Who owns news media

Advance owns newspapers in 25 cities and towns across America and is the country's largest privately-held newspaper chain. Si stepped down as chairman of Conde Nast in 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 The Cox Media Group Division today owns the Journal-Constitution and six other daily newspapers, more than a dozen non-daily publications, 14 broadcast television stations, one local cable channel and 59 radio stations. 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.

John Henry - The Boston Globe. Henry agreed to purchase the Globe just days after Bezos acquired the Washington Post.

The Globe was previously owned by the New York Times for twenty years. At the time of his purchase, Henry said he didn't plan to influence the paper's sports coverage. Since then, there have been reports of Adelson influencing coverage of himself at a newspaper that in the past was often critical of the billionaire. Joe Mansueto - Inc. One month after taking Morningstar public in , Mansueto bought Inc.

In a statement at the time , he wrote, " I wasn't looking to buy a magazine. Or two, for that matter I bought them because I'm passionate about their missions. Their past, present, and future contributions. Zuckerman serves as chairman and editor-in-chief of U. Zuckerman bought the Daily News out of bankruptcy in and unsuccessfully tried to sell the tabloid newspaper for six months in Barbey family - Village Voice. Barbey is a member of the billionaire Barbey family, which made its fortune in textiles and manufacturing.

His son J. The family has also owned a local Pennsylvania paper, The Reading Eagle, for generations. While a decent amount of that value comes from his stake in National Amusements, much more of it comes from the companies that he owns. These brands include GameSpot, Metacritic, c net, and Sports. Media Conglomerate 2: Disney Disney is probably the most well-known media name on this list.

They own so, so much. He technically oversees all of the following companies. There are so many different companies that you really just have to see it for yourself. Disney also owns ESPN, which has its own publishing arm for all things sports. Video Game Assets Finally, Disney owns a few video game assets. For even more digital marketing advice, sign up for the email that more than , other marketers trust: Revenue Weekly.

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Very knowledgeable about the ever changing algorithms that make up SEO! Atsinger's son and Epperson's nephew, Edward "Ted" C. Astinger, holds another 4. In and , Epperson was the Republican nominee for the fifth Congressional district of North Carolina. Previously published by the Heritage Foundation, the company is now owned and operated by Salem Communications.

Townhall Media is a conservative media company including HotAir. Salem Media Group, Inc. Diana Davis Spencer Foundation. Jaquish and Kenninger Foundation. Dunn Foundation. Ed Uihlein Foundation. Holman Foundation. Karpus Family Foundation. Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Milstein Foundation. Sarah Scaife Foundation. Searle Freedom Trust. Thomas W. Smith Foundation. Triad Foundation. Skip to main content. Main Menu Utility Menu Search. Other major donors include Google. BBC reports , via Wikipedia, that the site had on average in , 1.

SimilarWeb reports over 5B monthly visits for April Other top share owners: The Vanguard Group, Inc. Publicly Traded TV and Digital 2. Website visits in Dec. Source: Adweek and Press Gazette.

However, unique monthly views were M in Dec. Source: CNN. The E. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D. ION reaches more than million homes through over-the-air and pay TV platforms. Owns 60 TV stations in 41 markets see map and reaches million homes. Newsy, one of its news products has an average of K visitors a month SimilarWeb April but it's hold of local tv, radio, Stitcher, Cracked, Newsy and more.

The largest shareholder is the Laurene Powell Jobs Trus t, which holds stock that she inherited from her husband Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs received the Disney stock when they acquired Pixar. Majority voting shareholde rs are Robert A.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. Publicly Traded TV and Digital 9. NBCUniversal is then owned by parent company Comcast. Brian L. Since , the company has been wholly owned by Comcast, which bought GE's ownership stake. Three biggest shareholders: The Vanguard Group, Inc 8. Publicly Traded TV and Digital 8. ComScore also reports their digital uniques for Feb. Other major owners: The Vanguard Group, Inc. Publicly Traded TV and Digital 6. Verizon announced in early , it will put all of its media properties Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy whereas TechCrunch, AutoBlog and Engadget have not been renamed or rebranded yet.

Yet, M on average uniques are reported monthly to the site by Comscore. Average weekday prime time news audience in was 2M. Affiliate stations all raise their own donor funds and are given a portion of the government funds.

National donors. Government funding plays a role but local donors are significant force. Hard to measure as a whole. Comscore Feb. Publicly Traded Print and Digital 8. It is the largest U. A Hong Kong-based group of investors holds the majority stake in Forbes Media company.

Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. In November , the magazine's website had 69 million monthly U. Private For Profit Print and Digital million people across all platforms , self-reported , , print circulation , Alliance for Audited Media , MacArthur Foundation John S.

