List of Jews in American media
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Jews play a vital role in the leadership of the American media as they do in many other American instituations. This is a list of influential Jews in the American media as of March 2007. see also: List of Jewish American businesspeople
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Television & General media, production
In the beginning, the American media market was centered around three outlets, each independent of each other; CBS, ABC, and NBC. Each of these media powerhouses were started by Jews; CBS first by William Paley and then by Laurence Tisch, ABC by Leonard Goldenson, and NBC first by David Sarnoff and then by his son Robert.
Dan Abrams, General Manager of MSNBC 1
Robert Sillerman, founder of Clear Channel Communications
Thomas Friedman, columnist, The New York Times. The man is much called upon for his views on international and national policy. He is a man well connected to power sources and is a mover himself.
Brian Graden, president of MTV entertainment
Michael Eisner, CEO, Walt Disney Company which runs Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Television), its own cable network with 14 million subscribers, and two video production companies.
Joe Roth, head of Walt Disney Picture Group.
Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications
Harvey Weinstein, CEO of Miramax Films.
Steven Bornstein, president and CEO of ESPN. The corporation also has a controlling share of the Arts & Entertainment Network cable companies and Lifetime Television.
Gerald M. Levin, CEO of Time Warner, Inc. Time Warner’s subsidiary HBO is the country’s largest pay-TV cable network.
Danny Goldberg, head of Warner Brothers Records.
Stuart Hersh, president of Warnervision, Warner Music’s video production unit.
Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Warner’s publishing division.
Sumner Redstone, (formerly Murray Rothstein), CEO of Viacom, "world's biggest media giant" (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.
Rupert Murdoch, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World. His mother is Jewish. 3
Peter Chernin, heads Murdoch’s film studio and oversees his TV production.
Michael Schulhof, in charge of Sony Corporation of America.
Alan J. Levine, heads the Sony Pictures division.
Ronald Perelman, Owner of New World Entertainment
Brandon Tartikoff (d. 1997), chairman of New World Entertainment.
David Geffen, Founder of Dreamworks SKG.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks. (Former Disney Pictures Chairman)
Stephen Spielberg, Dreamworks.
Edgar Bronfman Jr, president and CEO of Seagram Company, LTD which owns MCA and Universal Pictures. He is also president of the World Jewish Congress.
News Divisions
Victor S. Neufeld, ABC, 20-20.
Barbarra Walters, Host, ABC's 20-20
Bob Reichbloom, ABC Good Morning America.
Rick Kaplan, ABC, World News Tonight.
Eric Ober, remains president of CBS News.
Don Hewitt, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS
Jeff Fager, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS
David Poltrack, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS
Mike Wallace, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes
Andrew Lack NBC News president.
Jeff Zucker, executive producer Today.
Jeff Gralnick, executive producer NBC Nightly News.
Neal Shapiro, executive producer Dateline.
Radio show hosts
Howard Stern, Radio Talk Show host.
Ron Owens, Radio Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
John Rothman, Radio Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
Sid Rosenberg, sidekick to Don Imus, now on 790am, Miami Dolphines network.
Michael Savage, Radio Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets
Michael Medved, Radio Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations
Dennis Prager, Radio Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.
Newspapers & Magazines
Samuel Newhouse. (d.) Newspaper magnate.
Samuel Newhouse Jr, Donald Newhouse. Heirs and owners of Advance Publications.
- Together, "Huntsville, Alabama, morning News and afternoon Times; the Birmingham, Alabama, morning Post Herald and afternoon News; the Mobile, Alabama, morning Register and afternoon Press; the Springfield, Massachusetts, morning Union, afternoon News, and Sunday-only Republican; the Syracuse, New York, morning Post-Standard and afternoon Herald-Journal;... the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the nation’s largest trade book publishing conglomerate, Random House, with all its subsidiaries; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the country’s largest cable networks; the Sunday supplement Parade, with a circulation of more than 22 million copies per week; some two dozen major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bride’s, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Self, House & Garden, and all the other magazines of the wholly owned Conde Nast group."
Donald Newhouse is also chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.
Peter R. Kann, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron's
William Kristol, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
Ron Rosenthal, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
Phil Bronstein, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle.
Barbara Epstein, co-founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books 2
Jason Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books
Daniel Menaker, Executive Director, Harper Collins
David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker
Nicholas Lehmann, writer, the New York
Henrick Hertzberg, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker
William Safire, syndicated columnist for the NYT.
Tom Freidman, syndicated columnist for the NYT. Mr. Freidman is much wanted on talk shows.
Howard Fineman, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek
Michael Ledeen, editor of National Review
Bruce Nussbaum, editorial page editor, Business Week
Catherine Graham Meyer, (d.) former owner of the Washington Post
Donald Graham, Heir of Catherine Graham, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post.
Robert Maxwell (originally Ludvik Hoch), (d.) owner of New York Daily News
Mortimer B. Zukerman, current owner of the New York Daily News; U.S. News and World Report, Atlantic Monthly.
Leonard Stern, owner The Village Voice
Marty Peretz, owner and publisher of the New Republic.
Adolph Ochs, (d.) Owner of NY Times.
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr Heir of Ochs, publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other major newspapers.
Max Frankel, executive editor of the NY Times.
Joseph Lelyveld, managing editor of the NY Times.
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post
Jeff Jacoby, columnist for the Boston Globe
Charles Krauthhammer, columnist for the Washington Post.
Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Inst. columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS.
Ron Unz Publisher of The American Conservative magazine 4
Book Publishing
Richard Snyder, Western Publishing (13th largest but with 50% share of children's literature).
Richard Bernstein, former head at Western publishing.
Internet Sites
Lawerence Auster, (a convert to Christianity), runs "View from the Right".
David Horowitz, Owner and publisher of Front Page Magazine
Matt Drudge, Owner and publisher of Drudge Report5
References
General references:
- "American left-wing Jewish leader Dan Abrams"
- via WP
- Jews in the Media. preceeding link.
- "...and when the wealthy Jew, Ron Unz,..." [1]
- "Interestingly enough, Drudge is Jewish and a good friend of Ann's..." post of RegoPark @ Jan 25 2005, 03:34 PM
