Earlier this year, Black completed the sale of the last of his Canadian newspapers with the offloading of his remaining 50% stake in Canada's National Post to CanWest Global Communications, just two years after he launched the conservative national daily.
Black, chairman of Daily Telegraph publisher Hollinger International, sold the other half of the Toronto-based daily to CanWest late last year when he offloaded the bulk of his Canadian publishing empire in a deal reportedly worth £1.45bn.
Since the Canadian sell-off, speculation has been rife that he would then exit the UK newspaper market and sell the UK's biggest-selling broadsheet newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.
Express Newspaper owner Richard Desmond, according to a Financial Times report, asked Black, who was recently knighted and made Lord, whether he would sell. At the Daily Mail-owning Associated, Lord Rothermere is also said to have had talks.
Similar reports emerged earlier this year and they were denied, and a Hollinger spokesman has again denied the latest reports.
Other than the Telegraph group in the UK, Hollinger owns the Chicago Sun Times in the US and The Jerusalem Post.
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