convict a man of manslaughter nearly eight years after he killed his wife and dumped her body in a lake in France. (more)

Telegraph takes a hit from redundancies
From The Guardian. Posted November 5 2007, 12.00am
Profits at Telegraph Media Group fell back last year despite a rise in sales, while the newspaper publisher's latest accounts also show it shouldered �20m in costs for a slew of job cuts. By Katie Allen. (more)

Thames Valley reporter Stewart Payne finally leaves Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted November 2 2007, 11.35am
Reporter Stewart Payne has finally left the Daily Telegraph after a long-running dispute with the newspaper. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Martin Newland hires more Telegraph staff
From Media Guardian. Posted November 2 2007, 11.27am
Martin Newland has recruited two more Telegraph employees to join the newspaper he is setting up in Abu Dhabi. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Telegraph staff quit as regional offices are axed
From Press Gazette. Posted November 1 2007, 12.00am
Two Daily Telegraph staffers fighting the closure of their regional offices have lost their long-running grievance complaints. (more)

The Sunday Telegraph announces promotions
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 26 2007, 12.00am
Anna Murphy and Chris Deerin are awarded promotions (more)

FT hires Sunday Telegraph deputy business editor
From Media Guardian. Posted October 25 2007, 3.23pm
The Financial Times has hired the Sunday Telegraph's deputy business editor as one of a raft of senior appointments. By Stephen Brook. (more)

David Cameron in support of Coventry Telegraph's Switch It Off campaign
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 25 2007, 12.00am
Wide local support is reflected by Conservative leader (more)

Minister admits Telegraph campaign changed Government plans
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 22 2007, 12.00am
Minister concedes newspaper's campaign influenced the decision (more)

Strike action looms at Coventry Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted October 22 2007, 12.00am
Journalists at the Coventry Telegraph and Hinckley Times have voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of strike action over staff shortages. (more)

George Jones, the ex-political editor of the Daily Telegraph, is to join PA
From Media Guardian. Posted October 19 2007, 1.00am
George Jones, the ex-political editor of the Daily Telegraph, is to join the Press Association as a special correspondent. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Guardian and Telegraph staff in disputes over pay
From Press Gazette. Posted October 15 2007, 12.00am
Two national newspaper operations were locked in industrial disputes this week. (more)

Telegraph milestone marked with VIP reception
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 12 2007, 12.00am
Editor is joined by staff and guests to mark 70th anniversary (more)

Daily Telegraph hires Daily Mirror's Rosa Prince
From Media Guardian. Posted October 10 2007, 1.00am
The Daily Telegraph is further diversifying its political reporting team by hiring Rosa Prince from the Daily Mirror. By Stephen Brook. (more)

MY Telegraph wins international new media award
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 9 2007, 12.00am
Telegraph's personalisation feature named among Ifra's XMA Cross Media award winners for its community focus (more)

Mirror's Rosa Prince poached by Daily Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted October 9 2007, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has poached Rosa Prince from the Daily Mirror to become its political correspondent. (more)

Daily Telegraph regional reporter David Sapsted resigns
From Media Guardian. Posted October 4 2007, 1.00am
12.45pm: Daily Telegraph regional reporter David Sapsted has resigned from the paper he has worked at for 17 years. By Ben Dowell. (more)

BBC digital chief Paul Cheesbrough joins Telegraph Media Group
From Media Guardian. Posted October 4 2007, 1.00am
4.30pm: The BBC is losing its 'crucial' controller of digital media, Paul Cheesbrough, to the Telegraph. By Jemima Kiss. (more)

AOP: Telegraph wins top AOP award
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 4 2007, 12.00am
Media group wins overall online publisher of the year title, but no prizes for My Telegraph (more)

Another ex-Telegraph journalist joins Newland's Emirates paper
From Media Guardian. Posted October 2 2007, 1.00am
8am: Martin Newland has hired another former senior Telegraph journalist to join the newspaper he is setting up in the UAE. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Shaun Gregory quits Telegraph to head Blyk
From Media Guardian. Posted October 2 2007, 1.00am
12.15pm: The Daily Telegraph's Shaun Gregory is leaving the group to join pan-European free mobile operator, Blyk. By John Plunkett. (more)

ABCe: Sun and Telegraph buck August web traffic trend
From Press Gazette. Posted September 27 2007, 12.00am
The Sun and Telegraph were the only national newspaper websites to post month-on-month unique user increases in August, according to ABCe figures released today. (more)