Television and Digital Each month , PBS reaches over million people through television and 26 million people online. Publicly Traded Print and Digital , Sunday readers , source , 6. It has M on average monthly visits SimilarWeb April It also owns Reddit and Advance Local. Private For Profit Print and Digital Wired, The New Yorker and Vogue alone each have over 1 million paid subscribers and add to that individual website traffic and we are well into the millions.

More than digital video pilots in production for the season. Conde Nast content collectively reaches over a billion people a month. They also own Reddit which has 1. Roberts, Jerome Kohlberg Jr. Private Equity. Axel Springer SE is a German digital publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands. ComScore reports monthly uniques for Feb. Huge rise in traffic and calls themselves AI elite. In , Diller exchanged abou t 4.

This gives him ownership of about 34 percent of the votes of IAC's shares, the largest voting stake in the company. He also has the option to increase the voting stake to 41 percent in the next nine months.

Sulzberger, its CEO is soft-spoken and measured. For a hundred years, for better or worse, no institution has played a larger role in American culture and politics.

And no corporation with comparable clout has been continuously controlled by a single family since Today almost a dozen Sulzberger cousins are at the NYT. The fami ly has long seen itself as the keeper of the public trust. In Dec. It no longer has any debt, and last year it paid off a loan that allowed it to buy back its Manhattan headquarters. ComScore reports Feb.

He bought it from Viacom CBS in Its other minority shareholder, General Atlantic, a global growth investor , has been with the company since 0.

Private For Profit Digital only Private For Profit Print and Digital 2 million subscribers. WashPost reports Collins, Jr. The Kendeda Fund, W. MacArthur Foundation, Jacqueline B. Mars, The Andrew W. It was founded in by Randall D. Starting in , Smith began quietly buying up newspaper chains around the U.

Alden's managing President is Heath Freeman. Smith, according to a New York Times profile published more than two decades ago, abhors publicity and avoids cameras. His brother, Russ, founded the Baltimore and Washington, D. MNG Enterprises, Inc. Private Hedge Fund Print and Digital 2. Per month, they reach 81M readers. Allen considers his stewardship of the Weather Channel a live-saving endeavor. Publicly Traded Print and Digital 2. Sources: Pitchbook and New Yorker.

They have on average 2. The firm has invested in Spanish-language media such as Hemisphere Media and Liberty Latin America, a telecommunications company with operations in Chile and Puerto Rico that is affiliated with media mogul John Malone.

Prime Time audience has continued around 1. Verizon Media now has a minority stake in BuzzFeed as a result of the tie-up. Buzzfeed is fueled by venture capital, originally 50M from Andreessen Horowitz. Comcast Corp. But growth has slowed considerably in recent years.

In , the company began missing its revenue targets. WashPost via Comscore reports Feb. It delivers weather information on television, digital platforms and TV apps. Founded in , "Pelmorex" is a portmanteau derived from the name of the company's chairman and controlling shareholder, Pierre L.

Diversified shareholders. The company has 1 ranked stations in 77 of its markets and 2 ranked stations in 16 markets. Howell 4. In , the company was rebranded as Newsweek Media Group. Pragad serves as CEO overseeing all of Newsweek's operations. Davis has no operational role at Newsweek. Davis, is married to the president of Christian College, Olivet University.

The opinion section is brimming with right-wing columnists: Nigel Farage, Newt Gingrich are regulars, as is Alan Dershowitz. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the US. Mortimer Zuckerman donates to both Democrats and Republicans with more donations going to Democrats. News generates revenue through advertising.

Founded in , U. News is headquartered in Washington, D. The company is privately owned by Mortimer B. Other titles include: usnews. News Live with flagship conferences on important national conversations surrounding the Healthcare of Tomorrow and Workforce of Tomorrow. Private For Profit Print and Digital A subsidiary, Advance Local, operates 12 local news and information websites affiliated more than 30 newspapers.

The owner. Marketwatch 50,, 40 McClatchy 30 major dailies see in tab below Chatham Assets Management led by Anthony Melchiorre , a Chicago-area native who has earned a reputation on Wall Street as a tough negotiator. Prior to buying McClatchy, Chatham Asset Management , acquired two-thirds of Canada's Postmedia , the publisher of The National Post, The Vancouver Sun and several other major Canadian papers, by trading a portion of the money it was owed for the majority ownership stake.

Private Hedge Fund Print and Digital 1. Currently US newsrooms are using this service. Non profit cooperative. While its own website counts on average The AP Network locations worldwide -9 regional editing hubs countries -Unrivaled state footprint with a reporter in every U. More than half the world's population see s an AP story every day. CEO Kevin Mowbray is the owner of 1. Publicly Traded Print and Digital 1. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity.

