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Alexandra Topping

UAE-backed bid for Telegraph raises fears of Gulf ‘newswashing’

A Daily Telegraph front page
The Telegraph group would be a ‘very small asset’ for the UAE, says the media analyst Alex DeGroote. Photograph: PA/Alamy

Shortly after midday on Monday, an email arrived in the inbox of staff at the Daily Telegraph from their editor. “Over the weekend a number of you have asked me questions about the future ownership of the Telegraph,” Chris Evans wrote. “You’ve been asking me how we can be confident that editorial independence would be protected. At the moment I know no more than you will have read.”

After a turbulent week at one the UK’s biggest and most influential newspapers, the staff of the broadsheet are not the only ones to be concerned.

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