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The sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media has been signed, kickstarting plans to shake up the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper with a brand new web site and every day digital content material.
The deal will see Tortoise tackle all members of employees who want to keep working for the Observer, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
Tortoise plans to mix its newsroom with that of the 233-year-old newspaper, to create a every day digital Observer that features a new web site, podcasts, video content material and newsletters.
It has pledged to speculate £25 million within the Observer, with a dedication to proceed printing on a Sunday.
Appearing editor Lucy Rock will turn out to be the newspaper’s editor of print.
She stated it was a “big privilege to be entrusted with the editorship” of the Observer and that she was trying ahead to constructing a “dynamic digital identification” for the paper.
The primary Observer underneath Tortoise possession is predicted to be revealed within the spring.
Tortoise stated it had promised to fulfill all key employment phrases for any members of employees, in addition to freelancers and contributors, who want to preserve working for the corporate.
It beforehand stated its funding would result in not less than 12 new roles for employees reporters and a near-doubling of the editorial price range.
The Observer is to fall beneath the possession of Tortoise Media, a fledgling digital start-up, in a binding deal signed after weeks of controversy concerning the destiny of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper.
Guardian Media Group (GMG) and the Scott Belief introduced on Wednesday morning that the title can be acquired by Tortoise, even because the eco-tycoon Dale Vince made a last-ditch bid to wrest management of it.
In a letter despatched to Guardian bosses on Wednesday and seen by Sky Information, Mr Vince pledged to function the Observer from throughout the Inexperienced Britain Basis so as to replicate its present trust-based possession construction.
Mr Vince has been concerned in an more and more vocal public battle with the newspaper’s present homeowners about his curiosity in buying it.
In his letter on Wednesday, the Ecotricity founder additionally stated he would retain the Observer’s print version and identified {that a} deal involving him wouldn’t require further exterior funding.
Saying the take care of Tortoise Media, GMG stated that Lucy Rock had been appointed editor of the print version of the Observer, making her the primary lady to supervise the newspaper in 100 years.
Tortoise has promised to take a position £25m within the Sunday title, of which £5m will come from the Scott Belief.
“This deal secures contemporary funding and concepts for the Observer that can take the title to new audiences and improve the function liberal journalism performs in our society,” Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Belief, stated:
“Now we have taken steps to enshrine our values within the new possession construction and the Scott Belief will proceed to play an necessary and energetic function within the Observer’s future by an possession stake and board membership.”
The prospect of the deal triggered the primary strike motion by Guardian and Observer journalists for many years.
Mr Vince joined them on the picket line final week, and had expressed critical curiosity in shopping for the Observer previous to Wednesday’s letter, in keeping with these near him.
A union assembly to debate additional industrial motion is scheduled for Friday, in keeping with insiders.
The take care of Tortoise locations the Observer in new possession for the primary time because the early Nineteen Nineties.
Based in 1791, its takeover by a digital media startup underlines the shifting dynamics sweeping the worldwide information media panorama.
A Tortoise Media spokesman stated its buyers had dedicated to a contemporary funding spherical no matter whether or not the Observer deal had gone by.
The standalone enterprise was on observe to interrupt even within the fourth quarter of this 12 months and to attain profitability subsequent 12 months, the spokesman added.
Bho chòraichean gintinn gu atharrachadh clìomaid gu Large Tech, tha The Unbiased air an talamh nuair a tha an sgeulachd a’ leasachadh. Co-dhiù a tha e a’ sgrùdadh ionmhas an pro-Trump PAC aig Elon Musk no a’ toirt a-mach am prògram aithriseach as ùire againn, ‘The A Phrase’, a tha a’ deàrrsadh air na boireannaich Ameireaganach a tha a’ strì airson còraichean gintinn, tha fios againn cho cudromach sa tha e na fìrinnean a sgrùdadh. teachdaireachdan.
Aig àm cho èiginneach ann an eachdraidh nan SA, tha feum againn air luchd-aithris air an talamh. Leigidh an tabhartas agad leinn cumail oirnn a’ cur luchd-naidheachd a bhruidhinn ri gach taobh den sgeulachd.
Tha earbsa aig Ameireaganaich thar an speactram poilitigeach gu lèir anns an Unbiased. Agus eu-coltach ri mòran ionadan naidheachd càileachd eile, tha sinn a’ roghnachadh gun a bhith a’ glasadh Ameireaganaich a-mach às ar n-aithris agus mion-sgrùdadh le ballachan pàighidh. Tha sinn den bheachd gum bu chòir naidheachdas càileachd a bhith ri fhaighinn leis a h-uile duine, le pàigheadh air a shon leis an fheadhainn as urrainn a phàigheadh.
Bidh an taic agad a’ dèanamh diofar mòr.
Dhearbh sealbhadair pàipear-naidheachd British’s Guardian Diciadain gu bheil iad air an Observer, am pàipear-naidheachd Didòmhnaich as sine san t-saoghal, a reic ri Turtar Meadhanan airson cìs nach deach fhoillseachadh.
