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The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere
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 The Daily Telegraph & Courier. Considered a newspaper of
record over The Times in the UK when
the Conservatives are in power, The Telegraph generally has a
reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being
"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 363,183 in
December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation
audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, much faster than industry trends,
from 1.4 million in 1980. Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph,
which started in 1961, had a circulation of 281,025 as of December 2018. 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.