At the end of the war, provincial newspaper ownership took three forms.
With newspaper ownership increasingly concentrated in the hands of industrialists and financiers, there have been calls for antitrust laws.
In his early years of newspaper ownership Murdoch was an aggressive, micromanaging entrepreneur.
Legislative proposals to curb newspaper ownership emerged from that study, but did not become law.
"Her approach to newspaper ownership has always been to make sure the reader comes first and to invest in her people and her products."
"In nearly 30 years of newspaper ownership, we have rarely sold and never closed a daily newspaper."
It has led others to speculate more broadly about the allure of newspaper ownership, particularly to millionaires of anonymous wealth.
Now, newspaper ownership has been consolidated in the hands of powerful chains and groups.
Reducing newspaper ownership to what benefits shareholders is the sort of thing that has almost destroyed the Daily Mirror.
His first experience in newspaper ownership was with the Sherbrooke Daily Record, which he bought from his father.