That year, it began a process of shrinking the company, selling many of its small papers to the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, who formed Liberty Group Publishing. It created the National Post from the Financial Post in 1998. Hollinger's non-American properties, which included The Daily Telegraph and The Jerusalem Post, were added to the company in 1996, and its Canadian papers in 1997.

It changed its name to Hollinger International in 1994. At the time, it was the fifteenth-largest U.S. In February 1994, it acquired the Chicago Sun-Times, holding an initial public offering (IPO) to fund the acquisition. It focused on newspapers, mostly in smaller markets. Sun-Times Media Group was founded in 1986 under the name American Publishing Company, as a holding company for Hollinger Inc.'s American properties. Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher. For the 19th-century 'American Publishing Company', see Mark Twain.

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