Ex-Telegraph staff sought for Martin Newland’s Arab paper
From Press Gazette. Posted September 24 2007, 12.00am
Former Daily Telegraph editor Martin Newland is targeting former colleagues for his new Abu Dhabi newspaper launch – who like him have left the Barclay brothers regime. (more)

Ex-Telegraph man heads to UAE to join Martin Newland
From Media Guardian. Posted September 18 2007, 1.00am
Former Daily Telegraph editor Martin Newland has lured another Telegraph �migr� to the newspaper he is setting up in the UAE. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Promotions for Daily and Sunday Telegraph City editors
From Press Gazette. Posted September 18 2007, 12.00am
The Daily and Sunday Telegraph's City editors have both been promoted. (more)

Telegraph editor says broadcasters are 'too leftwing'
From Media Guardian. Posted September 14 2007, 1.00am
Daily Telegraph editor Will Lewis has attacked the 'leftwing bias' of broadcasters and said his newspaper intended to challenge them online. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Scunthorpe Telegraph celebrates 70th anniversary
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 14 2007, 12.00am
Exhibition and open day mark milestone as staff look back on the story so far (more)

Telegraph unveils luxury Sunday magazine
From Brand Republic. Posted September 13 2007, 4.00pm
LONDON - Telegraph Media Group has launched a new biannual luxury fashion magazine called ST Fashion, which will be sold with the Sunday Telegraph. (more)

Telegraph Group launches new fashion glossy
From Press Gazette. Posted September 12 2007, 12.00am
Telegraph Media Group has launched a bi-annual perfect-bound glossy fashion magazine called ST Fashion which is to go out with the Sunday Telegraph. (more)

Changes to Telegraph news team
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted September 11 2007, 12.00am
Internal promotions for three of the Daily Telegraph's news editors (more)

Reshuffle on Telegraph news desk in wake of Patience exit
From Press Gazette. Posted September 10 2007, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has reshuffled its newsdesk team following the promotion last week of Tony Gallagher from executive head of news to deputy editor. (more)

The real reason the 'Telegraph' lost Patience
From The Independent. Posted September 9 2007, 1.35am
About a year ago, Patience Wheat- croft, newly installed as editor of The Sunday Telegraph, received a bottle of champagne. A rumour went round that it was from the management floor as a thank-you present for overseeing a number of redundancies at the paper. She sent it back upstairs unopened, and became an instant hero in the broadsheet's newsroom. (more)

Hotline: New editor at The Sunday Telegraph
From Brand Republic. Posted September 7 2007, 12.00am
Ian McGregor has replaced Patience Wheatcroft as the editor of The Sunday Telegraph. Previously the deputy editor, McGregor was promoted when Wheatcroft resigned this week after 18 months in the role. (more)

Lewis: Telegraph should be a paper 'for all of Britain'
From Press Gazette. Posted September 7 2007, 12.00am
Although the Daily Telegraph is traditionally seen as the “in-house paper of the Conservative Party”, editor Will Lewis has signalled his intention to make it a paper “for all of Britain”. (more)

Telegraph's Randall in Sky TV move
From Press Gazette. Posted September 6 2007, 12.00am
Sky News has signed Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and former BBC business editor Jeff Randall to front a weekly live business show. (more)

New pet columnist for Daily Telegraph
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted September 6 2007, 12.00am
Pete Wedderburn to take up new position (more)

Sunday Telegraph editor quits
From Financial Times. Posted September 5 2007, 3.00am
Patience Wheatcroft, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, resigned suddenly last night, less than 18 months after she was hired from The Times. No reason was given for... (more)

'Sunday Telegraph' editor quits after 18 months
From The Independent. Posted September 5 2007, 1.50am
Patience Wheatcroft has quit as editor of The Sunday Telegraph after just 18 months in the job. She has been replaced by Ian MacGregor, the deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph and a favourite of the Telegraph Media Group chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan. (more)

Dominic Lawson slams Telegraph Media Group bosses
From Media Guardian. Posted September 5 2007, 1.00am
1pm: Dominic Lawson has compared the current management of the Telegraph Group to a 'chimpanzee' after the appointment of yet another new editor. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Patience Wheatcroft resigns as editor of The Sunday Telegraph
From Brand Republic. Posted September 4 2007, 7.30pm
LONDON - Patience Wheatcroft has resigned as editor of The Sunday Telegraph and been replaced by the deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, Ian MacGregor. (more)

