Barbro Osher (born May 21,1940 in Stockholm) is the Swedish Consul General in San Francisco and a well-known philanthropist, chairman of the Bernard Osher Foundation and of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Together with her husband Bernard Osher she gave the third largest contribution to charity in 2006, according to the online magazine Slate. Barbro Osher is also the owner and publisher of Vestkusten, a Swedish-American newspaper.

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.

Veton Surroi (born July 17, 1961) is a popular Kosovar Albanian publicist and politician. Surroi is the founder and leader of the ORA reformist political party, and is a member of Kosovo parliament since 2004. Veton Surroi in 1997 established one of the biggest Kosovar Albanian daily newspapers "Koha Ditore" and was the editor-in-chief for a number of years before deciding to enter Kosovar politics.

Sir Anthony "Tony" O'Reilly (born 7 May 1936) is a Dublin born billionaire who holds both British and Irish nationality. He is best known through his chairmanship of the Dublin-based Independent News & Media Group (INM) and as former CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company, but was also previously an international rugby union player.

Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to "Forbes" magazine, as of 2006 he was the 56th richest person in the world. Dassault is the son of Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Since the elder Dassault's death, he has continued developing the company, with the help of current CEO Charles Edelstenne. Serge Dassault studied at the École polytechnique and Supaéro.

Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21 1949, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Neil made his name at "The Sunday Times" where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of "The Business" and (from 2005) "The Spectator". Press Holdings sold "The Scotsman" in December 2005, ending Neil's relationship with the newspaper.

Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December, 1951) is a British publisher, current owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell plc. Express Newspapers publishes the "Daily Express", "Sunday Express", "Daily Star Sunday" and "Daily Star". Northern and Shell was notorious for publishing dozens of pornographic titles, such as "Big Ones", "Skinny and Wriggly", "Forum", …

David Sullivan is a Welsh-born pornography magnate, newspaper proprietor and horseracer. He owns the "Daily Sport" and "Sunday Sport" newspapers. He owns a horse, David Junior (named after Sullivan's namesake son), trained Brian Meehan; the horse has participated in many Group 1 races around the world. David Junior, the horse, is now a top Sire in Japan. Sullivan, Sr. also has a horse in training that might feature in the 2007 flat racing season.

Dan Voiculescu is a politician and businessman. He is the founder and president of the Romanian Humanist Party, now the Conservative Party (PC). He previously owned, but legally turned over to his daughter, the Intact media group, …

Arcadi Alexandrovich Gaydamak (also spelled Arkadi Gaydamak, Russian: Аркадий Александрович Гайдамак, Hebrew: ארקדי גאידמק) (born 1952 in Ukraine, USSR) is a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman, and member of the wealthy Gaydamak family. Gaydamak holds French and Israeli passports in addition to diplomatic Canadian and Angola passports.

Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga is a Cameroonian publisher of the newspaper "L'Anecdote". Belinga gained notoriety in March 2006 when a Cameroon court jailed him for four months for defaming Gregoire Owona, a government minister named in a list of 50 presumed homosexuals in Cameroon.

Jugnu Mohsin is a Pakistani publisher and editor of the Lahore-based "The Friday Times", Pakistan's first English-language independent newsweekly.

Alexander Smolensky is the founder and president of one of the largest Russian banks, "Stolichny Bank" (also known as SBS/AGRO), which controls the newspapers "Kommersant" and "Novaya Gazeta". Mr. Smolensky began his business activities on the black market of the so-called "shadow economy".

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.

Vincent Bolloré is a French industrialist, corporate raider and businessman. He heads the family investment group Bolloré and is ranked 451st richest person in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated fortune of US$1.7 billion. He is married, with 4 children.

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.

Hisham Hafiz or Hashim Ali Hafiz (born 28 April, 1931 - 26 February, 2006 was a Saudi Arabian newspaper publisher and author. He is best known for co-founding the "Arab News" and his Saudi Research and Publishing Company published 16 newspapers and magazines at the time of his death. He has also written a number of collections of poetry and nonfiction.

Gebran Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese politician and the former editor and publisher of the mass circulation An-Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon. Tueni was a third generation journalist. An-Nahar was established by his grandfather, also named Gebran Tueni, in 1933. His father, Ghassan Tueni, ran the newspaper for decades. Tueni had degrees in journalism, international relations and management from French universities.

Emil Kyulev (June 5, 1957 – October 26, 2005) was a Bulgarian banker, owner of DZI bank. Kyulev was the President of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Swimming Federation. Kyulev was a former elite swimmer and also a member of the BUL Junior’s National team excelling in breaststroke. As a banker, he was one of the richest men in Bulgaria and throughout the Balkans. His main business interests were in the frame of banking, insurance and tourism.

Emilio Fernando Azcárraga Jean or Emilio Azcárrga III is a Mexican businessman and the son of Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and his third wife, Nadine Jean a French citizen. He became the CEO of Grupo Televisa at the age of 29, after the death of his father. He is one of the richest businesspersons in Latin America with a fortune estimated at 1.7 billion dollars according to Forbes. He is also a Board Member of Teléfonos de Mexico, Univision and Banamex.

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".

Carlos Ahumada Kurtz is a Mexican businessman owner of Grupo Quart, a newspaper ("El Independiente") and two football clubs (Santos Laguna and León) in Mexico who was convicted for corruption-related crimes in Mexico City in 2004. Ahumada Kurtz moved to Mexico at the age of 11 on October 6, 1975 with his mother and brother Pablo and in 1991 acquired Mexican citizenship.

Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez, also known as Jesús de Polanco is a businessman from Spain who has built a considerable media empire. In 2005, he was ranked at number 210 in "Forbes" World's Richest People list, and was number 258 in the 2006. He has been estimated to own 64% of the Prisa group, a conglomerate which includes El País, the most important newspaper in the country; the radio channel Cadena SER; the TV channel Cuatro (TV), …

Edouard Etienne Alphonse de Rothschild is a businessman and part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) and Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927-1996). Edouard de Rothschild studied law in France and in 1985 graduated with an M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University. In 1981 he married Mathilde Alexe Marie Christiane Coche de la Ferté (b.1952).

Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into British and American media, and in recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, …

Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born December 3, 1967) succeeded as his father as the 4th Viscount Rothermere in 1998. He had previously been known as "The Honourable Jonathan Harmsworth". He held various positions in Associated Newspapers and was Managing Director of the "Evening Standard" when the sudden death of his father Vere Harmsworth, …