{"id":460845,"date":"2026-03-06T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460845\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:26:14","slug":"politico-owner-axel-springer-buys-telegraph-for-575m-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460845\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO owner Axel Springer buys Telegraph for \u00a3575M \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He added: \u201cWe want to help it become the most read and intellectually inspiring center-right media outlet in the English-speaking world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axel Springer wasn\u2019t the only media company interested in purchasing the Telegraph, as the Daily Mail &amp; General Trust had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czj17w3n1e8o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czj17w3n1e8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposed a \u00a3500 million takeover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00f6pfner added: \u201cThe Telegraph stands for freedom, personal responsibility, democratic values and a belief in open societies and market economies. These convictions closely align with our Axel Springer essential values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the U.K.\u2019s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which oversees media mergers in the U.K. on competition and foreign influence grounds, said Friday: \u201cWe note the announcement today on the sale of Telegraph Media Group. The Secretary of State will, as she has throughout, follow the established regulatory process and assess the new deal proposed. We will keep Parliament updated on this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>D\u00f6pfner statement said that the buyer and seller \u201cbelieve that the transaction is fully compliant with the UK\u2019s Foreign State Influence regime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: \u201cWe want to help it become the most read and intellectually inspiring center-right media outlet in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,145,57,58,3714,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-germany","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-media","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}