Thuirt Urras Scott, leis a bheil an Guardian Media Group, ann an aithris gu bheil Tortoise Media a’ ceannach an Observer tro mheasgachadh de airgead agus earrannan.
An Neach-amhairca chaidh a stèidheachadh ann an 1791 agus a thàinig gu bhith na phàirt den Guardian Media Group ann an 1993, na bhunait de luachan libearalach ann an cruth-tìre meadhanan Bhreatainn.
Chaidh Tortoise a chuir air bhog ann an 2019 le Seumas Harding, a bha na neach-deasachaidh air an Lunnainn Occasions agus stiùiriche naidheachdan a’ BhBC, agus seann thosgaire na SA a Lunnainn, Matthew Barzun.
Mar phàirt den aonta, tha Tortoise air aonta malairteach còig bliadhna aontachadh le GMG, a chì e pàigheadh airson seirbheisean clò-bhualaidh is cuairteachaidh, a bharrachd air margaidheachd tron Guardian. Bidh Urras Scott cuideachd a’ gabhail com-pàirt 9% ann an Tortoise Media agus a’ gealltainn 5 millean not ($ 6.3 millean) a-steach do Tortoise Media mar phàirt den tasgadh 25 millean not.
“Bidh an aonta search engine optimization a’ gleidheadh tasgadh agus beachdan ùra don Neach-amhairc a bheir an tiotal gu luchd-èisteachd ùr agus a chuireas ris an àite a th’ aig naidheachdas libearalach sa chomann-shòisealta againn,” thuirt Ole Jacob Sunde, cathraiche Urras Scott.
Chaidh ainmeachadh cuideachd gun deach Lucy Rock ainmeachadh mar neach-deasachaidh clò an Observer, a’ chiad bhoireannach a bha os cionn a’ phàipear-naidheachd ann an 100 bliadhna. Bidh i ag obair còmhla ri neach-deasachaidh didseatach, fhad ‘s a bhios an Observer a’ togail a brannd air-loidhne fhèin. Bidh Rock ag aithris do Harding, a bhios na phrìomh neach-deasachaidh.
Tha luchd-naidheachd air feadh Buidheann Meadhanan Guardian air a dhol an aghaidh an reic a chaidh a mholadh, a thàinig gu crìch le stailc 48-uair na bu thràithe sa mhìos search engine optimization.
Tha iad sin air a bhith o chionn beagan sheachdainean duilich ann am beatha Am Concern-gleidhidh. An toiseach, sguab Dòmhnall Trump gu cumhachd, a’ brosnachadh an neach-deasachaidh Katherine Viner gus comhairleachadh a thabhann don luchd-obrach. An uairsin, chaidh mòran den luchd-naidheachd aice air stailc airson dà latha, a’ gearan mu reic pàipear-naidheachd piuthar The Guardian, Ttha e na neach-amhairc air Tortoise Media. Chaidh an aonta aontachadh an t-seachdain sa chaidh le sealbhadair nan tiotalan, Guardian Media Group agus a phàrant, Urras Scott.
An toiseach, Trump. Thuirt Viner gum biodh an toradh “troimh-chèile dha mòran eile” a rèir “troimh-chèile dha mòran eile” a rèir làrach-lìn Guido Fawkes, ag ràdh: “Ma tha thu airson bruidhinn mu dheidhinn, tha do mhanaidsear agus buill den sgioba stiùiridh uile rim faighinn. , mar a tha sgioba nan Daoine. Tha cothrom ann cuideachd air seirbheisean taic an-asgaidh.” Às deidh dha a h-uile càil a dhèanamh, a thaobh deasachaidh, mu bhith a’ dèanamh a’ chùis air Trump, nach b’ urrainn a bhith nas diametrically an aghaidh The Guardian, bha còir aig a’ phàipear ugh a bhith air aodann. Chaidh a luchd-naidheachd a phronnadh, ach leigheas?
Bha dòigh eile ann air buaidh Trump fhaicinn, is e sin airson tiotal na làimhe clì, bha e na chothrom malairteach air leth. Aig àm a bha cho duilich dha The Guardian – riaghladh Mairead Thatcher – bha ùine shoirbheachail aig a’ phàipear-naidheachd. Nuair a bhuannaich Thatcher taghadh 1979, b’ e 379,000 a reic cuibheasach; mun àm a leig i dhith a dreuchd ann an 1990 bha e 434,000. Leis an sin cuideachd thàinig foillseachadh leudaichte, worry a bha a’ losgadh air a h-uile siolandair agus aig an robh adhbhar sgrùdaidh dìoghrasach.
