THE SHAPERS - New York Media 200

"The Shapers" is a list of 200 New Yorkers, selected by CJR, who help shape the national media agenda. We hope these features give you some insight into the architecture and dimensions of the New York media. Some familiar New York Times names, like Maureen Dowd, Tony Lewis, and William Safire, are not on the "Shapers" list because it includes only people who work in New York. People associated with Columbia are also excluded. So you won't see James Stewart, Floyd Abrams, or Al Gore. We know there will be some disagreement with and criticism of "The Shapers." But, well, it's a list.
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MOGULS
They Run The Companies. They Have The Power

FRANK BENNACK/final years of steady Hearst stewardship.

CATHIE BLACK/leadership and salesmanship boost Hearst.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG/large ambitions, including news.

LOU BOCCARDI/steering AP to new role in digital age.

STEVE CASE/AOL on top in merger; sharing power for now.

ANDREW HEYWARD/faces on-air succession issues at CBS News.

PETER KANN/Dow Jones c.e.o. keeps eye on Journal.

ANDY LACK/top-ranked NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC in his domain.

GERALD LEVIN/he's a survivor but it's AOL's ship now.

RUPERT MURDOCH/global entrepreneur; Fox TV on the rise.

DONALD NEWHOUSE/billionaire oversees family papers.

S.I. NEWHOUSE/billionaire brother who runs Condé Nast.

RICHARD PARSONS/another chief in AOL-TW mix.

SUMNER REDSTONE/still in control at Viacom-CBS.

RICK SMITH/he is a solid, long-running Newsweek c.e.o.

HOWARD STRINGER/made deal with Sony, now living with it.

ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR./number one news organization;
his NYT facing e-challenge and editorial succession.

DAVID WESTIN/every day at ABC brings a new adventure.

BOB WRIGHT/now in his 15th year as top-rated NBC c.e.o.

MORT ZUCKERMAN/it's his money and those are his opinions.

 

NEWSPAPERS
The Agenda Setters, Starting With the Times

STEVE ADLER/WSJ investigative editor, now deputy m.e.

XANA ANTUNES/new editor; but same old Post.

WAYNE BARRETT/Voice houses tough investigative reporter.

FELICITY BARRINGER and ALEX KUCZYNSKI/bad news? Times duo will find it.

ROBERT BARTLEY/WSJ's conservative voice since 1972.

GERALD BOYD/seasoned executive; pioneering work on race.

SUSAN CHIRA/recasting the Times's Week in Review.

RICHARD COHEN/insightful Washington Post columnist in NY.

STANLEY CROUCH/unpredictable Daily News columnist.

DON FORST/keeps up with 20-somethings at Village Voice.

TOM FRIEDMAN/NYT eloquent foreign policy analyst.

MICHAEL GOODWIN/makes the Daily News run.

BOB HERBERT/prominent NYT voice for disadvantaged.

DAN HERTZBERG/Journal go-to guy; newsroom leader.

RICHARD JOHNSON/everybody reads Page Six.

PETER KAPLAN/knows his audience in irreverent Observer.

MICHIKO KAKUTANI/tough NYT critic, the queen of books.

BILL KELLER/number two in Times newsroom; what's next?

ED KOSNER/magazine techniques improve Daily News.

JOE LELYVELD/innovation amid tradition at the Times.

STEVE LIPIN/WSJ expert, call him "the M&A King."

MIKE LUPICA/word for word, still best in sports.

TONY MARRO/top editor, top paper; will NY Newsday re-emerge?

ADAM MOSS/a real magazine editor within a newspaper.

PHIL MUSHNICK/leads Post's passionate sports report.

NEW YORK TIMES PAGE ONE TEAM/Lelyveld-Keller choose, then Bodkin, Boyd, Geddes, Siegal, Whitney do it.

LES PAYNE/outspoken columnist, top editor for Newsday.

JOHN PODHORETZ/Murdoch himself couldn't get it right-er.

FRANK RICH/when he writes, still among the most insightful.

