- Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. (born May 16, 1955), formerly CEO of Seagram and vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, has been CEO of Warner Music since 2004. He is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, one of the most wealthy and influential Jewish families in Canada. The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr. - Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. - James M. Cox
James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 - July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. Cox was born in the tiny Butler County, Ohio village of Jacksonburg. Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher, reporter, owner and editor of several newspapers, and secretary to Congressman Paul J. Sorg. - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - Barry Diller
Since December 1992, beginning with QVC, Mr. Diller has served as chief executive for a number of predecessor companies engaged in media and interactivity prior to the formation of IAC. From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company in addition to Fox's motion picture operations. - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. - Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers is a billionaire media proprietor. She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and senior Democratic political identity. She owns and controls her father’s business interests, through Cox Enterprises. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, died on May 28, 2007. A generous financial supporter of the Democratic Party, … - Frank Packer
Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer (December 3, 1906-May 1, 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine television network. Frank Packer was the son of R.C. Packer who started the family's association with the media as a journalist in New South Wales. R.C. Packer became editor of the "Sunday Times" and was a founder of "Smith's Weekly" and the "Daily Guardian", … - Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. - Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC (17 December 1937 - 26 December 2005), son of Sir Frank Packer, was an Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon who owned the Nine Network. He was famous for his outspoken nature, wealth, expansive business empire and clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Commission. At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. - Artyom Borovik
Artyom Borovik was a prominent Russian journalist and media magnate. He was the son of a Soviet-era journalist, Genrikh Borovik, who worked for many years as a foreign correspondent in the U.S. Artyom Borovik was a pioneer of investigative journalism in the Soviet Union during the beginning of glasnost. He worked for the American CBS program "60 Minutes" during the 1990s, and began publishing his own monthly investigative newspaper "Top Secret", … - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Richard Desmond
Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December, 1951) is a British publisher, current owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell plc. Express Newspapers publishes the "Daily Express", "Sunday Express", "Daily Star Sunday" and "Daily Star". Northern and Shell was notorious for publishing dozens of pornographic titles, such as "Big Ones", "Skinny and Wriggly", "Forum", … - Serge Dassault
Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to "Forbes" magazine, as of 2006 he was the 56th richest person in the world. Dassault is the son of Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Since the elder Dassault's death, he has continued developing the company, with the help of current CEO Charles Edelstenne. Serge Dassault studied at the École polytechnique and Supaéro. - Barry Bingham Sr.
George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century. Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties — "The Courier-Journal" and "The Louisville Times" newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and Television. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. Robert Worth Bingham, using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, … - Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation. - John Kluge
John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is an entrepreneur who was born in Chemnitz, Germany, best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1937. - Red McCombs
The oldest of four children, his family moved in 1943 to Corpus Christi, Texas. He briefly attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where he played football (lineman and receiver) before serving in the Army in 1946 and 1947. After completing his Army stint, McCombs enrolled at The University of Texas, attending the business school and law school. While visiting a friend in Corpus Christi, he was convinced to try selling cars. - Barbara Cox Anthony
Barbara Cox Anthony was the second and youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic Governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox Enterprises. Her net worth was estimated at $12 billion, … - James Packer
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September, 1967) is an Australian businessman and Australia's richest man. Packer is the son of the late billionaire media mogul Kerry Packer and grandson of Frank Packer. James Packer is the Executive Chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL), which owns some stations of the Australian commercial television network Nine. He also inherited the family private company: Consolidated Press Holdings Pty Ltd, … - Generoso Pope Jr.
