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Barclays top list of UK’s richest newspaper owners

By Press Gazette

The owners of Telegraph Media Group are Britain’s richest newspaper proprietors, according The Sunday Times Rich List 2012.

The 77-year-old twin brothers Sir David and Sir Fredrick Barclay – who also own the Ritz hotel, in London and the Littlewoods mail order business – top the list with an estimated £2.25bn fortune, up from £2.2bn in 2011.

Second on the list is Express Newspapers publisher Richard Desmond with an estimated wealth of £1bn, followed by Associated Newspapers owners Viscount Rothermere and family with £760m.

Regional newspaper publisher Sir Ray Tindle is 16th on the list of the richest people in publishing and advertising with an estimated wealth of £125m, down from £145m in 2011.

London-based Cristina Stenbeck, who was born and raised in New York, is the wealthiest woman among Britain’s richest publishers with a £369m fortune.

After the death of her father in 2002 she became steward of the family’s interests at the Swedish-based Investment AB Kinnevik media and telecoms group – best known for its stable of Metro free newspapers (which doesn’t include UK Metro).

The Sunday Times’ Rich List 2012 for publishing and advertising:

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  • Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay: £2,250m
  • Richard Desmond: £1,000m
  • Viscount Rothermere and family: £760m
  • The Thomson family: £700m
  • Paddy McNally: £515m
  • Viscount Cowdray and the Pearson family: £500m
  • Felix Dennis: £500m
  • Cristina Stenbeck: £369m
  • Mark Getty and family: £330m
  • Mike Danson: £310m
  • Lord Iliffe and family: £266m
  • Sir Martin Sorrell: £174m
  • Mike Luckwell: £135m
  • Philip and Patricia Brown: £132m
  • Lord and Charles Saatchi: £130m
  • Sir Ray Tindle: £125m
  • Neil Hutchinson: £123m
  • Nick Forman Hardy and family: £102m
  • Alan Parker: £95m

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