Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

The Guardian apologises: founder owed wealth to slavery

The Guardian's progressive image has long been an obstacle for the newspaper to face how closely its history was linked to slavery.

The Guardian's owner apologises for historical slave trade links

The trust apologises "unreservedly" for The Guardian's founders' roles in this "crime against humanity".

The Guardian's historic front page: 'We apologize for our founder's ties to slavery'

John Edward Taylor, cotton merchant and journalist who founded the newspaper in 1821, did business with slavers in the Americas. And I know...

‘Awful history’: Guardian apologises for slavery links, flags reparations

The Scott Trust plans to launch an $18.4 million decade-long program of “restorative justice” to atone for the newspaper’s founders’ roles in the slave trade.

Great Britain: “Guardian” works up slavery connections from founders

The British newspaper is facing up to its past. There should be a series of articles on the slavery connections of its founders. Descendants of slaves get money.

The Guardian Newspaper Apologises for Slavery Links

The Guardian newspaper has apologised for its founder’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, has pledged 10 million pounds (US$12.3 million) to communities linked to the activities of John Edward Taylor, the journalist who started the paper in 1821. “The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement report, published on Tuesday, revealed that Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to …