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Headline : The Observer sale is good news – time to embrace the future

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At the weekend, a friend who is also a liberal grandee asked me sorrowfully about the sale of The Observer to the start-up media company Tortoise. What did I, as a former Sunday newspaper editor, think of this betrayal of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?

I replied that I was moved by the protests, of seeing the celebrated Robert Harris and Anne Robinson on the picket line with junior staff, but that I was optimistic about the sale. We can’t let the romance of the past blind us to the peril of the present, or to any lifeboats which promise a future.

The Scott Trust has protected The Guardian and The Observer from the crashing storms that the rest of the newspaper world has been going through, but funds are finite and readers declining.

As editor of the Sunday Telegraph, I tried to find new audiences in the eight months I was permitted before being sacked for insurrection. Before that, I was in charge of the Saturday Telegraph, which was called the new Sunday, piling on supplements and readers. But bulk started to look wasteful.

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