Samuel Johnson
English dictionary of 40,000 words, editor of the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755
Adrian Wooldridge
Economist, economics political commentator, politics, Bagehot columnist, managing editor-in-chief of The Economist, author of the Aristocracy of Talent
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
mathematician, physicist known for the D'Alembert formula of waves, philosopher, co-editor of the Encyclopédie (of Enlightenment) with Denis Diderot
1717-1783 (66)
Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe
tabloid journalist, director and publicist for Wellington House (Tavistock Institute), founder of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, newspaper magnate aka Lord Northcliffe for the British Crown, married into the Rothschilds family dynasty
Angelica Cheung living
Journalist, founding editor-in-chief of Vogue China in 2005
1966- (58)
Anna Wintour living
Editor-in-chief at Vogue since 1998, fashion journalist, global chief content officer and artistic director for Condé Nast, socialite, journalist
1949- (75)
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
News publisher, editor-in-chief of The New York Times from 1935-1961
B.C. Forbes
Financial journalist, researcher, writer for Leslie's Weekly, founder of Forbes magazine in 1916, after moving to the USA in 1904
1880-1954 (74)
Benjamin Fulford living
Researcher, former editor-in-chief at Forbes Japan, writer about the Sabbateans mafia in 2005
1961- (63)
benjaminfulford.net
William F. Buckley
TV host of the Firing Line, Best of Enemies, entrepreneur, founder and chief editor of the National Review, political commentator, politics, conservative author of God and Man at Yale, Up from Liberalism, Saving the Queen, CIA intelligence officer, director of the Council on Foreign Relations
1925-2008 (83)
Bill Kristol
Editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, writer, journalist, formerly founder and editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard
David Barclay living
Billionaire media mogul, co-owner of the Telegraph, retailer
1933- (91)
Diane Francis living
Editor-in-chief, journalist, writer for the National Post, Financial Post since 1998
1946- (78)
dianefrancis.com
Denis Diderot
philosopher, pioneer of the Diderot Effect on consumption, art critic, academic writer, co-editor of the Encyclopédie for thoughts on the Enlightenment with Jean le Rond d'Alembert
1713-1784 (71)
plato.stanford.edu
Donald E. Graham
Journalist, editor, son of Phil Graham who co-founded The Washington Post, leader of Facebook's board of directors
Edward Enninful
Editor-in-chief of British Vogue, editorial director of Condé Nast Europe
Ferdinand Springer
Publisher, entrepreneur, co-founder of Springer-Verlag in 1842 with his father Julius Springer
1846-1906 (60)
Franco Di Bella
Journalist, editor-in-chief of Corriere della Sera
1927-1997 (70)
Fred Eychaner living
founder of Sportsvision, entrepreneur, businessman, founder and chairman of Newsweb since 1971, political donor, philanthropist, founder of Alphawood Foundation, inducted into the Chicag
1945- (79)
chicagolgbthalloffame.org
Frederick Barclay
Billionaire, media mogul, co-owner of the Telegraph, retailer
Frederick Denison Maurice
editor of Metropolitan Quarterly magazine, author of The History of the Puritans
spartacus-educational.com
Generoso Pope
Investigative journalist, founder and editor of the National Enquirer, gossip media mogul, propaganda powerbroker
Gideon Rachman living
Journalist, editor-in-chief of foreign affairs for the Financial Times (FT) since 2006
1963- (61)
Gregory S. Kealey living
Canada historian, author of Spying on Canadians, founding editor of the labour journal "Le Travail", professor emeritus of history at University of New Brunswick
1948- (76)
Harold Harmsworth
news press oligarch aka Lord Rothmere, owner of Associated Newspapers (DMG Media), Northcliffe Media, Harmsworth Printing, Harmsworth Media, pacifist, socialist, fascist supporter of Nazi Germany relations with Britain (UK), president of the Air Council from 1917-1918
Hedley W. Donovan
Journalist, writer and editor of TIME magazine from 1964-1979, Rhodes scholar, director at the Council on Foreign Relations
Henry Blodget
journalist, chief editor, co-founder of Business Insider that is now Insider, Inc.
