noun
1. the proprietor of a newspaper
• Syn: ↑publisher
• Hypernyms: ↑owner, ↑proprietor
• Hyponyms: ↑press lord
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Beaverbrook, ↑1st Baron Beaverbrook, ↑William Maxwell Aitken, ↑Harmsworth, ↑Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, ↑Viscount Northcliffe, ↑Harris, ↑Benjamin Harris, ↑Hearst, ↑William Randolph Hearst, ↑Pulitzer, ↑Joseph Pulitzer, ↑Scripps, ↑James Edmund Scripps, ↑Edward Wyllis Scripps
2. a business firm that publishes newspapers
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Murdoch owns many newspapers
• Hypernyms: ↑publisher, ↑publishing house, ↑publishing firm, ↑publishing company
Useful english dictionary. 2012.