Conrad Black
Summary
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC(Can.), OC, KCSG (born 25 August 1944) is a historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world. He is currently incarcerated at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida, USA. Before the regulatory investigation that led to his conviction, Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc. Through affiliates, the company published major newspapers including The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun Times (USA), Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America. Conrad Black was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a wealthy family originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Hunt to MST: 'I am not the industry and don't speak for the industry'
I reported last week that the Media Standards Trust had written to Lord Hunt (and Lord Black) to complain that there is a "lack of transparency" about the way the newspaper industry is going about the task of creating a new press regulator.
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Radler, Black's old partner, makes a newspaper comeback
Conrad Black's former partner David Radler finds himself running one of Canada's oldest newspapers following the surprise departure of its publisher.
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What's to stop regional publishers walking away from press regulation?
Let me intrude into my own privacy by allowing you to eavesdrop on my conversation with a journalist friend, whose anonymity I must respect. So let's call him DA for Devil's Advocate.
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Peers pass low-cost arbitration law for victims of press defamation
Lords rebellion means key part of Leveson proposals will be enacted and report cannot now be kicked into the long grass.
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Conrad Black lands TV talk-show job in Canada
But some might say Black has just found himself a gullible Canadian fool in Moses Znaimer.
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Conrad Black to host TV talk show
Conrad Black is to become a TV talk show host. Well, co-host. The disgraced media tycoon has been signed up as one of the presenters of a weekly Canadian television show.
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Fleet Street summit to discuss 'Leveson compliant' regulator
Lord Hunt of PCC takes driving seat for newspaper and magazines' response to calls for a Leveson law.
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Leveson report: Fleet Street left squabbling over way forward
Leveson statutory battle may have been won by newspapers but they now face confused fight over regulation.
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Papers' PR adviser on Leveson should be a bundle of fun | Media Monkey
Meet Ed Staite, the former Tory communications adviser who has just popped up to help the newspaper industry shape a response to the Leveson report. He has been hired to handle PR for the Free Speech Network, the newspaper lobby group, largely fashioned around the positions of Paul Dacre and Lord Black, executive director of Telegraph Media Group and chairman of the Press Complaints Commission funding body, Pressbof.
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Media charity says press regulation proposals do not go far enough
The Media Standards Trust claims plan put forward by Lord Black would not provide independence from the industry.
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