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The financially troubled `Daily Telegraph' after weeks of negotiations, published a brief front-page story confirming that control of the paper and its sister publication `The Sunday Telegraph' had passed into the hands of Toronto millionaire Conrad Black, 41.

Advises that Thomson Newspapers Corp. put several of its daily papers in Canada up for sale as part of a restructuring plan. Aim of Dick Harrington, president and CEO of Thomson, to transform the company into a marketing and communications company; Names of newspapers on the block.

Focuses on competition between `Daily Gleaner' and Henley Publishing Ltd. Creation of 'Northside News' by David Henley; Opinion that the `Daily Gleaner' wants to put Henley out of business; Allegations that the `Daily Gleaner' published personal stories regarding Henley's family.

A special report looks at Canada's newspaper wars over readers, advertisers, and revenue. Clashes between newspapers in various Canadian cities over readership and markets; Famous newspaper rivalries. INSET: The little paper that grew..

The changes have been anything but conservative at Canada's unabashedly right-wing national daily. After months of speculation that CanWest Global Communications Corp. was set to fold its perennially money-losing National Post, the paper was granted a reprieve. Ken Whyte, editor-in-chief, and Martin Newland, his deputy--the duo behind the Post's cheeky mixture of agenda-driven news, pointed commentary and unapologetic fluff, have left to pursue unspecified "opportunities." Leonard Asper, CanWest chief executive, announced a three-year plan to make the paper profitable and appointed his older brother David to oversee the flagship. Matthew Fraser, a media commentator and journalism professor with no previous management experience, was named editor-in-chief. More and more Post reporters have been showing up on TV screens, and the content of the chain's daily papers across the country has become increasingly standardized--a trend that seems sure to intensify as the company struggles to get out from under a $3.6-billion debt load.

The article profiles David Black, the owner and publisher of a chain of newspapers. Central to the article is the information that Black concentrates on the purchase and production of small, local newspapers, in place of large, urban, mass-circulation papers. Also emphasized is the fact that Black's organization is thriving at a time when other news outlets are experiencing financial turmoil.

Discusses the outbreak of newspaper wars as of November 1998. Mention of the launch of a national paper by Conrad Black and the following hostile takeover for the `The Toronto Sun' empire by the paper; Mention of several publishers, including John Honderich of `The Star.'

Presents information on the plans of Canadian publisher Southam to launch a daily newspaper in 1998. Comments from Don Babick, President and Chief Operating Officer; Lack of hard information on the newspaper; Potential readers to receive little information until the paper is published; Key questions unanswered such as editorial tone, content and cost; Controversial nature of owner Conrad Black.

This article describes a labor dispute at Quebecor, a sprawling conglomerate of television, cable, Internet, bookstores, and newspapers. It is at "Le Journal de Quebec," where management has locked out 140 employees for refusing to accept changes in pay and working conditions. The employees have begun printing their own alternative paper.

Profiles Franklin David Radler, the longtime partner and hatchet man for Conrad Black. Newspapers that the two control; The phenomenal success that Black has had; The evolution of Radler from hatchet man to publisher; Papers that he is in charge of; His success with them; His expectations for 1997 and 1998; The role that Black's wife Barbara Amiel plays in Radler's publications.