‘No one’s even heard of the Telegraph’: can the UK’s most conservative paper take on Murdoch in the US?

Axel Springer boss has ‘bold vision’ for the media group, but identifying a gap is no guarantee of stateside success As he addressed staff at the London headquarters of the Telegraph Media Group last week, Mathias Döpfner, the German chief executive of Axel Springer and latest proprietor of the most traditional of conservative British newspapers, referred to his company’s decades-long pursuit of the venerable titles. As staff nibbled Axel Springer-embossed biscuits, Döpfner also exchanged som...

By Michael Savage Media editor