Gus a bhith cothromach, thug Viner misneachd do luchd-leughaidh ann an deasachaidh gum biodh am pàipear “a’ seasamh suas ri ceithir bliadhna eile de Dhòmhnall Trump ”, agus dìreach an-dè dh’ ainmich e cha chuireadh e publish oifigeil tuilleadh air Xa’ tagradh An caraid ùr as fheàrr aig Trump, Elon Musk air an àrd-ùrlar a th’ aige a chleachdadh gus conaltradh poilitigeach a chumadh. Sgrìobh Viner: “Le Trump mìosan air falbh bho bhith a’ gabhail dreuchd a-rithist – le buaidh mhòr air cogaidhean san Úcráin agus san Ear Mheadhanach, slàinte deamocrasaidh Ameireagaidh, còraichean gintinn, neo-ionannachd agus, is dòcha gu sònraichte, ar n-àm ri teachd àrainneachdail – tha an t-àm ann airson. gus ar n-oidhirpean ath-dhùblachadh gus an ceann-suidhe taghte agus an fheadhainn a tha timcheall air a chumail cunntachail.”
A’ tagradh airson tabhartasan, thuirt i gum biodh am pàipear aice “a’ seasamh suas ris na bagairtean sin, ach gun toir e neo-eisimeileach treun le deagh mhaoineachadh naidheachdas. Gabhaidh e aithris nach gabh a leantainn le sealbhadair billeanair a tha fo eagal dìoghaltas bho bhurraidh anns an Taigh Gheal ”.
Is e an iomradh mu dheireadh search engine optimisation, anns a’ chùis search engine optimisation air a stiùireadh gu The Washington Put up agus an sealbhadair beairteach aige, Jeff Bezos, a tha do luchd-amhairc a’ ghnìomhachais a-mhàin a’ toirt ionnsaigh air agus a’ soilleireachadh an t-siorruidheachd a tha aig cridhe The Guardian.
Ged nach eil e a’ dìon suidheachadh Bezos, faodaidh Viner a chuir a-mach san dòigh search engine optimisation leis nach eil e mar dhleastanas air The Guardian, eu-coltach ri prìomh phàipearan-naidheachd eile, feuchainn ri prothaid a dhèanamh agus airgead an neach-seilbh aige a dhìon. Chan fheum iad cluich leis na riaghailtean a tha a’ riaghladh phàipearan-naidheachd eile, gu dearbh a bhios a’ riaghladh a’ mhòr-chuid de ghnìomhachasan eile; Anns a’ Urras ScottTha sealbhadair air leth fialaidh aig pàipear Viner, a tha a rèir coltais comhfhurtail a’ faighinn seachad air name bliadhnail, an-dràsta £36.5millean iongantach, suas bho £21millean a’ bhliadhna roimhe.
Tha dòigh-obrach coltach ri Pravda aig an Guardian airson a bhith ag aithris air fhèin gu mì-shealbhach cealgach
Mar sheòrsa de fhèin-fhastaichte meadhanan àrd-shagart, tha pàipear Viner gu sgiobalta a’ toirt ionnsaigh air farpaisich, ag ainmeachadh nach ann le cuideigin le pòcaidean gun bhonn a tha e, eu-coltach riutha, gun a bhith ag ràdh gu bheil The Guardian ann an seilbh urras air leth beairteach a tha comasach air ìre de dhìlseachd ionmhais a leudachadh nach biodh ach ainneamh. fhulang ann an àite eile.
Gu dearbh, tha dòigh-obrach coltach ri Pravda aig The Guardian airson a bhith ag aithris air fhèin – an taca ris a bhith a’ lagachadh a cho-fharpaisich gu cunbhalach – mar aon de na rudan a tha a’ cur dragh air daoine agus a tha cuideachd a’ coimhead gu neo-thròcaireach don eòlaiche fèin-proifeasanta ann an roinn nam meadhanan. Leis na Làbaraich ann an cumhachd, bu chòir don phàipear a bhith a’ marcachd àrd, ach tha am pàipear air fulang gu mòr ri strì a-staigh aig a’ phrìomh oifis aige aig King’s Cross, far a bheil sgaraidhean domhainn sa bhuidheann gu ìre mhòr a’ tuiteam coltach ri luchd-dealasach Starmer an aghaidh Corbynite refuseniks.
Is e an trom-laighe as ùire an sgàineadh eadar seasamh cruaidh-chlì an aghaidh Palestine agus an co-aoisean nas meadhanach.
Tha an luchd-obrach coltach ri suidheachadh Viner ri sabaid coitcheann air dà thaobh. Air aon làimh tha luchd-obrach ann a tha a’ faireachdainn gun deach an gluasad gu falbh air sgàth an fhàilteachaidh reòthte airson na beachdan aca air an taobh cheart, air an làimh eile tha ceannairc anns a’ phàipear bho luchd-obrach na làimhe clì nach eil a’ creidsinn gu bheil Viner radaigeach gu leòr. Is e an trom-laighe as ùire dha Viner an sgàineadh gargantuan eadar suidheachadh na h-eileamaidean cruaidh Clì thairis air Palestine agus an co-aoisean nas meadhanach.
Tha bròn ann cuideachd mu Adrian Chiles, a bha na phreasantair telebhisean spòrs a chaidh ath-phacaigeadh gu neo-fhaicsinneach mar neach-colbh dòigh-beatha rionnag a’ phàipear-naidheachd. Tha e coltach gur e Chile an duine aig an neach-deasachaidh.