Generoso Paul "Gene" Pope, Jr. (January 13, 1927 - October 3, 1988) was an American Media mogul, best known for creating The National Enquirer. Pope learned the newspaper business from his father, Generoso Pope Sr., a New York political powerbroker and quarry magnate whose Italian-American newspaper interests included the "Corriere d'America" and the daily "Il Progresso Italo-Americano". Generoso Pope Sr. had ties to New York crime boss Frank Costello, … - Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947), is the son of Malcolm Forbes and the editor-in-chief of business magazine "Forbes" as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000 and is currently National Co-Chair and a Senior Policy Advisor to Rudolph Giuliani's 2008 campaign. - Tony O'Reilly
Sir Anthony "Tony" O'Reilly (born 7 May 1936) is a Dublin born billionaire who holds both British and Irish nationality. He is best known through his chairmanship of the Dublin-based Independent News & Media Group (INM) and as former CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company, but was also previously an international rugby union player. - Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. - Reinhard Mohn
Reinhard Mohn. Retired from media conglomerate Bertelsmann which his family owns. He received an honorary doctor from the University of Münster. Founder of the Círculo de Lectores (Reading Club) in Spain in 1962. He was awarded Premio Príncipe de Asturias in Communication and Humanities in 1998. He was the founder of the Bertelsmann Foundation in 1977. Reinhard Mohn is an honorary member of the Club of Rome. - Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of "Forbes magazine", founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes. He was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he donated the money for Forbes College, one of the five residential colleges at the University. He received an honorary degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was initiated as an honorary member of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. - Donald Newhouse
Donald Newhouse is one of the owners of Condé Nast Publications. With an estimated current net worth of around $7.3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 100-richest person in America. Notable children Kathryn Michael Steven. Notable Grandchildren Andrew David Alex Robert Sarah and Kate. Quote by Donald Newhouse "As my Grandson would say. Wow!" - Gerry Schwartz
Gerald W. Schwartz, born c.1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba where he became an active brother of the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. He later received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1970. In 1977 he co-founded CanWest Global Communications Inc, followed by Onex Corporation in 1983. He has been a director of Scotiabank since 1999. - Harold Greenberg
Harold Greenberg (January 11, 1930 - July 1, 1996) was a Canadian film producer. Born in Montreal, Greenberg began working in a second-hand camera store when he was thirteen. He set up his own film and photography company and made a fortune by obtaining the exclusive rights to footage from Expo 67 in Montreal. In 1973 he acquired Astral Communications and it became one of the leading film production companies in Canada, producing such films as "Porky's", … - Edward Samuel Rogers
Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC, BA, LL.B, D.Sc (born May 27, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he founded is now owned by competitor Standard Radio. Educated at Upper Canada College, where he was a member of Seaton's House, Rogers graduated from Trinity College, at the University of Toronto, … - Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005. Subsequently, younger brother James Murdoch is now viewed as his father's heir-apparent. Their sister Elisabeth Murdoch, an able businesswoman in her own right, is married to publicity wizard Matthew Freud. - Randolph Apperson Hearst
Randolph Apperson Hearst (December 2, 1915 - December 18, 2000) was the last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst. He is probably most famous for being the father of Patty Hearst and being threatened by the Symbionese Liberation Army when they kidnapped her in 1974. After his graduation from Harvard University in 1938, Randolph Hearst joined the family business, the Hearst Corporation. Long active in management of the San Francisco Examiner, … - Allan Waters
Allan Waters (born August 11, 1921, died December 3, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and media icon. Waters was one of the founders of CHUM Limited, a Canadian media corporation. Waters worked in a drug company and quit in 1954 and with partner Jerry Grafstein purchased a then money-losing station, 1050 CHUM. From this small humble station, Waters built his media empire. Getting ideas from a visit to Florida, Waters returned to Toronto and introduced the CHUM Chart, … - Jack Kent Cooke
Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 - 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. He owned the Washington Redskins (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), and the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), and built the The Forum in Inglewood, California. - Frank Batten
Frank Batten (1927-) is a communications entrepreneur who began his career when he assumed leadership of his uncle Samuel L. Slover's newspaper, "The Virginian-Pilot" and "The Ledger-Star" in Norfolk, Virginia at age 27 in 1954. Batten grew his uncle's business by acquiring additional newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, as well as founding a new cable station The Weather Channel. - Jean-Luc Lagardere
Jean-Luc Lagardere (February 10, 1928 - March 14, 2003) was a major French businessman. Jean-Luc Lagardere was a "Supelec" engineer. He began his career in Dassault Aviation. CEO of Matra in the 1960s, he became famous with success in Formula 1 and Le Mans. He later built a large media and defense conglomerate that bears his name. The Lagardere Group is among the largest French enterprises. - Roberto Marinho
Roberto Pisani Marinho. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marinho was the president and founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, Globo. He came under criticism in the documentary Beyond Citizen Kane for his role at Globo - Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes AO (born on) is the chairman of Seven Network, one of the largest broadcasting corporations in Australia, and a recipient of the Order of Australia recognising his contributions to Australian business. Stokes has great interest in art and was elected to the board of the National Gallery of Australia, and was chairman for five years, from 1996. Stokes is also the sole owner of the Australian & Northern China Caterpillar franchise, WesTrac. - Axel Springer
Axel Springer, was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company. Springer was born as Axel Cäsar Springer in Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher. Springer's career started with the foundation of "Axel Springer GmbH" in Hamburg in 1947. He published the "Hamburger Abendblatt" newspaper, followed by some magazines, including the popular radio and TV programme magazine "Hör zu".
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