TINA ROSENBERG/gifted NYT opinion writer.

AMITY SHLAES/darling of free marketeers; now at FT.

MIKE SILVERMAN/AP m.e. sets agenda from general desk.

LIZ SMITH/still in place but the opposition is gaining.

PAUL STEIGER/steady, creative hand shapes the Journal.

PHILIP WEISS/perhaps the wildest of Observer gang.

JIM WILLSE/Star-Ledger, how good can it get?

MATT WINKLER/making Bloomberg a real news operation.

 

TELEVISION-RADIO
What They See is What You Get

ROGER AILES/his Fox News Channel is changing cable news.

ROONE ARLEDGE/wisdom on high now, but ABC still listens.

MARIA BARTIROMO and JOE KERNAN/will Money Honey and Kahuna ride out the roller coaster at CNBC?

BRADLEY/ROONEY/STAHL/WALLACE/KROFT/the faces of 60 Minutes, and they just keep shining.

TOM BROKAW/NBC's top dog in ratings and around New York.

DICK EBERSOL/NBC's sports guru, but do we need the XFL?

JEFF GREENFIELD/CNN's political wise man.

DON HEWITT/still ticking at 60 Minutes.

DON IMUS/he'll sell your wares.

PETER JENNINGS/majestic millennium; a little ordinary now.

PAT KIERNAN/unique wake-up on NY One.

MATT LAUER and KATIE COURIC/best in the morning.

DAVID LETTERMAN/monologues are biting commentary.

RUSH LIMBAUGH/anti-New Yorker broadcasts from NY.

TIM McCARVER/ex-baseball player with major league insights.

PHYLLIS MCGRADY/ABC secret weapon; enterprise specials.

LORNE MICHAELS/SNL's best presidential parody ever.

BILL MOYERS/nobody's better at serious television.

JANE PAULEY/the familiar face at Dateline NBC.

DAN RATHER/off the wall election night, but all journalist.

GERALDO RIVERA/still plugging despite ups and downs.

CHARLIE ROSE/knight of his own chat-filled roundtable.

DIANE SAWYER/helping ABC morning rebound.

DICK SCHAAP/perfected TV sports interview; now, a book.

NEAL SHAPIRO/the brains behind NBC's Dateline.

HOWARD STERN/do we have to? . . . he's still going strong.

BARBARA WALTERS/It's the persistence and hard work, stupid.

BETSY WEST/60 Minutes II; her latest CBS success.

 

MAGAZINES
Manhattan is Truly Their Capital

WALTER ANDERSON/under the radar; Parade flourishes.

KEITH BLANCHARD/Maxim's sex formula keeps working.

MYRNA BLYTH/makes Meredith magazines work.

MARIE BRENNER/still takes on the big ones for Vanity Fair.

STEVE BRILL/Content is just one of many balls he has in air.

TINA BROWN/will she vanish into a Hollywood black hole?

KEVIN BUCKLEY/Playboy is just one of his triumphs.

BETSY CARTER/launched My Generation; facing age head-on.

GRAYDON CARTER/Vanity Fair, gossipy but compelling writing.

JOHN MACK CARTER/still listened to at Hearst.

BILL COLSON/keeps Sports Illustrated rolling.

ART COOPER/old pro keeps GQ competitive.

FRANK DE FORD/talking more on NPR; writing less.

DOMINIC DUNNE/perfect match with Vanity Fair.

BARBARA EPSTEIN and ROBERT SILVERS/still The NY Review.

DAVID GRANGER/brings new life to Esquire.

MONIQUE GREENWOOD/Essence, magazine and business.

JIM HOGE/making some news at Foreign Affairs.

ROBERT HUGHES/who is Time's super-critic feuding with now?

WALTER ISAACSON/new role, new owner.

JOE KLEIN/top political insights; just don't be anonymous again.

LEWIS LAPHAM/Harper's remains an intellectual meeting place.

ELLEN LEVINE/godmother of women's magazines; fixing GH.