Chan eil beachdachadh air an t-saoghal fhìor, a thaobh a bhith cunntachail do neach-seilbh a tha ag iarraidh gu ceart, a tha an cois luchd-deasachaidh eile, a’ buntainn ri Viner agus an sgioba aice – chan ann chun na h-ìre ’s a nì iad dha co-aoisean The Guardian. A-nis ge-tà, tha comharran atharrachaidh ann, nach urrainn eadhon Urras Scott fìreanachadh a-rithist is a-rithist a’ stèidheachadh dè a tha, a rèir inbhean duine, na bhile mòr bliadhnail. Fhad ‘s a bha Viner a’ toirt a balm socair, bha cùis tòcail eile a ’dol air falbh air a’ chùl. San t-Sultain, dhearbh Guardian Media Group (GMG) gu bheil iad ann an còmhraidhean airson a reic An Neach-amhairc gu Tortoise Media. Is e pàirt den aon stàball bho 1993, The Observer, a chaidh a stèidheachadh ann an 1791, am pàipear-naidheachd Didòmhnaich as sine san t-saoghal.
Thàinig Tortoise, air a ruith le seann neach-deasachaidh an Instances, Seumas Harding, gu GMG le “tairgse a bha cudromach gu leòr airson coimhead air ann am barrachd mionaideachd”. Tha turtar an dùil £25millean a thasgadh thairis air an ath chòig bliadhna san tiotal.
Thuirt Harding: “Tha sinn den bheachd gur e The Observer aon de na h-ainmean as motha anns na naidheachdan. Tha sinn a’ creidsinn gu dìoghrasach san àm ri teachd – an dà chuid ann an clò agus didseatach.”
Cha robh search engine optimisation ach a’ cur dragh air luchd-obrach agus cuid de luchd-dealasach ainmeil The Observer. Chaidh litir fhosgailte a shoidhnigeadh le prìomh dhaoine cultarach, a’ gabhail a-steach Invoice Nighy, Mary Beard agus Ralph Fiennes, ag ainmeachadh a’ chùmhnant “tubaisteach” agus ag ràdh, “Ged a tha figearan de £100millean gan cur a-steach airson foillseachaidhean eile, tha an dòigh-obrach search engine optimisation le droch mhaoineachadh a’ suidheachadh luach An Neach-amhairc aig no faisg air neoni.”
Tha luchd-obrach iongnadh beag suas ann an gàirdeanan. Thathas den bheachd gu bheil an Observer a’ name timcheall air £5millean sa bhliadhna. Ann an co-theacs a’ chall iomlan, no mar as toil le GMG a ràdh, “às-sruthadh airgid” de £ 36.5millean, chan eil sin mòran. Ach tha iad air an tilgeil fo bhus. Tha tàmailt ann cuideachd mu roghainn Harding. Na neach-naidheachd clò mòr le spèis mhòr, aig an Monetary Instances, an uairsin The Instances agus BBC, tha e, no bha e, na shoisgeulaiche airson didseatach a-mhàin – tha Tortoise gu tur air-loidhne. Ach tha e a-nis a’ cur cuideam air san àm ri teachd, fuirichidh The Observer ann an clò.
Tha e a’ cur cuideam air didseatach cuideachd, agus a-rithist, far a bheil dragh air The Observer agus a phàrant gnàthach, tha search engine optimisation na adhbhar dragh. Chan eil làthaireachd lìn susbainteach fèin-sheasmhach aig an Neach-amhairc; tha e air a thoirt a-steach don àrd-ùrlar air-loidhne seachd-latha aig The Guardian, a tha GMG air ainmeachadh gun lean e a dh’ aindeoin mar a thèid na còmhraidhean le Harding air adhart. Mar sin, bidh The Guardian a’ farpais leis an tiotal piuthar a bh’ ann roimhe.
Tha an dàimh aca, ge-tà, air a bhith na dàimh neònach a-riamh. Chaidh an Observer a cheannach sa chiad àite dìreach gus nach tuiteadh e ann an làmhan a’ cho-fharpaiseach The Unbiased. Bhon uairsin, tha iad air a bhith ann còmhla.
Tha an reic a chaidh a mholadh ri Harding, ge-tà, air riaghladh a dhèanamh air a bhith ag aonachadh luchd-naidheachd air an dà phàipear nan aghaidh. Dh’ainmich Aonadh Nàiseanta an Luchd-naidheachd gun tug baileat de luchd-deasachaidh air na tiotalan “baileat taisbeanach uamhasach airson gnìomhachd gnìomhachais. Dhaingnich naochad ’s a trì sa cheud de luchd-naidheachd gu robh iad deònach a dhol air stailc, le 96 sa cheud airson gnìomh gann ri stailc.” Thachair an stad sin, a mhair 48 uairean, an t-seachdain sa chaidh. Tha barrachd air a phlanadh.
