The Telegraph Is Up for Sale Again: Here’s Who Might Buy It

The Telegraph, one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers, is back on the block after UAE-backed investment group RedBird IMI officially walked away from its proposed takeover following a political furor.

RedBird IMI said Tuesday that it would sell on the rights to the Telegraph as well as the Spectator magazine, reigniting a media battle for control of two publications that are famously intertwined with the upper echelons of the Conservative party.

The Spectator is the world’s oldest weekly magazine still in print while the Daily Telegraph dates back to 1855 and claims the scoop for the outbreak of ...