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The Guardian and The Observer office at Kings Place, London, September 17, 2024
TALKS are under way to sell the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to news website Tortoise Media.
The Guardian Media Group is in exclusive discussions to sell the paper, founded in 1791, to the news business launched in 2019.
Tortoise approached the group with an offer to buy the publication and invest more than £25 million over the next five years in the editorial and commercial side of the business.
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
