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...Previous bidders. including a consortium led by hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, and Daily Mail-owner DMGT, have already indicated their interest in the Telegraph, according to one person close to the situation...
...Hedge fund boss Sir Paul Marshall is another contender for the Telegraph. Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský and Axel Springer have also registered interest....
...Paul Marshall, the Brexit-supporting hedge fund founder who has agreed funding from US financier Ken Griffin, also wants to grow the newspaper in the US, where his management team sees a gap in the market...
...Other bidders for the paper include hedge fund billionaire and GB News co-owner Paul Marshall, as well as two other newspaper owners, Rupert Murdoch’s News UK and Lord Rothermere’s DMGT....
...daniel.thomas@ft.com; harriet.agnew@ft.com Letter in response to this article:Quite the opposite is true / From Matteo Sartori, Milan, Italy...
...Marshall also owns an online media group, UnHerd....
...As Daniel Thomas and I explore in this profile, over the past four decades, the 64-year-old evangelical Christian and financier has positioned himself as a philanthropist and political donor and as an education...
...Marshall has his eyes on acquiring that newspaper title, adding it to his media stable and cementing his position as a potential leader maker for the party....
...There is an expression, sometimes attributed to composer Claude Debussy, that music lies in the spaces between the notes....
...DMGT, Marshall and News Corp declined to comment....
...The regulator currently has about a dozen open investigations into GB News, which is backed by hedge fund boss Paul Marshall....
...However, TalkTV has struggled with viewers and has slipped behind rivals including Paul Marshall’s GB News, which launched just months before in 2021....
...The broadcaster, co-owned by hedge fund boss Paul Marshall, has carved out a niche in hiring right-leaning politicians to host current affairs shows....
...They included hedge fund millionaire Sir Paul Marshall and DMGT, the group that owns the Daily Mail. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is also interested in buying the Spectator....
...The People’s Forum was one of the most watched programmes this year for the channel, which is co-owned by hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, with more than 5mn views online....
...will remain Marshall Wace....
...But TalkTV’s centre-right position has been usurped in part by GB News, the Paul Marshall-backed channel, which is regularly drawing in more viewers with its blend of controversial commentators and shows...
...Spokespeople for Griffin and Marshall declined to comment on Griffin’s involvement, which was first reported by The Telegraph. Marshall is working with Moelis investment bank on the bid....
...Paul Marshall, the hedge fund millionaire, already co-owns GB News, which provides a platform for the populist Reform UK party, a serious threat to the Tories....
...Ofcom found that the channel, which is part-owned by hedge fund boss Paul Marshall, twice breached rules that protect audiences from harm and failed to show due impartiality on three occasions....
...The decision will frustrate bidders such as hedge fund billionaire Paul Marshall and DMGT’s Lord Rothermere, who have spent months lining up their offers....
...Marshall is one of the bidders for the Daily Telegraph in an auction by Lloyds Banking Group, which seized control of the newspaper earlier this year from the Barclay family....
...The Fitzwilliam’s director, Luke Syson, sees it as an “unexpected masterpiece” reminiscent of Holbein’s portraits of Erasmus or Thomas More....
...GB News, which is co-owned by Brexit-backing hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall, will give the former prime minister a TV platform to air his views in the run-up to the UK general election expected next year...
...GB News is about 45 per cent owned by Marshall, who is among the bidders for the Telegraph newspaper and Spectator, which used to employ Johnson as a columnist....
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