Media proprietor
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A media proprietor or media mogul refers to a successful entrepreneur or businessman who controls, through personal ownership or via a dominant position in any mass media related company or enterprise consumed by a large number of individuals. Those with significant control, ownership, and influence of a large company in the mass media may also be called a tycoon, baron, or business magnate.
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Deceased
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
- Walt Disney (founder/CEO of The Walt Disney Company)
- Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
- William Randolph Hearst
- Alfred Hugenberg
- Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet
- Michael Jackson (founder/CEO of The Michael Jackson Company LLC; $6.7 billion) (2009)
- Kerry Packer
- Roberto Marinho
- Jan Wejchert
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