In her twenty-five-year career, she has overseen some of the leading academic publishing and data analytics companies in the world including CEO of Macmillan Science and Education, where she launched Digital Science and was CEO of Web of Science Group.

Reuters News employs around 2, journalists and photojournalists in about locations worldwide. It has an unsual funding structure. Reuters has also now added a paywall. Longstanding bylaws that govern Reuters make a takeover of the newsroom nearly impossible. A so-called poison pill provision prevents any one entity from owning more than 15 percent of the news operation.

Another provision gives the directors of the trust that governs Reuters the power to veto or endorse any takeover. Publicly Traded Digital Only Reuters news reported in that it reaches 1 billion people worldwide through multiple platforms.

They have over TV broadcasters in countries, including prominent networks and government-sponsored broadcasters, 1, newspaper clients, including 13 of the top 15 newspapers globally, 41 million unique monthly visitors to Reuters.

Rival Univision has half as many. Through all its YouTube channels, Telemundo has a combined 35 million subscribers across its portfolio.

Hispanic TV households in markets through 28 local stations, 51 affiliates and its national feed. The Daily Beast began without advertising and has gradually introduced ads since early , founded in by former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Bro wn that primarily aggregates content from across the web. Publicly Traded Digital Only Based in London, England, the paper has its core editorial offices across Britain, the United States, and continental Europe.

Private employee-owned, Japan's largest media company. Print and Digital 1. Founded in by John Tang, an Atlanta-based follower of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, Epoch Times is funded by Falun Gong, a religious group that has been called a doomsday cult.

Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong's outreach work are done together with Shen Yun, a dance group known for its ubiquitous advertising and unusual performances. Its leaders opposed homosexuality, feminism and popular music, and claimed to be a god who can float and walk on the wall.

Non Profit Digital and Print Epoch Times sells subscriptions in dozens of countries and makes some content available free on its website. Massive mailings have been reportedly delivered to households across the US and Canada, mostly in majority-white rural areas. Two Canadian Post workers were suspended in for refusing to deliver the paper in Saskatchewan, Canada.

It gets about 5. It occasionally mails out free, unsolicited sample editions through Canada Post as advertising mail. Republican A-listers appeared on its YouTube shows, right-wing pundits in its print pages. Its web traffic spiked. He is a member of Mr. According to Fol io in , Ruddy owned a 60 percent stake with the rest owned by Scaife. In , they launched Newsmax TV. He oversaw investments and acquisitions and the sale of The Washington Post. Barr as president. Slate has Our "support is designed for nonprofit news organizations with ambitious plans to grow their revenue and programs that support informed communities, plus targeted early stage investments in leaders and communities that present a unique opportunity to change the local news landscape where they operate.

Non Profit Digital Only They donate to digital news startups as a portfolio so not really a news site onto itself. If it's helpful, the total population served is 29M the people who benefit from the journalism of our grantees because they live in those communities. Funded by Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the bulk of funding coming from donors. Hagler Foun dation.

Fisch, the Edith M. Federally funded through Corporation for Public Broadcasting and donors TV and Digital , average prime time viewers. Harris and Jim VandeHei. In , the company endured a dramatic split with a coterie of top personnel, including Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz, who would go on to create a highly influential competing news start-up, Axios.

Private For Profit Print and Digital , digital and , Sunday print subscribers and 25,, self reported average monthly unique visits. Marc Benioff is the founder of SalesForce who now owns Slack. It is the world's largest owner of sports teams and sports events. Under the AEG Presents brand, it is the world's second largest presenter of live music and entertainment events after Live Nation.

The Washington Examiner is an American conservative news website and weekly magazine based in Washington, D. Famously reclusive, Philip Anschutz who also owns the Washington Examiner and AEG entertainment — he has given only two interviews in the past 30 years — the year-old has never discussed how he ended up owning two money-losing publications or what he wants to do with them, but his intentions seem clear.

Founded in , the Standard, which he absorbed into the Examiner, provided its first owner, Rupert Murdoch, with a Washington platform that bashed the White House during the Clinton years and enjoyed a privileged position during the presidency of George W.

Bush, when it became one of the most aggressive champions of the war in Iraq. Private For Profit Former newspaper and now magazine and digital site Self- reported 22 nillion monthly unique visitors, 90K print readers , Media Kit.

However, 13M on average monthly visits SimilarWeb April The entitity is called Penske Media. In , Penske Media Corporation bought Variety. Two years later, W.