Jock Whitney
Publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, president of the Museum of Modern Art
AG Sulzberger
Media executive, chairman of the New York Times company since 2020
Åke Bonnier
Media executive, co-owner of the Bonnier Group (175 companies in many countries)
bonnier.com
Amos Hostetter, Jr. living
Anne Sweeney living
chairwoman & CEO at FX Networks (21st Century Fox), media executive at Disney, 21st Century Fox, Nickelodeon (Viacom), former co-chair of Disney Media Networks, president of the Disney Channel & ABC TV Studios from 1996-2014, director at Netflix since 2015
1957- (68)
ir.netflix.net
Ari Emanuel living
Superagent, businessman, talent agent, media executive, founder and CEO of Endeavor (William Morris Endeavor, WME-IMG) which also owns the UFC, he was immortalized by a character based on him in the hit TV series Entourage (played by Jeremy Piven)
1961- (64)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Media mogul, New York Times publisher from 1992-1997, chairman of the New York Times company from 1997-2020
Aviv Nevo
Venture capitalist, financier, owner of NV Investments, investor, major shareholder in CNN (via TimeWarner, News Corp, stakeholder in eBay, Microsoft, Time Warner, The Weinstein Company
Axel Springer
Bild Zeitung news publisher, founder of Axel Springer the largest in Europe, media mogul
1912-1985 (73)
Bela Bajaria
Chief Content Officer at Netflix, media executive, director at Coca-Cola
coca-colacompany.com
Bob Iger living
media executive, dealmaker, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney since 2005, Disney+ businessman, director at Genies, bestselling author of The Ride of a Lifetime
1951- (74)
Brad Greenspan
Founder, chairman and CEO of eUniverse (Intermix Media) owned by News Corporation.
Brian Roberts living
Billionaire, chairman and CEO of Comcast Spectacor, sports team owner of the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) since 1996
1959- (66)
Carl-Johan Bonnier
Media executive, President and CEO of Bonnierföretagen (Bonnier Group) since 1992, and prior an EVP of Bonnier from 1987-1992, and Semic International in 1978-1983
bonnier.com
C.D. Jackson
Forbes publisher, managing director at Time-Life International in 1945, bought the Zipruter film
1902-1964 (62)
snaccooperative.org
Conrad Black
Newspaper Baron convicted of fraud for Hollinger, hosted the Bilderbergers
Dagmar Dolby living
Daniel Ek living
Billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Spotify music streaming service
1983- (42)
David Brock
Founder of MediaMatters, Correct the Record, censorship, fake news and propaganda, political commentator, politics
David Geffen living
co-founder of DreamWorks Records, DGC Records, Asylum Records, founder of Geffen Records, record producer, film producer
1943- (82)
David Thomson living
Billionaire heir, media mogul, founder of Woodbridge, British peerage, acquired Reuters to make Thomson Reuters, sports team owner, co-owner of the Winnipeg Jets, Canada Life Centre hockey arena for the Jets, investor at Osmington Capital Partners, commercial real estate investor at Osmington Gerofsky Development Corp (OGDC)
1957- (68)
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group (UMG) from MCA Records which bought Polygram Entertainment, chairman of Global Thermostat, Endeavor Global, co-founder and managing director of Accretive LLC, former chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group (WMG) which sold to Access Industries, director at Everspring, Insureon, fuboTV
accretivellc.com
Friede Springer living
Billionaire heiress, publisher, owner of Bild (Axel Springer SE), widow of Axel Springer
1942- (83)
Gavin Astor
Publisher, soldier, military veteran, his father was John Jacob Astor V
1918-1984 (66)
George Gallup
Social scientist, pioneer in surveys and scientific polling with Gallup polls, statistician, politician, survey sampling techniques for measuring public opinion
Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco
Billionaire, printing, publishing, founder and chairman of Grupo Impresa in 1978, chairman of Grupo Mexico
Hank Greenspun
Publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, real estate developer in the Las Vegas Valley
Ian Livingston
CEO of BT Group, member of the UK House of Lords, former UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment
Jeff Zucker living
Chairman and President at CNN 2013-2022, oversight of CNN International, HLN, CNN Digital, former CEO at NBCUniversal
1965- (60)
Jia Yueting living
Jim Pattison
Billionaire, signs, billboards, outdoor advertising, founder of the Jim Pattison Group, co-owner of Overwaitea Foods retail chain of supermarkets and grocery stores
Jimmy Lai
Billionaire activist, media tycoon, entrepreneur, founder of Apple Daily News
John Elkann living
CEO of Exor, media executive, owner of The Economist, head of IFIL, billionaire heir of Agnelli family dynasty, grandson of Gianni Agnelli
1976- (49)
Jonas Bonnier
Media executive, co-owner of the Bonnier Group (175 companies in many countries)
bonnier.com
Joseph Medill
Founded the Chicago Tribune, grandfather of Joseph Patterson
Ken Thomson
British peerage, billionaire publicist, chairman of The TImes & Sunday Times and sold to Fox News Corp (Rupert Murdoch), reporter, journalist at the Timmins Daily Press, Cambridge Reporter( Galt Reporter), media mogul who created what became Thomson Reuters, the largest business and commerical news outlet in the world, art collector of Kreigoff