Patience Wheatcroft quits Sunday Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted September 4 2007, 1.00am
7.20pm update: Patience Wheatcroft has resigned as editor of the Sunday Telegraph after 18 months in the job. By Jemima Kiss. (more)

Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft resigns - Ian MacGregor gets the job
From Press Gazette. Posted September 4 2007, 12.00am
Patience Wheatcroft has resigned as editor of the Sunday Telegraph following what are understood to have been "strategic differences" over the Telegraph Media Group's online plans. Deputy Ian MacGregor has been appointed editor (more)

Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft resigns
From Press Gazette. Posted September 4 2007, 12.00am
Patience Wheatcroft has resigned as editor of the Sunday Telegraph following "strategic differences" over the Telegraph Media Group's online plans. (more)

Telegraph and ITN extend video content deal
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 24 2007, 2.46pm
New show covering fantasy football has already launched and a rolling news programme to start soon (more)

Telegraph and ITN extend online video deal
From Press Gazette. Posted August 24 2007, 12.00am
ITN has extended its agreement with the Telegraph Media Group to supply video for Telegraph.co.uk. (more)

Telegraph creates digital reporting team with a raft of new appointments
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 22 2007, 12.59pm
Further changes are also made to the paper's political reporting staff (more)

Two depart in Daily Telegraph reshuffle
From Media Guardian. Posted August 21 2007, 1.00am
5.30pm: The Daily Telegraph's education editor and royal correspondent have left the paper as part of a raft of personnel changes. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Telegraph shake-up as Davies and Lightfoot exit
From Press Gazette. Posted August 21 2007, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has made a wide-ranging shake-up of its editorial team which includes the creation of a new digital reporting team. (more)

Telegraph to investigate election blog that sparked Police probe
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 30 2007, 9.36am
Little and Large political blog claimed to reveal results of postal vote prior to by-election (more)

US training programme based on Telegraph integration model
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 27 2007, 9.59am
IFRA to export European knowledge of newsroom integration to the US (more)

Times gains, Guardian and Telegraph drop in ABCe monthlies
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 26 2007, 2.17pm
Of the four national papers reporting monthly users figures Timesonline.co.uk is the only site reporting significant gains (more)

ABCe: Guardian and Telegraph suffer web traffic dips
From Press Gazette. Posted July 26 2007, 12.00am
Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph.co.uk both recorded dips in traffic in June, while Times Online continued to claw back readers, according to ABCe figures released today. (more)

Spin is here to stay, says outgoing Telegraph political editor
From Press Gazette. Posted July 25 2007, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph's outgoing political editor George Jones has said media relations with the Government are unlikely to improve with Gordon Brown as Prime Minister. (more)

MPs line up to support Telegraph's Wasted Lives campaign
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 24 2007, 12.00am
Early Day Motion backs calls for driving restrictions for under 25s to try and cut road deaths (more)

Telegraph.co.uk's dating pages 'lack of insight' says former editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 19 2007, 3.15pm
Richard Burton attacks site's use of personal ads pictures alongside news stories (more)

Telegraph.co.uk's dating pages 'lack insight', says former editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 19 2007, 3.15pm
Richard Burton attacks site's use of personal ad pictures alongside news stories (more)

Former Telegraph owner Black guilty of fraud
From Press Gazette. Posted July 13 2007, 12.00am
Former Daily Telegraph owner Conrad Black has been found guilty of fraud. (more)

Telegraph.co.uk launching breaking news blog
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 9 2007, 11.20am
'Making News' aims to tackle 'shortcomings' of niche commentary journals (more)

Telegraph.co.uk launches breaking news blog
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 9 2007, 11.20am
'Making News' aims to tackle 'shortcomings' of niche commentary journals (more)

Belfast Telegraph adds fourth daily online video bulletin
From Press Gazette. Posted July 6 2007, 12.00am
The Belfast Telegraph has added a new early morning edition to its online video news bulletin service. The new breakfast bulletin brings the number of daily updates to the paper’s online video news bulletin service to four. (more)

The Daily Telegraph appoints political editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 4 2007, 11.00am
Current political editor, George Jones, stands down (more)

Telegraph hires reporter Winnett from Sunday Times
From Media Guardian. Posted July 4 2007, 1.00am
11.15am: The Daily Telegraph has hired investigative reporter Robert Winnett from the Sunday Times. By Stephen Brook. (more

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