Media proprietor
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A media proprietor, media mogul or media tycoon refers to a successful entrepreneur who controls, through personal ownership or via a dominant position in any media related company or enterprise, media consumed by many individuals. Those with significant control, ownership, and influence of a large company in the mass media may also be called a tycoon, baron, or business magnate. Social media creators and founders can also be considered media moguls.
History[edit]
In the United States, newspaper proprietors first became prominent in the 19th century with the development of mass circulation newspapers. In the 20th century, proprietorship expanded to include ownership of radio and television networks, as well as film studios, publishing houses, and more recently internet and other forms of multimedia companies. Reflecting this, the term "press baron" was replaced by "media baron", and the term "media mogul" (or "Hollywood mogul" when applied to people specifically working in the motion picture industry, having actually spawned a similarly named computer game) was popularized in colloquial English.
In modern relevance, social media sites need to be taken into account such as Facebook in relation to Mark Zuckerberg who is an extremely important media proprietor.[1] Media and technology play a significant role in mass-media production.
Notable media proprietors[edit]
- Jay-Z
- Marcus Agius (BBC)
- Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
- Henry Luce
- Sally Aw
- Andrej Babiš
- Zdeněk Bakala
- Jaume Roures (Mediapro)
- David and Frederick Barclay
- Silvio Berlusconi (Mediaset)
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- Conrad Black
- Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg)
- Lukas Bonnier
- Scooter Braun
- Subhash Chandra
- Gustavo Cisneros
- Victor Civita (Grupo Abril, Veja)
- Sean Combs
- Richard Desmond
- Hans Dichand
- Walt Disney (Disney)
- Aydın Doğan
- Steve Forbes
- Iris Fontbona
- Octávio Frias (Folha de S.Paulo)
- Sheyene Gerardi
- Lew Grade
- Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
- William Randolph Hearst
- Robert Hersant
- Alfred Hugenberg
- Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks)
- Jimmy Lai
- Jean-Luc and Arnaud Lagardère
- Roberto Marinho (TV Globo, O Globo)
- Robert Maxwell
- Hary Tanoesoedibjo
- Vince McMahon
- John de Mol Jr. (Endemol)
- Javier Moll
- Sun Myung Moon (The Washington Times)
- Keith Murdoch (Fox)
- Rupert Murdoch (Fox)
- Chairul Tanjung
- Samuel Newhouse
- Roberto Noble
- Denis O'Brien
- Tony O'Reilly
- Kerry Packer
- David Portnoy
- Shahrzad Rafati
- Sumner Redstone
- Mir Shakil ur Rehman
- Pat Robertson (CBN)
- Edir Macedo (RecordTV)
- Matsutaro Shoriki
- Haim Saban
- Davíð Oddsson
- Silvio Santos (SBT)
- Manmohan Shetty
- Axel Springer
- Al-Waleed bin Talal
- David Thomson
- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
- Ted Turner (CNN)
- Tsuneo Watanabe
- Jan Wejchert
- Oprah Winfrey
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
- Elon Musk (Twitter)