Chan eil mòran fiosrachaidh mu dhoimhneachd stòrasan Turtar. Chruthaich companaidh Harding teachd-a-steach de £ 6.2millean ann an 2022, a’ leantainn gu name de £ 4.6m. Dha luchd-coimhead pàipear-naidheachd eòlach, chan eil coltas gu bheil in-stealladh de £25millean thairis air còig bliadhna gu leòr, gun a bhith ag atharrachadh fortan a’ phàipeir ann an clò agus ann an didseatach. Fhad ‘s a tha e air tuiteam air amannan cruaidh, tha an Observer air tasgadh a dhèanamh leis an eachdraidh fhada aige. Ach tha a chliù mar bhrand air a mheas gun luach.
Chan eil e na aonar, an dàrna cuid, ann am fulangas. Ann an 2021, sguir GMG bho bhith a’ leigeil a-mach na figearan cuairteachaidh aca air an tomhas le ABC, a’ bhuidheann oifigeil, a’ brosnachadh prothaideachadh gu robh na tiotalan aige a’ crìonadh ann an clò. An-diugh, thathas den bheachd gu bheil The Guardian a’ reic 60,000-plus leth-bhreacan Diluain gu Dihaoine, agus 100,000-plus Disathairne.
Eachdraidh chruaidh air The Guardian
1821 Air a stèidheachadh mar am Manchester Guardian, ga fhàgail mar aon de na pàipearan-naidheachd as sine san RA
1995 Bidh Alan Rusbridger a’ gabhail an t-srian mar neach-deasachaidh
2014 Lorg sgrùdadh gu bheil luchd-leughaidh àbhaisteach Guardian a’ dol a-steach do choiseachd, dèidheil air Waitrose agus tha na prìomh shoithichean aca antipasti, braised endive agus parmigiana
2015 Katharine Viner air a taghadh mar neach-deasachaidh
2023 £36.5m ann an name a chaidh aithris anns na naoi mìosan mu dheireadh den bhliadhna
Tha Harding air ro-aithris gun tòisich an Neach-amhairc aige a’ faighinn cothrom air cothromachadh ann an 2027 nuair a ruigeas e bunait clò-bhualaidh is ballrachd didseatach de 134,000. Thathas an dùil gum bi luchd-aontachaidh didseatach a’ dèanamh suas mu dhà thrian den luchd-leughaidh iomlan ro 2029.
Tha am plana aige stèidhichte air làrach-lìn The Observer a chuir air cùl balla-pàighidh. Dh’ fhaodadh cìs ballrachd de £ 10 sa mhìos airson ruigsinneachd, mar an tè a dh’ fheumadh The Spectator, còrr air £20millean a ghineadh ann an teachd-a-steach luchd-èisteachd. Bhiodh e an cois sin le bhith a’ cumail thachartasan beò le tiogaidean agus bho sanasachd. Chan eilear ag ràdh gu bheil an ìre de chall obrach a dh’ fhaodadh a thighinn air adhart fhad ‘s a tha e a’ carachd gus a chall a dhèanamh seasmhach.
Is e an rud a tha ag adhbhrachadh fearg nach e dìreach saidheans rocaid a th’ ann am modail Harding – chan eil dìreach taic sam bith airson an seòrsa dòigh-obrach sin taobh a-staigh GMG, a tha dìreach airson an tiotal a luchdachadh sìos. Tha gealltanas aig Urras Scott an Guardian a chumail gu bràth, gealltanas nach leudaich gu The Observer. Tha coimeas an Spectator gu sònraichte brosnachail – o chionn ghoirid dh’ atharraich e làmhan airson £ 100millean. Bidh e a’ dèanamh prothaid, an-dràsta £ 4.8millean sa bhliadhna – rudeigin a tha Harding gu soilleir den bheachd a ghabhas coileanadh leis an Observer.
Tha mothachadh ann gu bheil e a ‘faighinn bargan, gu bheil GMG dìreach ag iarraidh cuidhteas, gus fòcas a chur air fàs The Guardian ann an didseatach eadar-nàiseanta. Tha càirdeas fad-ùine Harding ri Anna Bateson, àrd-oifigear GMG, cuideachd na chonnadh air an teine. Tha a’ chàraid air saor-làithean còmhla ri an cèile air bòrd bàta-siùil luach £15m a bhuineadh don bhilleanair cian-chonaltraidh, Sir Teàrlach Dunstone. Bha Bateson ann oir bha an duine aice ag obair na stiùiriche air Dunstone’s Discuss Discuss. Thathas ag ràdh cuideachd gun do chòrd saor-làithean sgithidh còmhla ris an dà theaghlach.
Ach, tha Bateson air a bhith fosgailte mun dàimh aca agus thathar ag ràdh gu bheil GMG agus Urras Scott air an socair mu dheidhinn.
