Telegraph.co.uk
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- The correct title of this article is telegraph.co.uk. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
telegraph.co.uk is the online version of British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Originally named the electronic telegraph (the initial lowercase was a marketing device), it was launched at midday on 15 November 1994 at the headquarters of The Daily Telegraph at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, the site was Europe's first daily web-based newspaper.
The website, hosted on a Sun Microsystems Sparc 20 server and connected via a 64 kbit/s leased line from Demon Internet, was edited by Ben Rooney. Key personnel behind the launch of the site were the then marketing manager of The Daily Telegraph, Hugo Drayton, and the webmaster Fiona Carter. Drayton later became managing director of the newspaper.
Derek Bishton followed Rooney as editor, to be succeeded by Richard Burton, who was made redundant in August 2006. Edward Roussel is now digital editor of the Telegraph Media Group. Bishton is now Consulting Editor of the group.
Other staff include Shane Richmond, communities editor, Ian Douglas, assistant editor, and Chei Amlani, online sport editor.
The site was later re-named telegraph.co.uk and has been the focus of the group's recent efforts to create an integrated news operation producing content for print and online from the same newsroom.
