Entertainment & Arts
Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest newspaper, offered to buy Sun Media Corp. for $486 million to counter a challenge from publisher Conrad Black’s new national daily.
Oct. 29, 1998
Business
Media Mogul Obtains Stake in Canadian Newspaper Chain: Conrad Black has acquired a 23% stake in Southam Inc., Canada’s largest newspaper chain, for about $207 million, the Canadian Press reported.
Nov. 9, 1992
Awards
Rupert Murdoch still believes in romance.
May 3, 2014
World & Nation
A merger of two of Canada’s biggest newspaper chains, announced Wednesday, will create a new media powerhouse that challenges press baron Conrad Black’s grip on the national newspaper market.
Dec. 10, 1998
Even a brutal year in the love department hasn’t shaken Rupert Murdoch’s belief in romance.
May 2, 2014
McGraw-Hill Cos., which publishes school textbooks and owns Business Week magazine, agreed to buy Torrance-based Frank Schaffer Publications from Canada’s Torstar Corp. for an undisclosed amount to add educational publishing.
May 18, 2001
Rupert Murdoch’s publishing company, News Corp., has completed its $416-million purchase of Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar Corp. of Canada.
Aug. 1, 2014
The cast of the new CBS action-comedy series “Due South” perches precariously in a canoe floating, incongruously, in a set built to represent a Chicago sewer tunnel.
Sept. 18, 1994
Greenspace
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Feb. 10, 2009
Books
While few Americans have heard of the publishing house, Mills & Boon is a household name in Britain--as familiar to women as brand names of lipsticks.
March 22, 1994