Both have expressed interest in owning The Times as a civic duty.

Astor was a classic non-interventionist proprietor, rumoured to own The Times but not actually to read it.

Don Hall, who has owned The Press and The Times in Mahopac for 41 years, said his two newspapers have a circulation of 10,000.

Under the proposed rules, the company, which owns The Times of London and other newspapers, would be freed to own broadcasters as well.

Rupert Murdoch owns the Times and is a major stakeholder in the New York Times.

The Seattle Times Company, while owning and operating the Times, also owns three other papers in Washington.

He also established a record as the longest serving editor in Bennett Coleman and Co. which owns the Times of India Group.

She was not a member of the Adler family that is related to the Sulzbergers who own The Times.

Ltd., which owns the Times of India and other large newspapers.

In Britain, it owns The Times and The Sunday Times of London.