Who’d want to be a newspaper proprietor these days? A couple of decades ago print owners (or “barons” to give them their tabloid name) must have felt as though they were printing money alongside the evening news. Then along came the internet and the rest is history.
It certainly is history for Evgeny Lebedev’s Evening Standard, which printed its final edition on 19 September after 197 years (it will continue online and as a new weekly print title). Meanwhile, a bidding war continues for the Telegraph, involving Paul Marshall (who last week bought the Spectator), Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, David Montgomery’s National World and the former Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s rumoured band of billionaires.
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