Tha e neònach gun deach GMG a-steach do chòmhraidhean a-mhàin le Harding, gun a bhith a’ dèanamh deuchainn air an uisge gus faicinn an robh luchd-tairgse eile ann – tha an tycoon a tha a’ toirt taic dha na Làbaraich, Dale Vince, airson aon, air an ùidh aige a dhearbhadh. Ge bith dè an dòigh anns an tèid a ghearradh, bidh reic The Observer a’ togail cheistean. Gu cinnteach, nan deidheadh ath-aithris ann an àite eile, bhiodh The Guardian air a h-uile càil, a’ togail teagamhan, a’ soilleireachadh lochdan agus is dòcha ag iarraidh ath-bheachdachadh. Ach mar a tha fios againn, nuair a thig an Guardian gu bhith a’ cumail sgàthan suas ris fhèin, tha an ìomhaigh buailteach a bhith caran doilleir.
The entrepreneur Dale Vince has made a recent method to the proprietor of The Guardian in a bid to steer it to open talks with him about The Observer, days after its sale was agreed to a digital start-up.
Sky Information has seen an electronic mail despatched on the weekend by Mr Vince to Ole Jacob Sunde by which he asks whether or not an interview given to a Sunday newspaper indicating that he was open to different talks about The Observer’s future represented “a change of place” from the left-wing newspaper writer.
Mr Vince, who had held talks with the Guardian Media Group chair, Charles Gurassa, previous to final week’s affirmation of The Observer’s sale to Tortoise Media, wrote to Mr Sunde: “I’m prepared to interact together with your workforce if you’re severe.
“I do not think about you count on a blind bid, or would take one severely, [and] a dialogue on the numbers subsequently could be the proper beginning place. Is that potential?”
“Broadly talking my intentions for the Observer match your individual; I am a fan and a reader and a believer in media pluralism.
“I function a bunch of firms that made £38m final 12 months on roughly £500m of turnover – all working within the inexperienced financial system.
“The Observer clearly wants a digital presence so as to stand alone, I imagine the print model is important to keep up – and the Guardian subscriber mannequin is I imagine the proper method.”
Mr Vince, who has based a string of inexperienced power companies and owns Forest Inexperienced Rovers Soccer Membership, is known to have written to Mr Sunde after the Scott Belief chair was requested by The Sunday Instances whether or not he would nonetheless take into account promoting to a rival to Tortoise Media.
“After all, at any time within the course of, you’ll hearken to folks coming to speak to you,” Mr Sunde instructed The Sunday Instances.
“And we’ll hear, as now we have completed with all of the completely different bidders which have come.”
Nevertheless, his feedback seemed to be at odds with a subsequent electronic mail despatched by Mr Sunde in response to Mr Vince’s newest overture – which has additionally been seen by Sky Information.
“Our place hasn’t modified and we’re nonetheless not ready to have discussions with different events,” Mr Sunde instructed the entrepreneur.
“You’re the solely one that has addressed us, revealing your identification and intentions.”
Regardless of saying that the Scott Belief had no grounds to speak to rival bidders, Mr Sunde concluded his electronic mail: “Could I recommend that any additional queries are directed to [Charles Gurassa] at this level.”
A GMG spokeswoman confirmed on Monday that the corporate remained in unique discussions with Tortoise Media, having stated final Thursday that it anticipated a proper sale settlement to be signed inside days.
The Scott Belief has pledged to take a position £5m into Tortoise Media in alternate for a stake and a board seat, in an try to placate livid Guardian and Observer journalists.
Final week, they went on strike for 2 days in protest on the sale.
On Friday, Mr Vince accused the newspapers’ homeowners of telling “a whole untruth” about his curiosity in The Observer.
“I do not perceive why my curiosity within the Observer continues to be mischaracterised by the Guardian/Scott Belief,” he instructed Sky Information.
One supply stated that the obvious combined messaging from GMG and the Scott Belief raised vital questions on company governance on the two organisations, and stated the “fiasco” would put severe stress on the organisations’ management.
Paul Webster, who till final month was The Observer’s editor, accused Mr Sunde of failing to seek the advice of him or colleagues on the paper concerning the sale.
If the cope with Tortoise Media completes, it is going to see The Observer in new possession for the primary time because the early Nineties.
Based in 1791, it’s the oldest Sunday newspaper on this planet.
Its takeover by a digital media startup will underline the shifting dynamics sweeping the worldwide information media panorama.
GMG and the Scott Belief declined to remark past confirming the accuracy of Mr Sunde’s quotes in The Sunday Instances.
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The pinnacle of the UK’s union motion has weighed in on the backlash over the sale of The Observer newspaper, urging its proprietor to “press pause” on the controversial transaction amid employees uproar forward of extra deliberate strikes subsequent.
Commerce Union Congress general-secretary Paul Nowak joined the condemnation from the Nationwide Union of Journalists on Friday, which led a employees strike within the lead-up to the deliberate sale by Guardian Media Group and the Scott Belief of the Sunday newspaper to start-up Tortoise Media.
“The Observer is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and is a crucial a part of our media panorama,” Mr Nowak stated in a press release to The Impartial.
“It is extremely disappointing that Guardian Media Group and Scott’s Belief are fast-tracking this sale – regardless of widespread opposition from loyal employees. We urge Guardian Media Group and the Scott’s Belief to press pause and to hearken to its employees. It’s the very least they deserve.”