1923-2006 (83)
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg
Billionaire, founder and CEO of CTS Eventim, live entertainment events & ticketing services
Krit Ratanarak living
Lachlan Murdoch living
Billionaire heir, executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, co-chairman of News Corp (FOX News), founder of Illyria investments
1971- (54)
foxcorporation.com
Loretta Robinson living
Marjorie Scardino living
CEO of Pearson (book publishers) from 1997-2012, educator, journalist, director at Nokia Networks
1947- (78)
Mark Thompson
Media executive, CEO of New York Times, director-general at BBC Broadcasting from 2004-2012, chairman of Ancestry.com
bbc.com
Mary Louise Curtis
The only daughter of Cyrus Curtis newspaper magnate, created the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Bok Tower Gardens in Florida
Mathias Döpfner living
TV presenter, journalist, 22% owner and CEO of Axel Springer SE
1963- (62)
Maurice Starr living
Talent manager aka The General, he managed the New Kids on the Block (boy band), musician, songwriter, record producer, music producer
1953- (72)
Melanie Dawes living
CEO of Ofcom since 2020, economist, civil servant, permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Housing, HM Treasury, HM Revenue an Customs
1966- (59)
Michael Bloomberg living
Billionaire entrepreneur, greentech investor, climate change, founder of Bloomberg L.P. software for trading stocks at computer terminals, politician, 108th mayor of New York City (NYC), philanthropist
1942- (83)
bloomberg.org
Michael Eisner
Billionaire, media executive at ABC News, chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company from 1984-2005
Michael Levy living
Music executive, founder of Magnet Records (sold to Warner Music) in 1988 for £10 million
1944- (81)
Michelle L. Swing
Media executive, businesswoman, suspected daughter of Anthony Warner (of the Nashville Christmas RV bombing), she was gifted a house in a quit claim and she re-gifted it to the mother
Mohammed Ibrahim living
Neal Mohan living
CEO of YouTube since 2023
1973- (52)
blog.youtube
Nick Clegg living
Media executive, president for global affairs at Meta Platforms (Facebook) since 2022, former EVP of communications at Facebook from 2018-2022, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, author of How to Stop Brexit, Politics Between the Extremes
1967- (58)
about.facebook.com
Patrick Whitesell living
Talent agent, executive chairman of Endeavor (William Morris Endeavor, WME-IMG)
1965- (60)
Pierre Karl Péladeau living
Ricardo Salinas Pliego living
Billionaire businessman, media executive, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas (Azteca TV) telecommunications
1955- (70)
Roger Ailes
CEO of Fox News until 2016, Fox Television, media consultant
1940-2017 (77)
Roy Thomson
British newspaper media mogul of Fleet Street in London England, owner of The Scotsman, author of After I Was Sixty
1894-1976 (82)
Rupert Murdoch living
Newspapers, media mogul, chairman of News Corp (Fox News, News UK, The Sun, The Times), billionaire, his father Keith Murdoch started News Corporation
1931- (94)
Si Newhouse
Billionaire, chairman of Condé Nast Publications (The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest)
Sumner Redstone
Media mogul, author of A Passion to Win, owner of National Amusements theatres, and majority shareholder of CBS, Viacom (MTV, BET, Comedy Central, etc)
1923-2020 (97)
Susan Silver
Talent agent, music manager for Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, restauranteur, co-owner of The Crocodile
Teddy Forstmann
Billionaire financier, co-founder of Forstmann Little & Company, CEO of IMG Entertainment
-2011
Terry Davis
Chairman of Seven Group (Seven West Media), former CEO of Coca-Cola Amatil
Thornton Bradshaw
chairman of NBC, president of Atlantic Refining Co. (Atlantic Richfield) in 1964, professor at Harvard University until 1952, MI6 intelligence officer with NATO, director at RCA, Arco, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Tony Vinciquerra living
chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) from 2017-2025, media executive, former president & CEO of Fox Networks, director at Qualcomm
1954- (71)
sonypictures.com
Tsuneo Kita living
Chairman and CEO of Nikkei Japan since 2007, editor of the Financial Times
1946- (79)
Vincent McMahon living
Waldorf Astor
Politician, media executive, owner of newspapers
1879-1952 (73)
Walter Annenberg
Billionaire news magnate, businessman, news publisher for the Inquirer, Ambassador the United Kingdom, investor, founded Annenberg Foundation with his wife Leonore Annenberg
Walter Legge
Music producer for EMI, founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945
William Hearst III
Billionaire, media empire, chairman of Hearst magazines
hearst.com
William Randolph Hearst
Businessman, newspaper publisher, founder of Hearst Communications, politician
William S. Paley
Businessman, media executive, founder, president & CEO of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Yvonne Bauer living
billionaire heiress, owner of Bauer Media, news media magnate founded by her family in 1875
1977- (48)