- Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi "Der Stürmer" newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 "Der Giftpilz" ("The Poison Mushroom"), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, … - Marcel Boussac
Marcel Boussac was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history. Born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, Boussac made a fortune in textile manufacturing. In 1919 he acquired the Château de Mivoisin, a 36 square kilometre property located 1½ hours south of Paris in Dammarie-sur-Loing, Loiret. - Conrad Black
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. - C. P. Scott
Charles Prestwich Scott (26 October 1846 - 1 January 1932) was a British journalist, publisher and politician. Born in Bath, Somerset, England, he was the editor of the "Manchester Guardian" from 1872 until 1929 and its owner from 1907 until his death. He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament and pursued a progressive liberal agenda in the pages of the newspaper. Scott was connected to the "Manchester Guardian" from birth. - Reinhard Mohn
Reinhard Mohn. Retired from media conglomerate Bertelsmann which his family owns. He received an honorary doctor from the University of Münster. Founder of the Círculo de Lectores (Reading Club) in Spain in 1962. He was awarded Premio Príncipe de Asturias in Communication and Humanities in 1998. He was the founder of the Bertelsmann Foundation in 1977. Reinhard Mohn is an honorary member of the Club of Rome. - Nikos Sampson
Nikos Sampson was the "de facto" dictator of Cyprus installed by the coup d'état that overthrew President Makarios in 1974. Sampson was well known as an extreme Greek nationalist and member of EOKA-B, which sought Enosis (Union) of the island of Cyprus with Greece. He remained dictator for only eight days. - John Bayne MacLean
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. - Narendra Mohan
Narendra Mohan was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper "Dainik Jagran". The late Narendra Mohan was renowned for his dedicated journalism and deep simplicity and sincerity and was champion in steering the business to its unsurpassable position today — 30 editions, a massive 19-odd million readers, … - David Astor
Francis David Langhorne Astor CH (March 5, 1912, London - December 7, 2001, London) was a newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Astor family. He was the third child of American-born parents, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952) and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964). The product of an immensely wealthy business dynasty, and raised in the grandeur of a great country estate where the political and intellectual elite of the time gathered, … - Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. - Cino del Duca
Cino Del Duca (July 25, 1899 - May 24, 1967) was an Italian-born businessman film producer and philanthropist who moved to France in 1923 where he made a fortune in the French publishing business. - Robert Hersant
Robert Hersant (January 30, 1920 - April 21 1996) was a French newspaper magnate with right-wing political views. Robert Hersant founded the rightist political party "Jeune Front" in 1940. He was sentenced in 1947 to 10 years of national indignity for collaboration with Nazi Germany. In 1952, however, he benefited from the general amnesty. Meanwhile, in 1950, he started "L'Auto-Journal", which met success due to the increasing popularity of automobiles. - John Bassett
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". - Hugh Graham 1st Baron Atholstan
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". - Gomer Berry 1st Viscount Kemsley
James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley GBE (May 7, 1883 - February 6, 1968) was a Welsh newspaper publisher. Sir Gomer Berry was the third of three brothers from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He originally co-owned "The Daily Telegraph" with his second brother William and Baron Burnham. He founded "Kemsley Newspapers", which owned "The Sunday Times", "The Daily Sketch" and "The Sunday Graphic" amongst its titles. - Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. - Joseph E. Atkinson
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. - Philip Dansken Ross
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, … - Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian - British business tycoon and politician. - Hugh Lawson 6th Baron Burnham
Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham (August 15, 1931 - January 1, 2005) was a successful executive with "The Daily Telegraph", prior to its takeover by Conrad Black in 1986, and later led a successful career in the House of Lords. - Axel Springer
Axel Springer, was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company. Springer was born as Axel Cäsar Springer in Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher. Springer's career started with the foundation of "Axel Springer GmbH" in Hamburg in 1947. He published the "Hamburger Abendblatt" newspaper, followed by some magazines, including the popular radio and TV programme magazine "Hör zu". - Max Bell
George Maxwell "Max" Bell (13 October 1912 - 19 July 1972) was a Canadian newspaper publisher. - Philippe Amaury
Philippe Amaury was a French publishing tycoon and entrepreneur who dominated the French media world. Until today, Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA), the company he fouded, publishes "le Parisien, "a local newspaper in greater Paris, as well as the national journal "Aujourd'hui". In partnership with SNC L'Equipe, the group also publishes the sports journals "l'Équipe", "l'Équipe Magazine", … - William Berry 1st Viscount Camrose
Sir William Ewart Berry (23 June 1879 - 15 June 1954), the second of three brothers born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, started his working life as a journalist, became editor-in-chief of "The Daily Telegraph" in 1928, and as a newspaper publisher founded a long-running press dynasty. William Berry made his fortune with the publication of the World War I magazine "The War Illustrated", which at its peak had a circulation of 750,000. - Izzy Asper
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. - Tara Singh Hayer
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, … - John Jacob Astor 1st Baron Astor of Hever
Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (May 20, 1886-July 19, 1971), was a military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. Note: Standard genealogies of the Astor family consider this man to also be known as John Jacob Astor V. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894). - Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Lord Northcliffe, for the development of the London "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror". He was a pioneer of popular journalism. - Waldorf Astor 2nd Viscount Astor
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (19 May 1879 - 30 September 1952) was a businessman and politician and a member of the prominent Astor family. Born in New York City in the United States, he was the son of the extremely wealthy William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919) (later 1st Viscount Astor), and Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894). He grew up in New York City but when he was 12 the family moved to England where he received an education at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. - Alfred Harmsworth 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July1865 - 14 August1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming (some say demeaning) them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market. During his lifetime, he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion. - Roy Thomson 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
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. - James G. Fulton
James Grove Fulton (March 1, 1903-October 6, 1971) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. - Pierre Péladeau
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. - Eddy Shah
Eddy Shah (also Eddie Shah) is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper "Today" and of the extremely short-lived tabloid "The Post", and current owner of the Messenger Group. He is also the author of several novels: "The Lucy Ghosts" (1991), "Ring of Red Roses" (1992), "Manchester Blue" (1993), and "Fallen Angels" (1994). - Val McCalla
Val McCalla (born October 3, 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica; died August 22, 2002 in Seaford, East Sussex) is best known as the founder of "The Voice", a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community. He founded it in 1982 as a voice for the British African-Caribbean community and black Briton people. He was honored as a pioneering published for the community, but also faced critics who deemed him sensationalistic. - Sir Arthur Arthur Pearson 1st Baronet
Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 February 1866 - 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, most noted for founding the "Daily Express". - O. Roy Chalk
Oscar Roy Chalk (b. 7 June 1907 in London; d. 1 December 1995) was a New York financier who owned DC Transit, Trans Caribbean Airways, the Chalk Emerald, and the New York Spanish-language newspapers "El Diario de Nueva York" and "La Prensa", merging them into "El Diario La Prensa". - Harry Stevenson Southam
Harry Stevenson Southam (1875-1954) was a Canadian publisher of "The Ottawa Citizen" and Chancellor of Carleton College from 1952 to 1954. He was Chairman and member of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada from 1929 to 1953 - Kenneth Thomson 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
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. - Esmond Harmsworth 2nd Viscount Rothermere
Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 - 12 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician and press magnate. Harmsworth's father, Harold Sydney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, had been the financial wizard behind the creation of the "Daily Mail" in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. Esmond was educated at Eton College and commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery.
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