As the shock news of a probable sale spread through the newsroom at the Telegraph, an air of optimism broke out among its journalists.
It was perhaps not the reaction you might have expected when the future of one of the UK’s biggest and most influential newspapers had been thrown into uncertainty for the first time in almost two decades. But many among the 1,000 staff employed by the papers have long felt that being owned by the billionaire Barclay family had hamstrung the growth potential of its titles, which in recent years have increasingly got their mojo back as the newspaper industry has come to grips with the challenge of digital media.
