press magnate

Similarly, a newspaper owned by a forceful press magnate may be under heavy pressure to adopt a certain political line in its columns.

Like so many other newspaper owners, the Cadburys had been businessmen first and press magnates later - through involvement with party politics.

The new press magnate mixed in the highest circles, obtaining the Légion d'honneur, but also with dubious politicians.

However, in today's rapidly shrinking world, the European Union cannot ignore its responsibilities and its special position free from the power of one or two powerful press magnates.

In 1980, James Goldsmith, the press magnate, hired Mr. Hall as the "good life correspondent" for Now, a short-lived weekly magazine.

"Citizen Kane," released in 1941, incurred the wrath of a powerful press magnate with its barely disguised portrait of William Randolph Hearst.

Pommer was called back by the new management of Ufa (1927) that had been taken over by the right-wing press magnate Alfred Hugenberg.

In 1961 The Bulletin was sold to the press magnate Sir Frank Packer, who installed Donald Horne as editor.

"This beats Maxwell," he said, referring to the previous owner, the British press magnate Robert Maxwell, "and it beats the uncertainty of the past three years."

"The Beast stands for strong, mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," says the press magnate, Lord Copper, in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop .

Maurice Bunau-Varilla (1856 - 1 August 1944) was a French press magnate, and proprietor of the newspaper Le Matin.

At the same time, Allom was working on St Donat's Castle in Wales for press magnate William Randolph Hearst.

"It is not just a problem for Jews," said Vladimir Gusinsky, a press magnate and a prominent Jewish leader who went to inspect the damage at Marina Roscha.

The French press magnate Robert Hersant and the Italian television producer Silvio Berlusconi have won the franchise to run France's private television Channel Five.

In mid-1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, portraying the life of a press magnate (played by Welles) who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man.

It depicts Louis-François Bertin, a writer, art collector, press magnate as director of the pro-royalist Journal des débats, and friend and patron of the artist.

The writer of the film, Bruce Feirstein, has stated that Carver was actually inspired by British press magnate Robert Maxwell, who was one of Murdoch's rivals.

Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 - 12 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician and press magnate.

In Hungary, foreign press magnates have already bought up shares in several major dailies, but there is some uncertainty about how many Hungarian newspapers will survive the coming competition over readers and advertisers.

Mr Berlusconi, who is both Prime Minister and one of the largest Italian press magnates, is, in himself, almost a caricature of this stranglehold exercised by big business over the media.

Her father, Alfred Roberts (disconcertingly we last saw Iain Glen, who plays him, in Downton Abbey as press magnate Sir Richard Carlisle), is her hero.

Bogart had formed a new production company and had plans for a new film Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., in which he would play a general and Bacall a press magnate.

She had written to the British, Professor Mathai said, because the British press magnate, Robert Maxwell, was joint owner with the ruling party of the Kenya Times Media Trust.

Some Bulgarian journalists have said that Robert Maxwell, the British press magnate who died in December, had financial interests in some of the Bulgarian companies suspected of involvement in money laundering.