Media Ownership -- Who's controlling what we see, hear, and ... gasp! ... believe?!?

I decided to start this tally since I couldn't find one place on the great big world wide web which tracked media ownership... Also, I wanted to challenge myself to collect and assemble the data for my own knowledge.

Rupert Murdoch

• Dow Jones & Co. (under negotiations as of July 2007)¹


• Fox Television²


• News Corporation²


• The NY Post²


• HarperCollins²


• British Sky Broadcasting²

??? Malone

• News Corporation²


• Discovery Communications²


• Court TV²


• MacNeil-Lehrer Productions²

Sumner Redstone

• CBS¹


• Viacom¹


• Paramount Pictures¹


• National Amusements Theatre Chain¹


• MTV¹


• Showtime¹

Steve Jobs (Apple Corp.)

• iTunes¹


• iPod¹


• iPhone¹

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Footnotes
¹MSNBC.com report
²Columbia Journalism Review