Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords.

William Southam (August 23 1843 - February 27 1932) was a Canadian newspaper publisher. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he began his newspaper career working for the "London Free Press". The first newspaper he bought was the "Hamilton Spectator". He would own the "Ottawa Citizen", "Calgary Herald", "Edmonton Journal", "Windsor Star" and "Montreal Gazette". Robert Smiley, the founding publisher of "The Hamilton Spectator", …

Tara Singh Hayer, O.B.C. (November 15, 1936–November 18, 1998) was a Sikh Canadian newspaper publisher and murder victim. Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India. He emigrated to Canada in 1970, where he worked as a miner, teacher, truck-driver, manager of a trucking firm, and journalist before establishing a community newspaper, the "Indo-Canadian Times", in 1978. Hayer supported the creation of Khalistan, an independent, …

James (Jimmy) Allen Pattison, CM, OBC, (born October 1, 1928 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who is the chairman, president, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group. His company, the third largest privately held company in Canada owns numerous car dealerships, Overwaitea Foods and Save-On-Foods, Ripley's Believe it or Not, and radio & TV stations in British Columbia and Alberta.

John Ross Robertson (December 28 1841 - 31 May 1918) was a newspaper publisher and philanthropist in Toronto, Canada. Robertson was educated at Upper Canada College, a private high school in Toronto. As a young man, he started a newspaper at UCC called "Young Canada" and a satirical magazine, "The Grumbler". He was hired as a reporter and then city editor at "The Globe" in Toronto, but left "The Globe" to found "The Telegraph" in 1866.

George Maxwell "Max" Bell (13 October 1912 - 19 July 1972) was a Canadian newspaper publisher.

Joseph Edward Atkinson (December 23 1865 - May 7 1948) was a Canadian newspaper editor and activist. Under his leadership the Toronto Star became one of the most largest and most influential newspapers in Canada. Atkinson amassed a considerable fortune, eventually holding the controlling interest in the paper he edited. On his death control of the paper passed to the trustees of the Atkinson Foundation, a major canadian charity.

George Brown (November 29, 1818 - May 10, 1880) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform politician, he was also the founder and editor of the "Toronto Globe", which is today (having merged with other newspapers) known as the Globe and Mail. Brown was born in Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland, on November 29, 1818 and immigrated to Canada in 1843, …

Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, OC, OM, QC, LL.M, Ph.D. (August 11, 1932 - October 7, 2003), Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of CanWest Global Communications Corp. Israel Asper was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, the son of musicians who had emigrated from Ukraine. Asper attended the University of Manitoba. In 1957 he received his Bachelor of law degree from the University of Manitoba, and was called to the bar shortly thereafter.

Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan of Huntingdon (July 18 1848-January 28 1938), was a Canadian publisher of Scots-Quebec ancestry. Born in the village of Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada into a Scottish immigrant family of modest circumstances, he was educated at the local school and as a young boy went to the city of Montreal where he found work as a newspaper office boy with the "Montreal Daily Telegraph".

The Honourable Charles Herbert Mackintosh (1843 - December 22 1931) was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879-1881, represented Ottawa City in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893, and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898. He was born in London, Ontario in 1843, the son of an Irish immigrant. He began the study of law but instead entered the trade of journalism.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 - June 5, 1893) was a pioneering educator, newspaper publisher, abolitionist and suffragist in both the United States and Canada. She started the first racially-integrated school in Canada and was also the first female newspaper editor in Canada, establishing "The Provincial Freeman" in Windsor, Ontario. This was a weekly paper designed to cover the lives of Canadian blacks and promote the cause of black refugees to Canada.

John White Hughes Bassett, PC, OC, O.Ont (August 25, 1915 - April 27, 1998) was a Canadian publisher and media baron. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John Bassett (1886-1958), publisher of the "Montreal Gazette", and Margaret Avery. Bassett attended Ashbury College and graduated from Bishop's University with a BA in 1936. He became a reporter for the Toronto "Globe and Mail".

Lieutenant Colonel John Bayne Maclean (26 September 1862 - 25 September 1950) was a Canadian publisher. He founded "Maclean's Magazine", the "Financial Post" and the "Maclean Publishing Company", later known as Maclean-Hunter. He was born in Crieff, Ontario (near Guelph). Maclean's father, Andrew Maclean, was a Presbyterian minister in Puslinch Township who had immigrated to Canada from Scotland.

Alexander Fraser Pirie (October 1, 1849 - August 15, 1903) was a Canadian journalist, newspaper editor and member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada on October 1, 1849. Mr. Pirie's father was George Pirie (1799-1870), a native of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. His mother was Jane Booth (1825-1895), born in Lonmay Aberdeenshire to a family from Noss Island in the Shetland Islands. Mr.

Nicholas Flood Davin was a lawyer, journalist and politician, born at Kilfinane, Ireland on January 13, 1843. The first MP for Assiniboia West, Davin was known as the voice of the North-West. Davin was a parliamentary and war correspondent in England before arriving in Toronto in 1872, where he wrote for the "Globe and the Mail". Although a fully qualified lawyer, Davin practised little law. The highlight of his legal career was his 1880 defence of George Bennett, …

David Holmes Black (born April 9, 1946), a native of Vancouver founded and is the current owner of Black Press. The son of Alan and Adelaide Black, his family moved to Toronto where he attended school. In college, Black studied engineering and obtained a master's degree in business administration. In 1973, Black found a job at the "Toronto Star" newspaper as an analyst.

William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian - British business tycoon and politician.

