The Telegraph plans to hit 500K subscribers by 2020

In two years, the U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, has hit 400,000 paying subscribers and 5 million registered users after switching to a premium paywall and registered-access model. Fifty-four percent of the company’s revenue comes from readers. However, although the Telegraph is transitioning towards becoming more reader-friendly, revenue fell by 2.6 percent to £278 million last […]

Telegraph expanding Friday and Sunday papers

The Telegraph is changing its print edition schedule by expanding on its Friday and Sunday papers. This means that the Saturday print edition will be replaced following this expansion. According to the company, the move comes due to the changing needs of readers and the communities that The Telegraph serves. However, the company will still […]

Telegraph reaches subscriber milestone as profits plummet

Telegraph Media Group, the company behind The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph,  telegraph.co.uk and a number of other apps and email products announced that it has more than 400,000 paying subscribers to its digital and print journalism. The achievement comes after the company’s digital subscription growth increased dramatically during the first nine months of 2019. […]

Telegraph hires FT’s Zaffarano as social media editor

The Telegraph has appointed Francesco Zaffarano, a digital journalist at The Economist, to its social media team as social media editor. The hire will take effect at the end of July. Zaffrano’s role at The Economist has been to produce content for the newspaper’s Instagram account, which has 3.5 million followers. The Economist syndicates its […]