Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former
newspaper publisher and author. He is a
non-affiliated life peer, and a
convicted felon in the United States for fraud. Black controlled
Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published
The Daily Telegraph (UK),
Chicago Sun Times (U.S.),
The Jerusalem Post (Israel),
National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before he was fired by the board of Hollinger in 2004.