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Forbes
Jun 1, 2016,02:26pm EDT
These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/?sh=7d7b3cab660a
Michael Bloomberg - Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Media
"Michael Bloomberg, the richest billionaire in the media business, returned to his eponymous media company in September 2014, eight months after stepping down as mayor of New York City. One notable sign of his influence on the publication: Michael Bloomberg doesn’t appear on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. FORBES pegs his net worth at $45.7 billion. Bloomberg cofounded his financial data company in 1981 with Charles Zegar and Thomas Secunda, both of whom are now billionaires as well thanks to their minority equity stakes in Bloomberg LP. The company expanded into business news coverage and has more than 2,000 reporters around the world. In 2009, Bloomberg LP bought Business Week magazine from McGraw Hill for a reported $5 million plus assumption of debt."
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https://www.forbes.com/pictures/574f52254bbe6f6361860947/15-billionaires-who-own-a/?sh=431ba3fab543
Rupert Murdoch - News Corp
"Rupert Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox , the parent of powerhouse cable TV channel Fox News, may well be the world’s most powerful media tycoon. He is executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox with his son Lachlan and is also chairman of News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Altogether, his family controls 120 newspapers across five countries. Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal also owns 1% of News Corp, after cutting down his holdings from 6% in early 2015."
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/574f52254bbe6f6361860947/rupert-murdoch–news-corp/?sh=502731c52a1c
Donald and Samuel “Si” Newhouse - Advance Publications
"Donald Newhouse and his brother Samuel “Si” Newhouse inherited Advance Publications, a privately-held media company that controls a plethora of newspapers, magazine, cable TV and entertainment assets, from their father. Advance owns newspapers in 25 cities and towns across America and is the country’s largest privately-held newspaper chain. Conde Nast, a unit of Advance Publications, publishes magazines including Wired, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Vogue. Si stepped down as chairman of Conde Nast in 2015."
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/574f52254bbe6f6361860947/donald-and-samuel-si-newh/?sh=621be942bc0c
Cox Family – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Cox Enterprises , owned by the billionaire Cox family, counts The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a number of other daily papers among its many media investments. James Cox, the company founder and grandfather of current chairman Jim Kennedy, bought his first newspaper, the Dayton Ohio Evening News, in 1898. At its peak, Cox Enterprises had 17 dailies, eight TV stations and nine radio stations. The company sold many of these newspapers during the Recession starting in 2008 but still owns the Journal-Constitution and a number of other smaller publications."
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/574f52254bbe6f6361860947/cox-family–atlanta-journ/?sh=49e5d8bb2e63
Jeff Bezos - WaPo
"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013. Since beginning his run for president, Trump has accused Bezos of using the Post to get tax breaks for Amazon and sending reporters after Trump. Bezos denied the allegations at a tech conference at the Washington Post in May. The Post’s reporters also defended themselves, saying that the paper has covered Amazon’s tax problems and that the Post’s editorial board’s stance on taxing online retailers hasn’t changed since Bezos bought the paper."
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/574f52254bbe6f6361860947/jeff-bezos–the-washingto/?sh=2e290ac867a2