Classifica del Guardian dei 50 uomini più influenti nel settore dei media nel 2014
1) Larry Page
co-founder, chief executive, Google
2) Mark Zuckerberg
founder, chief executive, Facebook
3) Tim Cook
chief executive, Apple
4) Tony Hall
director general, BBC
5) Jeff Bezos
founder, chief executive, Amazon
6) Dick Costolo
chief executive, Twitter
7) Rupert Murdoch
head of 21st Century Fox and News Corp
8) Lenny Henry
actor, writer, comedian
9) Paul Dacre/Martin Clarke
editor, Daily Mail (Dacre), publisher, Mail Online (Clarke)
10) Taylor Swift
musician
11) Martin Sorrell
chief executive, WPP Group
12) Danny Cohen
director, BBC Television
13) Jeremy Darroch
chief executive, Sky; chair, Sky Deutschland
14) Adam Crozier
chief executive, ITV
15) Peter Fincham
director of television, ITV
16) Sajid Javid
secretary of state for culture, media and sport
17) Rona Fairhead
chair, BBC Trust
18) Simon Cowell
presenter, music and TV producer
19) Sophie Turner Laing
chief executive, Endemol/Shine/Core
20) PewDiePie
YouTuber
21) Ted Sarandos
chief content officer, Netflix
22) Gavin Patterson
chief executive, BT
23) Alan Rusbridger
editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media
24) Mike Darcey
chief executive, News UK
25) Charlotte Moore
controller, BBC1
26) Shane Smith
co-founder, chief executive, Vice Media
27) David Dinsmore
editor, the Sun
28) David Abraham
chief executive,
Channel 4
29) Nick Robinson
political editor, BBC
30) Jonah Peretti
founder, chief executive, BuzzFeed
31) Evan Spiegel
co-founder, chief executive, Snapchat
32) John Fallon
chief executive, Pearson
33) James Harding
director of news and current affairs, BBC
34) Viscount Rothermere
chair, Daily Mail & General Trust
35) James Purnell
director of strategy and digital, BBC
36) Lionel Barber
editor, Financial Times
37) Russell Brand
comedian, actor, author, activist
38) John Witherow
editor, the Times
39) Murdoch MacLennan
chief executive, Telegraph Media Group
40) Jay Hunt
chief creative officer, Channel 4
41) Daniel Ek
founder, chief executive, Spotify
42) Tim Davie
chief executive, BBC Worldwide; director, Global
43) David Lynn
president, UK, Viacom International Media Networks
44) John Malone
chair, Liberty Media and Liberty Global
45) David Joseph
chair, chief executive, Universal Music UK
46) Helen Boaden
director, BBC radio
47) Susan Wojcicki
chief executive, YouTube
48) Sally Wainwright
television writer
49) John Whittingdale
chair, Commons culture, media and sport select committee
50) Benedict Cumberbatch
actor
Il The Guardian ha stilato la classifica dei 100 uomini più influenti nel settore dei media nel 2014. In testa di questa classifica troviamo niente di meno che i magnati del web, con in prima fila davanti a tutti quanti Larry Page, l’amministratore delegato di Google. A ruota Page è seguito da Mark Zuckerberg, CEO e co-fondatore di Facebook, che per la prima volta entra nella speciale chart. Al terzo posto c’è Tim Cook, amministratore delegato di Apple.
In sesta posizione si trova ancora Dick Costolo, il capo di Twitter, dietro a Tony Hall (direttore generale della BBC) e Jeff Bezos, CEO di Amazon.
Seguono, tra gli altri, il magnate dell’editoria Rupert Murdoch al settimo posto; il produttore dei One Direction Simon Cowell al 18esimo posto, l’attore Benedict Cumberbatch al 50esimo, la cantante Taylor Swift al decimo, l’attore Russell Brand al 37esimo, e il CEO di Spotify Daniel Ek al 41esimo.
Qui di seguito vi lasciamo con le prime 50 posizioni della classifica.
