- Silvio Berlusconi
(born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 1993 in Rome. Berlusconi has twice held office as prime minister of Italy, most recently from 2001 to 2006. Berlusconi is the founder and main shareholder of Fininvest, among the ten largest Italian privately-owned companies, operating in media and finance including three national TV channels.
- Dean Takahashi
Check out my cool video. It's not really me. It's a synthetic me. A company called Mova captured my face and cast it in digital form. With their animation technology, they could get me to say things I never did. :) Look for this technology to appear in video games in a year or two. I am Dean Takahashi.
- John Markoff
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
- Nicole Stockdale
Nicole Stockdale is a newspaper copy editor, well known in the industry for her blog, A Capital Idea, one of the first blogs focused on the craft of copy editing to attract a national audience. Stockdale began her career at "The Wichita Eagle" in Wichita, Kansas, as an intern in the late 1990s, while she was still a journalism student at Wichita State University. Before joining the "Eagle", Stockdale had been an intern for EMILY's List, a Washington, D.C., …
- Ted Rall
Ted Rall , America's hardest-hitting editorial satirist, is President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists . He is also an award-winning political commentator who also works as a syndicated columnist, author, freelance illustrator and (when he gets the chance) radio commentator. This site includes his blog , as well as regular updates of his three cartoons per week , weekly opinion columns and news about his latest projects.
- Monika Czaplicka
I speak English and a bit German. And of course Polish. I write articles to three newspapers - one at my school, one national and one at journalism lessons. I have a broadcast in an internet radio. Additionally sometimes I write notes about films to various web pages. I also produce and write school plays, work in kosmetics company- Oriflame and play in a pantomime. Preety much, isn't it?
- Gunnar R Johansson
- Joakim Jardenberg
New media guru. Anything and everything in the crossroad of traditional and new media.
- Alberto D'Ottavi
Actually I'm working on projects about Web 2.0, social media and technologies; I've been a manager in publishing houses, for both on-line and printed media. Having a technical background, I specialized in the ICT market and the Internet; I also write about these topics as journalist, blogger and author. I have just published a book about Web 2.0
- Renato Cruz
I write about technology.
- Pierre Tran
- Daniel Fost
- Emil Abirascid
- Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and writer. He was arrested on April 22, 2000 after he took part in a conference held in Berlin on April 7 and 8, 2000. He was imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran until his release on March 18, 2006. He holds a Masters degree in Communications. He is the winner of the 2006 World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award in 2000.
- Ty Young
I am a freelance reporter based in Phoenix, Ariz. I cover numerous business topics, and have extensive experience in renewable energy, technology, biotechnology and intellectual property litigation coverage.
- Riccardo Cervelli
- Nicolas Huber
French speaking/writing journalist. Area: US East coast.
- Stephen Miller
Stephen C. Miller is Assistant to the Technology Editor at The New York Times. He oversees the training of reporters and editors in the use of new technologies. Miller helps determine the news department's computer and telecommunications needs. He also writes on computers and consumer electronics for the paper.
- John Wallach
John Wallach (1943-10 July 2002) was an American journalist, author and editor as well as founder of Seeds of Peace international camp in Maine. He was a 1964 graduate of Middlebury College, where he gave the 1999 commencement address. In 2001, Wallach also gave a special address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature. His wife, Janet Wallach, is the former president of Seeds of Peace after Aaron Miller was president of the organization from 2002-2005.
- Kevin Delaney
- Peter Tatchell
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-British human rights activist, who is best known internationally for his attempts to perform a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001, on charges of torture and other human rights abuses. Tatchell was selected as Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981, …
- Paul Dacre
Paul Michael Dacre (born November 14, 1948) is a British journalist. After being a correspondent, bureau chief, and assistant editor in the Associated Newspapers group, Dacre was named Editor of the "Evening Standard" in 1991. Not satisfied with heading the smallest of Associated's three titles, the next year he threatened to leave the company unless made Editor of the flagship "Daily Mail" in place of Sir David English, who had held the post for decades.
- Ben Sargent
Ben Sargent (born 1948) is an American editorial cartoonist. Since 1974, he has been drawing editorial cartoons for the "Austin American-Statesman". His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen.
- Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles left "The Buffalo News" in 2002, accepting an offer from "The Washington Post" to replace Herblock, their late, …
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Lord Northcliffe, for the development of the London "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror". He was a pioneer of popular journalism.
