Canadian-born Conrad Moffat Black (born 1944) gained fame as an international press baron whose newspapers' daily circulation of 4.5 million was a total surpassed only by Rupert Murdoch and the US Gannett chain. Born in 1944 to George Montegu Black,...

Rupert Murdoch never misses an opportunity to needle his competitors and this month was no exception. Two weeks ago, under the headline "Sunday Telegraph all-time low", Murdoch's Sunday Times boasted that "full-price" sales of Conrad Black's Sunday Telegraph had slumped to 429,000 and now...

THE LAY head of Britain's Jewish community has protested to Conrad Black, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, over an article in the Spectator magazine last month which claimed that Hollywood is run by a "Jewish cabal". The Spectator is owned by the Daily Telegraph...

Attorneys for Conrad Black assured jurors as his corporate fraud trial opened in March that the case involving the former media tycoon and British lord was not another Enron.It wasn't. But Enron turned out to be inextricably linked to his downfall.A federal court jury's convictions...

As chairman of the far-flung Hollinger newspaper empire, tall, silver-haired, magnificently tailored Conrad M. Black reigned supreme as one of the world's most powerful media moguls. His lifestyle included $60,000-plus birthday parties for his wife, dinners with the rich and famous and jaw-dropping renovations of...