Workers have raised fears concerning the sustainability of the outlet beneath new possession, together with discussions on placing in a paywall, which the NUJ stated these in opposition to the merger believed would mute a “distinctive voice in Britain’s nationwide dialog”.
Tortoise Media was launched in 2018 by former BBC govt and Instances editor James Harding and Matthew Barzun, a former US ambassador.
The beginning-up, which specialises in what it calls “sluggish information”, stated it has dedicated to safeguard journalistic freedom and the editorial independence of The Observer, enterprise to honour the “liberal values and journalistic requirements” of the Scott Belief in its editorial code.
The 2 days of strikes this week have been supported by plenty of politicians and well-known cultural figures together with Grayson Perry, Lemn Sissay, Anne Robinson, Michael Rosen and Stewart Lee, and backed by messages of help from stars together with Tilda Swinton, Maxine Peake and Armando Iannucci.
In a press release launched after 5pm on Friday, members of the Guardian and Observer NUJ chapel stated they have been “outraged to get up to information this morning that members of the Scott Belief had chosen to approve the deal whereas our motion was going down.”
“The choice to maneuver forward with the deal, in precept, underlined their refusal to tackle board the well-founded objections and energy of opposition from journalists and readers,” the chapel stated in a press release.
Nevertheless, Anna Bateson, chief govt of Guardian Media Group, assured employees the sale would defend the paper’s future, “making certain it could proceed producing distinctive liberal journalism, on-line and in print, for years to return.”
Mr Harding, editor and founding father of Tortoise, stated: “We’re honoured and excited on the prospect of working collectively to resume The Observer, a reputation that represents the most effective of liberal, pioneering journalism.
“We admire its temperament, each tolerant and humane. We love its urge for food for the humanities and, in fact, meals. We promise its readers we’ll do all we are able to to reside as much as its historical past as a defender of human dignity and to offer it a brand new lease of life as a strong, progressive voice on the earth.”
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Aig àm cho èiginneach ann an eachdraidh nan SA, tha feum againn air luchd-aithris air an talamh. Leigidh an tabhartas agad leinn cumail oirnn a’ cur luchd-naidheachd gus bruidhinn ri gach taobh den sgeulachd.
Tha earbsa aig Ameireaganaich thar an speactram poilitigeach gu lèir anns an Unbiased. Agus eu-coltach ri mòran ionadan naidheachdan càileachd eile, tha sinn a’ roghnachadh gun a bhith a’ glasadh Ameireaganaich a-mach às an aithris is mion-sgrùdadh againn le ballachan pàighidh. Tha sinn den bheachd gum bu chòir naidheachdas càileachd a bhith ri fhaighinn leis a h-uile duine, le pàigheadh air a shon leis an fheadhainn as urrainn a phàigheadh.
Bidh an taic agad a’ dèanamh diofar mòr.
Reic an Observer, am pàipear Didòmhnaich as sine san t-saoghal, ri Tortoise tòiseachaidh naidheachdan Na meadhanan air aontachadh.
Thàinig gluasad bho bhùird an t-sealbhadair aca Urras Scott agus Buidheann Meadhanan an Guardian às deidh stailc 48-uair an t-seachdain web optimization le luchd-naidheachd air an Observer and the Guardian mar ghearan aig an fhèill.
Thuirt Urras Scott gun cuireadh iad airgead an seilbh ann an Tortoise Media, gu bhith na phrìomh neach-earrannan, a’ gabhail àite air gach cuid na bùird deasachaidh agus malairteach aca.
Tha mi ag aithneachadh cho duilich sa tha an ùine web optimization do luchd-obrach Observer, ach tha sinn cinnteach gu bheil sinn air an t-slighe air adhart as fheàrr aontachadh airson luchd-naidheachd an tiotail, a luchd-leughaidh agus àm ri teachd an dà chuid an Observer agus an Guardian
Katharine Viner, prìomh neach-deasachaidh Guardian Information & Media
Chì an aonta £ 25 millean ann an tasgadh ùr airson pàipear-naidheachd Didòmhnaich 233-bliadhna, le gealltanas an Observer a chlò-bhualadh air Didòmhnaich agus plana gus a thogail na bhrand didseatach le bùird Urras Scott agus Guardian Media. Buidheann, dh’ainmich iad.
Chaidh Tortoise Media a chuir air bhog ann an 2018 le seann BBC àrd-oifigear agus neach-deasachaidh Instances Seumas Harding agus Matthew Barzun, a bha na thosgaire sna SA.
Thuirt an neach-tòiseachaidh, a tha gu sònraichte an ainm “naidheachdan slaodach”, gu bheil iad air gealltainn saorsa naidheachdas agus neo-eisimeileachd deasachaidh an Neach-amhairc a dhìon, a’ gealltainn urram a thoirt do “luachan libearalach agus inbhean naidheachdas” Urras Scott nan deasachadh. còd.
