Newspapers and publishingEdit
- Tom Allon, publisher of City & State, former co-owner of Manhattan Media LLC[127]
- Walter Annenberg (1908–2002), founder of Triangle Publications, Inc. (the Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide)[128]
- Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), founder of TFH Publications[129]
- Jason Binn (1968–), founder of Niche Media (Hamptons, Aspen Peak, Gotham) and DuJour Media[130]
- Paul Block (1875–1941), president of Block Communications and publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade[131][132]
- Bennett Cerf (1898–1971), co-founder of Random House[133]
- Jerry Finkelstein (1916–2012), former publisher of the New York Law Journal and the Hill[134][135]
- Bart Fles (1902–1989), Dutch-American former literary agent and publisher[136]
- Jane Friedman, co-founder of Open Road Integrated Media, former president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers LLC[137]
- Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), Luxembourgish-born inventor and magazine publisher, founder of Experimenter Publishing (Amazing Stories, Electrical Experimenter, Radio News); Hugo Awardeponym[138]
- Milton Glaser (1929–2020), co-founder of the New York Magazine, creator of the "I Love New York" logo[139]
- Al Goldstein (1936–2013), co-founder of Screw[140]
- Martin Goodman (1908–1992), founder of Timely Publications (later Marvel Comics)[141]
- Jonathan Greenblatt (1970–), former CEO of GOOD Worldwide, Inc.[142]
- Hank Greenspun (1909–1989), publisher of the Las Vegas Sun[143]
- Alfred Harvey (1913–1994), comic book publisher, founder of Harvey Comics, Inc. (Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost)[144]
- Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (1921–2017), publisher of the Chattanooga Times[145]
- Morton L. Janklow (1930–), co-founder of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, the largest literary agency in the world[146]
- Bruce Judson (1958–), former General Manager at Time Inc. New Media, co-founder of Time Warner's banner ad website Pathfinder[147]
- Jonathan Karp (1963/1964–), publisher of Simon & Schuster[137]
- Don Katz (1952–), founder of Audible[148]
- Larry Kirshbaum (1944–), former chief of publishing for Amazon Publishing and CEO of the Time Warner Book Group[149]
- Donald S. Klopfer (1902–1986), co-founder of Random House[133]
- Alfred (1892–1984) and Blanche Knopf (1894–1966), founders of publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.[150]
- Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993), Mad[151][152]
- Bruce Levenson, (1949–) co-founder of the United Communications Group (UCG), former co-owner of NBA's Atlanta Hawks[153]
- Jay Levin, founder of LA Weekly[154]
- Ross Levinsohn, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, CEO of Tribune Interactive (the digital arm of tronc), former president of Fox Interactive[155]
- Jack Liebowitz (1900–2000), Russian-born former co-owner of National Allied Publications (later DC Comics)[156][157]
- Peter Mayer (1936–2018), British-born co-founder of the Overlook Press, and former CEO of Penguin Books[158]
- Donald Newhouse (1929–), owner of Advance Publications, Inc.[159]
- S. I. Newhouse Sr. (1895–1979), founder of Advance Publications, Inc., the parent company of Condé Nast (GQ, Pitchfork, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W, Wired) and American City Business Journals (ACBJ)[159]
- Adolph Ochs (1985–1935), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891–1968), Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1926–2012), the New York Times[160][161]
- Norman Pearlstine (1942–), media executive, CCO at Bloomberg L.P. and Time Inc., former executive editor of the Wall Street Journal[162]
- David J. Pecker (1951–), chairman and CEO of American Media, Inc. (National Enquirer, Us Weekly, Star, Flex, Globe, Men's Fitness)[163]
- Marty Peretz (1938–), The New Republic[164]
- Warren H. Phillips (1926–2019), former long-time CEO of Dow Jones & Company[165][166]
- Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), Hungarian-born former publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World; known for pioneering yellow journalism and establishing the Pulitzer Prizes[167]
- Axel Rosin (1907–2007), German-born president of the Book of the Month Club[168]
- Arthur M. Sackler (1913–1987), former publisher of the Medical Tribune and chairman of Medical Press, Inc.; member of the Sackler family[169]
- M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), Austrian-born co-founder of Simon & Schuster[137]
- Leon Shimkin (1907–1988), former executive and partner at Simon & Schuster[170][171]
- Sime (1873–1933), Sidne (1898–1950), Syd Silverman (1932–2017), former owners and publishers of Variety[172]
- Richard L. Simon (1899–1960), co-founder of Simon & Schuster; member of the Simon family[137]
- Reuben Sturman (1924–1997), former adult magazine publisher and co-founder of Doc Johnson Enterprises[173][174]
- Joshua Topolsky (1977–), co-founder of Vox Media, Inc. (the Verge, SB Nation, Polygon, Curbed), founder of digital media company The Outline[175]
- Helen Valentine (1893–1986), founder of Seventeen magazine[176][177]
- Jann Wenner (1946–), co-founder of the Rolling Stone[178]
- Richard Saul Wurman (1935–), co-founder of TED[179][180]
- William Bernard Ziff Sr. (1898–1953), co-founder of Ziff Davis[181]
- Mortimer Zuckerman (1937–), Canadian-American publisher of U.S. News and World Report, former owner of the New York Daily News, the Atlantic and Fast Company, co-founder of Boston Properties, Inc.[182][183]
