Media proprietor

A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company, a significant part of the mass media. Media proprietors are commonly called "media moguls", "tycoons", barons", or "bosses".

List of media proprietors

• Emilio Azcárraga, Grupo Televisa
• Bill Bresnan
• Silvio Berlusconi, Fininvest, Mediaset
• Serge Dassault, Dassault Group
• Richard Desmond, Nothern and Shell, Express Newspapers
• Barry Diller, IAC/InterActiveCorp CEO
• Michael Eisner, Walt Disney Company Chairman
• William Randolph Hearst, newspaperman
• Robert Hersant, newspaperman
• Samir Jain & Vineet Jain of The Times Group
• Leo Kirch, of KirchMedia
• Jean-Luc and his son Arnaud Lagardère, Lagardère Group
• John Malone of Liberty Media
• Jean-Marie Messier, former head of Vivendi Universal
• Robert Maxwell, politician and newspaperman
• Thomas Middelhoff of Bertelsmann AG
• Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation
• Tony O'Reilly, Independent News & Media Group
• Kerry Packer of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL)
• Sumner Redstone, Viacom Chief
• Axel Springer, of Axel-Springer-Verlag
• Ted Turner, former Time Warner Vice President