John James Campbell McLagan (1838-1901) was a newspaper publisher born in Strathardle, Scotland on July 22, 1838. He later moved to Ontario, Canada where he managed the "Guelph Mercury" with MP James Innes. After living in Winnipeg he moved to Victoria sometime in late 1883. In Victoria he dealt in real estate and filed stories with "Toronto Globe". From 1884 to 1888 he operated the Victoria Times.

George Pirie (1799-1870) was a Canadian newspaper publisher. He emigrated to Canada from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father, also George Pirie, was a prominent Aberdeen merchant and ship owner. His mother was Katherine (Catherine) Mitchell Pirie, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mitchell, of the parish of Tarves, Aberdeenshire. He was educated in Scotland and in London, where he was apprenticed to his relative, Sir John Pirie, at one time the Lord Mayor of London. Mr.

Daniel Andrèa Iannuzzi was a Canadian entrepreneur, journalist, and broadcaster. A third generation Italian Canadian, Iannuzzi was born in Montreal. Dan Iannuzzi did more than bring Italian radio to Toronto. He founded the Italian-Canadian newspaper "Corriere Canadese" in 1954. He was the founder of the world's first multilingual television station broadcasting in 24 languages, CFMT-TV. In 1989, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.

David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson has been the Chairman of The Thomson Corporation since 2002. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 - June 12 2006) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the richest person in Canada, and the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $19.6 billion.

Sir Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE, D.Litt, D.C.L, LL.D, L.H.D. (June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976) was a newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur. Thomson was born in Toronto, the son of Herbert Thomson, an Ontario barber. Herbert Thomson was a telegraphist turned barber at the Grosvenor Hotel in Toronto and married English born Alice Coombs. He was born in Toronto to Hugh Thomson and Mary Nichol Sylvester.

John Bushell (March 18, 1715 - c. January 22, 1761) was the first printer in what is now Canada. Bushell was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was apprenticed as a printer there. He subsequently worked for a number of different printers and had his own printing business until 1751, when he left for Halifax, Nova Scotia. An partner of Bushell's, Bartholomew Green, following a century-long family tradition in the trade, …

(William) Rupert Davies (12 September, 1879 - 11 March, 1967) was a Canadian author, editor, newspaper publisher, and politician. Following a successful career as publisher of the "Kingston Whig-Standard", Davies was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 19 November 1942 on the recommendation of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Sitting as a Liberal, he represented the senatorial division of Kingston, Ontario, a position he held until his death.

John Honderich, CM, LL.B (born 1947) is a Canadian businessman who was the publisher of the "Toronto Star" from 1994 to 2004. John Honderich graduated from Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland, the University of Toronto and London School of Economics. His newspaper career began in 1973 as an office boy and night reporter for the "Ottawa Citizen".

Daniel Tracey (probably 1794 - July 18, 1832) was born in Roscrea, Tipperary County, Ireland, a doctor, journalist and Canadian politician. He is considered by some political historians to be a formidable early pioneer in the establishment of Canadian independent political thinking and democracy. He arrived in Lower Canada (today Quebec) with his younger siblings in 1825.

Philip Dansken Ross (January 1 1858 - July 5, 1949) was a Canadian journalist and newspaper publisher. He was born in Montreal, the son of Christina Chalmers Dansken and Montreal accountant Philip Simpson Ross (1827-1907) who was the founder of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec and a member of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Philip Dansken Ross studied at McGill University and Queen's University. He joined the staff at the Montreal Star in 1880, …

John Wilson McConnell (July 1, 1877 - November 6, 1963) was an Anglo-Quebecer businessman, newspaper publisher, humanitarian, and the most significant philanthropist in the history of the Province of Quebec, Canada.

Pierre Karl Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Media Inc. and the principal shareholder of parent company Quebecor Inc. He was educated in Montreal and Paris. He holds a degree in philosophy from Université du Québec à Montréal and a law degree from Université de Montréal. He was called to the Québec Bar in 1988. Mr. Péladeau is the son of the Quebecor founder Pierre Péladeau and joined his father’s management team at an early age.

Sara Anne McLagan (1855-1924) was the first Canadian woman newspaper editor. She was born near Belfast, but later came to Canada when her father when she was 3. Her father, Sergeant John C. Maclure, came to New Westminster in 1858 with the Royal Engineers. Her father also taught her telegraphy. At the age of 12, when a major forest fire threatened their Matsqui home, Sara tapped a message through to New Westminster to call for help.

Robert Aubie was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick in 1945 and traces his Acadian roots back to Port Royal in the 1700s. He moved to Ontario and graduated from Teacher's College in 1964 and became a Teacher, Vice-Principal and Principal in the Catholic School System in North Bay. He was nominated and received the Marshal McLuchlan Distinguished Teacher Award in 1987 for outstanding contribution in the Communication Sciences.

William Henry "Bill" Wright was a Canadian prospector who discovered the Kirkland Lake Break, which hosted seven gold-producing mines. He used the proceeds from his gold finds to launch a national newspaper in Canada, "The Globe and Mail".

Pierre Péladeau was a Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centered in the province of Quebec. Péladeau was born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal) in 1925. He completed a degree from the Université de Montréal, and in 1950 completed a law degree at McGill University. He founded Quebecor from a small group of weekly entertainment papers and French-language editions of American tabloids.

Andrew Burchill Lynch was co-founder and publisher of "Monday Magazine", a left-wing alternative weekly newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. From the late 1970s to mid-1980s Lynch operated "Monday Magazine" alongside co-founders Gene Miller and George Heffelfinger. When Miller sold his one-third interest in the publication in 1988, Lynch and Heffelfinger continued on as partners.