‘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 some…