CAROLINE MILLER/New York searching for glory days.

JOHN PAPANEK/ESPN-The Magazine; new ideas work.

NORMAN PEARLSTINE/what will be his role with AOL?

PICK SIX: NEW YORKER WRITERS/William Finnegan,
Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Philip Gourevitch,
Hendrik Hertzberg, Jeffrey Toobin.

ANNA QUINDLEN/column in Newsweek; books too.

JOSH QUITTNER/Time technology guru and columnist.

STEVE REDDICLIFFE/don't underestimate power of TV Guide.

RICK REILLY and GARY SMITH/SI's top writers.

DAVID REMNICK/leads New Yorker renewal; writers' heaven.

CARLITO RODRIGUEZ/The Source; hip hop's top magazine.

ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN/CosmoGirl; spin-off a hit with teens.

STEVE SHEPARD/Business Week editor just knows how to do it.

MARTHA STEWART/put her picture on cover every time; it worked.

JOEL STEIN/Time's trendy wiseguy; fame is fleeting.

CALVIN TRILLIN/he makes us laugh and think.

JAMES TRUMAN/now if we knew what he really did.

CAROL WALLACE/in the People tradition of great editing.

JACOB WEISBERG/Slate's man in NY.

JANN WENNER/his Rolling Stone is still rolling along.

MARK WHITAKER/settling in as Newsweek's top editor.

OPRAH WINFREY/not in New York but her magazine is; it's a hit.

ANNA WINTOUR/battles for the glamour award at Vogue.

MICHAEL WOLFF/New York's media writer fires big guns.

STEVE YAHN/hard-edge news updgrading E&P.

 

BOOKS:
Authors & Editors & Agents. NY is Still Their Place

KEN AULETTA/media guru now taking on Microsoft.

ROBERT CARO/when do we get the next LBJ part?

JOAN DIDION/coming up: a collection of essays.

ANITA DIGGS/unique multicultural appeal.

JOHN GREGORY DUNNE/observer of scabrous mores.

MORGAN ENTREKIN/downtown hipster has the Beat.

JASON EPSTEIN/still casts a long shadow over book industry.

JONATHAN GALASSI/erudite heir apparent at Farrar Straus.

NAN GRAHAM/literary midwife to Frank McCourt.

PHYLLIS GRANN/Putnam gives us Clancy and Dickens.

DAVID HALBERSTAM/next he'll look at US foreign policy.

MORT JANKLOW and LYNN NESBITT/agent partners in work and life.

LARRY KRAMER/last angry man working on autobiography.

ALICE MAYHEW/edits Bob Woodward and Stephen Ambrose.

PETER OSNOS/serious political books keep flowing.

ANDRE SCHIFFRIN/the John Reed of book publishing.

AMANDA URBAN/super-agent list includes Bret Ellis,
Tobias Wolff.

ANDREW WYLIE/clients include Hitchens, Rushdie, and Gore.

TOM WOLFE/fiction now; but still a journalist.

 

OTHERS
These Don't Fit in Any Category

JAMES GOODALE/former Times lawyer has mini-media show.

PICK SIX: HALL OF FAMERS/Jimmy Breslin, William Buckley, Harry Evans, Pete Hamill, Norman Mailer, Abe Rosenthal.

NANCY MAYNARD/a solid voice of reason and experience.

THE REAL POWER/Doug Arthur, William Drewry, Kevin Gruneich, Tom Wolzien, Jessica Reif-Cohen, Henry Blodgett; Wall Street media analysts decide fates.

STEVE RATTNER/ex-journalist; heads media investment firm.

GENE ROBERTS and ANN COOPER/the team that's building Committee to Protect Journalists into a global factor.

TOM ROGERS/Primedia chief expanding; ready to deal.

JAY ROSEN/civic journalism argument stirred the news world.

HOWARD RUBENSTEIN/manages the news for politicians.

PEGGY SIEGEL/prime party-giver; you should see her list.

GARY TRUDEAU/cartoonist; Doonesbury walks NY streets.