- Tony Livesey
Tony Livesey (born in Lancashire on January 11 1964) is a British journalist and broadcaster from Burnley. He spent 18 years with Sport Newspapers at which he was editor-in-chief and managing director of the "Daily Sport" and "Sunday Sport" newspapers, in the United Kingdom. After resigning in August, 2006, he joined the BBC and is currently reporting sport for the regional TV news progamme BBC North West Tonight.
- George Swindin
George Hedley Swindin was an English football player and manager.
- Hong Seok-Hyun
Hong Seok-hyun (b. 1949) is a noted figure in South Korean business. He served as South Korea's ambassador to the United States from December 2004 until his resignation on July 26 2005. The resignation was sparked by media reports that he was involved in a 1997 scheme by Samsung to bribe various politicians including Grand National Party leader Lee Hoi-chang, by providing financial support to them in the South Korean presidential election of 1997.
- Johann Carolus
Johann Carolus was the publisher of the first newspaper, called "Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien" (Collection of all distinguished and commemorable news). The "Relation" is recognised by the World Association of Newspapers, as well as many authors as the world's first newspaper. The German "Relation" was published in Strassburg, which had the status of an imperial free city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
- Olav Terje Bergo
Olav Terje Bergo has been chief editor of Bergensavisen BA since 1984, and was chairman of the board of the Norwegian Media Business organization in 2002-05. In the past he was a board member of the European National Publishers Association (ENPA), and of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in 2001-2006.
- George Gibson
George C. Gibson (July 22 1880 - January 25 1967), nicknamed Moon, was a Canadian baseball player who caught for two different Major League teams during the 1910s. In the 1920s and 1930s he served as manager for Pittsburgh and for the Chicago Cubs. He started his managerial career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a AAA Class team in the International League. Gibson was the nephew of William Southam, founder of Southam Newspapers, …
- Patsy McGarry
Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs correspondent of The Irish Times in the Republic of Ireland. He succeeded Andy Pollack as editor in the mid-1990s. He also is the commissioning editor for articles which are published in the paper's "Rite and Reason" column every Monday. McGarry also writes occasionally on social issues for the newspaper. A native of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, he is a graduate of University College Galway, …
- Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy MBE (August 26 1917 - December 13 2006) is best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community near the village of Findhorn on the Moray Firth in northeast Scotland. She was born Eileen Marion Jessop in Alexandria, Egypt, daughter of a director of Barclays Bank DCO. Educated at a domestic college, she ran an Oxfordshire pub with her brother for four years. She then married Squadron Leader Andrew Combe in 1939 and had five children with him.
- Paul Rigby
Paul Crispin Rigby AM (October 25, 1924 – November 15 2006), usually working under the name Rigby, was an award-winning Australian cartoonist who worked principally for newspapers in the UK, the US and Australia. Born Sandringham, Melbourne, Rigby studied art at Brighton Technical School before leaving at 15 to work as a commercial artist, eventually taking up freelance work. Rigby served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, …
- Lyn Nofziger
Franklyn C. "Lyn" Nofziger (8 June 1924 - 27 March 2006) was an American journalist, political consultant and author. He served as press secretary in Ronald Reagan's administration as Governor of California, and as a White House advisor during the Richard Nixon administration and again during the Reagan presidency. Born in Bakersfield, California, Nofziger served in the U.S. Army and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from San Jose State College.
- Vivien Duffield
Dame Vivien Louise Duffield, DBE (born 1946), British socialite and philanthropist. The only daughter of millionaire businessman Sir Charles Clore, Duffield was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, and was for some years married to the British financier John Duffield, chairman of New Star Asset Management. After Sir Charles Clore's death in 1979, Vivien Duffield assumed the Chairmanship of Clore's charitable institution, the Clore Foundation.
- Jani Allan
Jani Allan is a South African journalist and top radio commentator. Allan was formerly South Africa's leading columnist during her time at The Sunday Times (South Africa) newspaper. Her personal life has also frequently made the headlines, particularly in 1988 with her association with one of her Sunday Time's interviewees, right-wing AWB leader, Eugène Terre'Blanche.
- Tony Geros
- David Coleman
David Coleman, OBE (born 26 April 1926) is a former British sports commentator and TV presenter. In 2000, he was awarded the Olympic Order, the highest honour of the Olympic movement. Coleman was originally a keen amateur runner. In 1949, he won the Manchester Mile, the only non-international runner to do so. However, injury caused him to give up competitive running. He worked as a reporter for the Stockport Express, …
- Addington Bruce
(Henry) Addington (Bayley) Bruce (1874-1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto "Week", then came to the United States, was employed by the American Press Association between 1897 and 1903, and afterward contributed to many periodicals, notably "The Outlook". In 1916 he resigned as staff contributor to "The Outlook".