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New Observer website to be launched as Tortoise signs deal to buy newspaper

Tortoise plans to combine its newsroom with that of the 233-year-old newspaper.

Evening Standard

Guardian newspaper confirms sale of Sunday sister paper The Observer to Tortoise Media

The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper has confirmed that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee

The Independent UK

Observer appoints Lucy Rock as editor as Tortoise Media sale confirmed

Title’s first female editor in more than a century will work alongside a digital editor, as Observer builds online brand

The Guardian - UK

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Scott Trust and Guardian Media Group sign a deal with Tortoise Media to buy the Observer

The Scott Trust and Guardian Media Group (GMG) have signed a deal with Tortoise Media to buy the Observer.

The Guardian - UK

Journalists begin second strike over proposed deal to sell the Observer to Tortoise Media

Second two-day action follows news that the deal was agreed in principle last week by the Scott Trust

The Guardian - UK

Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer

Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

The Guardian - UK

As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media

Letters: Former Observer editor Paul Webster responds to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust

The Guardian - UK

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Key questions about the sale of the Observer that remain unanswered

Letters: Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust

The Guardian - UK

Deal agreed to sell the Observer to Tortoise media organisation

Newspaper’s owner, the Scott Trust, to sign contract in coming days, despite strike by Guardian and Observer journalists

The Guardian - UK

We want what’s best for the Observer – and the Guardian. That’s why the deal with Tortoise makes sense

The world’s oldest Sunday paper must have resources, a modern strategy and a new focus to thrive. This agreement guarantees all three, says Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

The Guardian - UK

Guardian urged to ‘press pause’ on Observer sale as more strikes planned

Staff are planning two days of action next week over the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media

The Independent UK

Sale of UK's Observer, world's oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values, is agreed

The sale of the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape, has been approved, despite two days of strike action from journalists this week

The Independent UK

Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle

Scott Trust will become a key shareholder and take a seat on both the editorial and commercial boards of the company

The Guardian - UK

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media

Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

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The Guardian - UK

Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

Union says sale of Sunday paper to Tortoise would be a ‘betrayal of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer’

Evening Standard

Are The Guardian and The Observer about to part ways?

With Labour in power, the paper should be driving the agenda – instead, it’s at war with itself

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Wonder of Stevie; Greatest Hits Radio 60s; Archive on 4; Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman – review

The Obamas, Janelle Monáe et al sing the praises of Stevie Wonder’s genius; Ken Bruce and Joanna Lumley are a dream 60s radio team. Plus, assorted horrors nuclear and otherwise

The Guardian - UK

Guardian parent company in talks over potential sale of Observer

Guardian Media Group announces it is in negotiations with Tortoise Media over world’s oldest Sunday newspaper

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The Guardian - UK

Neil Gaiman screen adaptations halted after allegations of sexual misconduct

Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives has been cancelled and productions by Amazon and Disney have been put on hold amid reports about the Coraline author

The Guardian - UK

Tories urged to return ‘further £5m donation made by Frank Hester’

Scottish Tory leader says all of Hester’s donations should be reviewed after racist and misogynistic comments

Evening Standard

'Who trolled Amber Heard?' New Tortoise podcast dives deep

The podcast found that over 50 per cent of #AmberHeardIsAnAbuser tweets were ‘inauthentic’, from bots or paid accounts

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack; Making Sense of Social Housing; Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes – review

Not enough users of the hacked infidelity website share their stories; more on the UK’s housing crisis; and a philology of funnies

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Rest Is Entertainment; History for You With Douglas and Hugh and more

Dream duo Richard Osman and Marina Hyde take aim at Farage et al; history boys get a satirical ribbing; the psychology of greed; and a hard look at the Labour party, from Corbyn to Starmer

The Independent UK

Tory party facing bid to bring High Court challenge over leadership election

Tortoise Media is pursuing legal action over a refusal to give information about Conservative members who elected Liz Truss.

The Independent UK

Charlotte Owen: Allies rally around Boris Johnson aide handed youngest life peer

A No 10 insider said her peerage ‘is one of the most strange and hardest to explain’

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