Henry Luce
Founder of FORTUNE magazine, after co-founding TIME magazine with Briton Hadden
1898-1967 (69)
Hugh Hefner
Socialite, founder, editor-in-chief of Playboy Magazine, entrepreneur
Ian Hislop living
Journalist, satirist, writer, magazine editor at Private Eye (Pressdram)
1960- (64)
private-eye.co.uk
James Hoge
Editor at Foreign Affairs, former publisher of the New York Daily News, former editor of the Chicago Sun Times
James Murray
English dictionary of 5,000 words, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1879
public.oed.com
James Norman
Journalist, writer, senior editor at Forbes Magazine, Media Bypass magazine
Jason Epstein
publisher, editorial director of Random House from 1976-1995, co-founder of Library of America, The New York Review of Books in 1963, writer, editor, author of Book Business, founder of the Library of America
1928-2022 (94)
linkedin.com
John Avlon living
Journalist, political commentator, politics, news anchor at CNN, editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast, author of Washington's Farewell, Wingnuts, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Independent Nation, owns a former Astor family duplex in New York City
1973- (51)
John Micklethwait
Journalist, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, former editor at The Economist
John Swinton
Journalist, chief edtior at the New York Times, New York Sun, journeyman printer apprentice, democrat, pioneer in labor relations with John Swinton's Paper
1829-1901 (72)
Jonathan Harmsworth living
billionaire heir of Lord Rothmere and Lord Northcliffe news media dynasty, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) since 1998 which also owns the Daily Mirror formerly of Associated Newspapers Holdings (or ANH), managing director of the Evening Standard, great-grandson of Harold Harmsworth (Lord Rothmere)
1967- (57)
dmgt.com
Joseph Kahn
Executive editor of the New York Times
nytco.com
Julian Assange living
investigative journalist, founder of WikiLeaks in 2006, editor, CIA whistleblower, political activist
1971- (53)
Julius Springer
Publisher, entrepreneur, founder of Springer-Verlag in 1842, Springer Science+Business Media, DVV Media Group
1817-1877 (60)
Katharine "Kay" Graham
News publisher, journalist, chief editor, chairwoman of the Washington Post from 1963-1991, ran the family newspaper The Washington Post for two decades, prominently during the Watergate scandal period, journalist, former owner of the Washington Post, director at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Lally Weymouth
journalist, senior associate editor at the Washington Post, former diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine (owned by he
Larry Sanger
Philosopher, agnostic educator, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, Nupedia (Bomis)
Leopold Greenberg
Publisher, owner and editor-in-chief of The Jewish Chronicle
Malcolm Forbes
News publisher, bought out Louis Keller and the Social Register, his father started Forbes magazine in 1916
1919-1990 (71)
Marc Benioff living
Billionaire founder, chairman and CEO at Salesforce.com, entrepreneur, author of Behind the Cloud, Trailblazer, editor-in-chief of Time Magazine since 2018
1964- (60)
Martin Sandler
Historian, investigative journalist, writer, editor of The Letters of John F Kennedy (JFK)
Martin Wolf
Ecnomist, economics political commentator, politics, editor-in-chief of Financial Times (FT)
Michael Callahan living
CIA intelligence officer, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, author of Searching for Grace Kelly
1963- (61)
hmhbooks.com
Michael Chomiak
Nazi propagandist, editor for Krakivski Visti (Krakow News), grandfather of Chrystia Freeland
Michael Shermer living
Publisher, founder and editor at Skeptic Magazine, podcaster on the The Michael Shermer Show, teacher of Skepticism 101, author of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories: What We Should Believe and Why
1954- (70)
skeptic.com
Richard Lambert
Journalist, editor of the Financial Times, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), chairman of the British Museum
Richard Mellon Scaife
billionaire heir to the Mellon banking family, philanthropist, publisher, editor, owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, founder of The Arkansas Project, spent $2 million on investigating Bill Clinton
1932-2014 (82)
Riss living
Cartoonist, author, owner and publisher of Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper
1966- (58)
Robert Cawdrey
English dictionary of 3,000 words, editor of the Table Alphabeticall in 1604
bl.uk
Robert, Lord Gavron
Publisher, chairman of St Ives Group from 1964-1993, editor at Carcanet Press from 1983-2015, director at Octopus Publishing from 1975-1987, Electra Management from 1981-1992, chairman of the Folio Society from 1982-2015
Robert Prichard
former President and CEO of Torstar, editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star
Rupert "Hu Run" Hoogewerf living
Journalist, writer, editor, chief researcher for the Hurun Rich List
1970- (54)
hurun.net
Rupert Pennant-Rea
Chairman of Janus Henderson Investors, chairnon-executive chairman at Cloud Cycle, journalist, chairman of The Economist Group, former deputy governor of the Bank of England
linkedin.com
Sam Newhouse Sr.
Entrepreneur, businessman, editor, publisher, founder of Advance Publications
1895-1979 (84)
Simon Nixon living
billionaire businessman, co-founder of MoneySupermarket.com, currency trading, forex (foreign exchange), price comparisons, product reviews, editor at The Wealth of Nations, European commentator at Wall Street Journal
1967- (57)
moneysupermarket.com
W.T. Stead
Liberal investigative journalist, writer, illustrator, contributor at Northern Echo (1870), assistant editor of the Pall Mall Gazette (1880), founder of Review of Reviews (1890), founder of The Daily Paper (1904), pioneer in Ruskinian imperialism of John Ruskin lectures, member of the South Africa Committee, wrote about the Titantic years prior to disappearing on it
1849-1912 (63)
britannica.com
Steve Forbes living
CEO of Forbes Media from 1990-2018, editor-in-chief at Forbes, his father was Malcolm Forbes, his grandfather B.C. Forbes founded the Forbes magazine in 1916
1947- (77)
Vere Harmsworth
newspaper heir, media mogul, chairman of Associated Newspapers Holdings (ANH) from 1970-1978, chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust (DGMT) from 1978-1998, founder of The Mail on Sunday, owner of Derry Street Properties (formerly DMGH)
Walter Isaacson living
Professor at Tulane University, biography writer, journalist, author of The Code Breaker, Steve Jobs autobiography, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman and CEO of CNN, editor of TIME magazine
1952- (72)
isaacson.tulane.edu
Walter Layton
Economist, editor of The Economist from 1922-1938
1884-1966 (82)
britannica.com
Walter Lippmann
political commentator, politics, journalist, writer, founding editor of The New Republic, propagandist, pioneer in surveys, author of Public Opinion in 1922, introduced the concept of the Cold War
cjr.org
Willow Bay
TV journalist for the NBC Today Show, broadcaster, author, editor, dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism since 2017, wife of Bob Iger (Disney CEO)
annenberg.usc.edu