Tha sinn a’ toirt meas air a stuamachd, an dà chuid fulangach agus daonnach. Tha sinn dèidheil air a mhiann airson na h-ealain agus, gu dearbh, biadh. Tha sinn a’ gealltainn dha luchd-leughaidh gun dèan sinn nas urrainn dhuinn gus cumail suas ri a h-eachdraidh mar neach-dìon urram daonna agus beatha ùr a thoirt dha mar ghuth cumhachdach, adhartach san t-saoghal.
Seumas Harding air an Observer
Thathas an dùil gun tèid an aonta a shoidhnigeadh anns na làithean a tha romhainn.
Thuirt Mgr Harding, neach-deasachaidh agus neach-stèidhidh Tortoise: “Tha e na urram agus na thoileachas dhuinn a bhith ag obair còmhla gus ùrachadh. An Neach-amhaircainm a tha a’ riochdachadh a’ chuid as fheàrr de naidheachdas libearalach, adhartach.
“Tha sinn a’ toirt meas air a stuamachd, an dà chuid fulangach agus daonnach. Tha sinn dèidheil air a mhiann airson na h-ealain agus, gu dearbh, biadh. Tha sinn a’ gealltainn don luchd-leughaidh gun dèan sinn nas urrainn dhuinn gus a bhith beò suas ris an eachdraidh aige mar neach-dìon urram daonna agus beatha ùr a thoirt dha mar ghuth cumhachdach, adhartach san t-saoghal.”
Thuirt Matthew Barzun, cathraiche agus neach-stèidhidh Tortoise: “Sheall am pròiseas web optimization an spèis mhòr agus an ceangal dìoghrasach a th’ aig uimhir ris a’ phàipear-naidheachd Didòmhnaich as sine san t-saoghal.
“Tha mi air leth taingeil airson ar com-pàirtichean tasgaidh, a’ gabhail a-steach Urras Scott, agus iad uile an dùil ri naidheachdas neo-eisimeileach den chàileachd as àirde.
“Tha sinn làn de mhothachadh uamhasach air uallach agus sinn nar pàirt den sgeulachd fhada againn agus com-pàirtichean ann a bhith a’ roinn nan sgeulachdan a chumas e ag innse o chionn fhada.”
Thuirt Katharine Viner, prìomh neach-deasachaidh Guardian Information & Media: “Tha mi ag aithneachadh cho duilich sa tha an ùine web optimization do luchd-obrach Observer, ach tha sinn misneachail gu bheil sinn air an t-slighe air adhart as fheàrr aontachadh airson luchd-naidheachd an tiotail, a luchd-leughaidh agus àm ri teachd an dà chuid an Observer agus an Guardian.
“Is e modail a th’ ann a chì tasgadh ann an naidheachdas agus luchd-naidheachd, a chuireas ri luachan Urras Scott san àm ri teachd aig an Neach-amhairc, agus a dhìonas comas an Observer and Guardian cumail orra a’ toirt a-mach naidheachdas libearalach earbsach.”
Thuirt Anna Bateson, àrd-oifigear Guardian Media Group: “Glèidhidh an tasgadh web optimization dìleab 233-bliadhna an Neach-amhairc agus dìonaidh e àm ri teachd a’ phàipeir, a’ dèanamh cinnteach gun urrainn dha leantainn air adhart a’ toirt a-mach naidheachdas libearalach air leth, air-loidhne agus ann an clò, airson bliadhnaichean ri thighinn. Mar bhunait ris a h-uile càil bidh dealas leantainneach a thaobh a bhith a’ brosnachadh pàipearan saor agus a’ cumail neo-eisimeileachd deasachaidh.
“Tha an aonta cuideachd a’ toirt taic do shoirbheachas fad-ùine an Guardian, a’ togail air ar fàs air feadh na cruinne agus air feadh didseatach, agus sinn a’ cumail oirnn a’ cur luchd-leughaidh aig cridhe ar naidheachdas air leth.”
Thuirt Laura Davison, rùnaire coitcheann Aonadh Nàiseanta an Luchd-naidheachd: “Bidh buill aig an Guardian and Observer feargach agus air leth briseadh-dùil gu bheil Urras Scott agus bùird GMG air roghnachadh aonta a thoirt don aonta ann am prionnsapal gus an Observer a reic ri Tortoise Media a dh’ aindeoin aonta an aonaidh. gairm airson barrachd ùine airson beachdachadh air web optimization agus roghainnean eile.
“Tha àm a’ cho-dhùnaidh, ro dheireadh dà latha gnìomh le taic fìor mhath, gu sònraichte dubhach. Tha an NUJ bidh an caibeal a’ coinneachadh nas fhaide air adhart an-diugh gus beachdachadh air an fhreagairt aca.”
Fhuair an dà latha de stailcean an t-seachdain web optimization taic bho ghrunn luchd-poilitigs agus daoine cultarach ainmeil, nam measg Grayson Perry, Lemn Sissay, Anne Robinson, Michael Rosen agus Stiùbhart Lee, le taic bho teachdaireachdan taic bho rionnagan a’ toirt a-steach Tilda Swinton, Maxine Peake agus Armando Iannucci.
