Sentence examples for press tycoons from inspiring English sources

C1 Corporate Alliance Tested Conrad M. Black and F. David Radler of Hollinger International went from young Canadian entrepreneurs to globe-spanning press tycoons over the course of more than three decades.

There are exceptions the late Stephen Koss at Columbia comes to mind but for the most part men and women trained in the academic disciplines are baffled by a literary form where truth and accuracy come low on the list of priorities.William Randolph Hearst, like most successful press tycoons, was a businessman who detected and exploited a gap in the market.

The Quebec media landscape is becoming an increasingly strange mix of old-fashioned press tycoons and small town politics, with two very powerful families peddling two very different political agendas.

It was at Star TV, once owned by Mr. Murdoch, that she met the press tycoon.

Hearst Mansion, £103m, Beverly Hills The pink stucco former home of press tycoon William Randolph Hearst featured in the film The Godfather.

Russian prosecutors today abruptly dropped their high-profile criminal inquiry into Vladimir V. Gusinsky, the Russian press tycoon whose Media-Most empire has been among the Kremlin's sharpest critics.

Lord Camrose, the British press tycoon, bought the world rights to the unwritten "History" outright, and subsequently sold the book-publication rights to Cassell & Co., then headed by Sir Newman Flower.

PAGE 26 Hearst the Real Publisher "The Chief," David Nasaw's biography of William Randolph Hearst, shows the press tycoon (1863-1951) as a talented, inventive, surprisingly sympathetic news executive, bearing little resemblance to the hero of "Citizen Kane".

As the NTV television network, founded and partly owned by Vladimir V. Gusinsky, the Russian press tycoon, and his company, Media-Most, advanced talks abroad, it was searched at home today by federal prosecutors.

There is no doubt that various arms of the Russian government have heightened their scrutiny of potentially disruptive figures -- from Yabloko to the independent press tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky -- in ways that evoke unpleasant memories of Soviet repression.

A8 Russia Halts Inquiry of Mogul Prosecutors dropped their criminal inquiry into Vladimir V. Gusinsky, the Russian press tycoon whose Media-Most empire has been among the Kremlin's sharpest critics.