It’s going to take a bit of time. Please bear with me through the process.

🔺 Publicly traded

🔺💲 Publicly traded but mostly privately owned

💲 Privately owned

🔷 Non for profit and/or trust ran by board of directors (Note: I suggest taking a long look at who the board of directors are, especially AP and NPR)

There are a lot of Brits running a lot of American (or thought to be American) media groups, I’m going to include quite a few British publications. There is also an American on the BBC board.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    🔷 The Guardian

    ◾ The Scott Trust Limited is the British company that owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian and The Observer as well as various other media businesses in the UK. In 2008, it replaced the Scott Trust, which had owned The Guardian since 1936.

    The company is responsible for appointing the editor of The Guardian (and those of the group’s other main newspapers) but, apart from enjoining them to continue the paper’s editorial policy on “the same lines and in the same spirit as heretofore”, it has a policy of not interfering in their decisions.

    The Scott Trust Limited, with the intention being that the original trust would be wound up. Dame Liz Forgan, chair of the Scott Trust, reassured staff that the purposes of the new company remained the same as under the previous arrangements.

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    ◾ Chief Editor Katharine Sophie Viner

    (born January 1971) is a British journalist and playwright. Viner previously headed The Guardian’s web operations in Australia and the United States, before being selected for the editor-in-chief’s position.

    For work experience, Viner joined Cosmopolitan, a women’s monthly magazine. After three years at The Sunday Times, working as a commissioning editor and writer for its magazine. Viner joined The Guardian in 1997. Following a period on the staff of the women’s page, she became editor of the Saturday Weekend supplement in 1998. She became features editor in 2006 and deputy editor in 2008 at the same time as Ian Katz. Viner edited the Saturday edition of The Guardian from 2008 to 2012.

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    ◾ The Scott Trust Board of Directors

    • Chair of Trust-Ole Jacob Sunde-He has been associated with the Schibsted Media Group ASA for 30 years, being elected to the Board in 2000 and serving as Chair since 2002. He is also the Chair of the Tinius Trust, and a member of the Board of Visitors at Columbia University, School of Journalism. He is the founder and chair of Formuesforvaltning AS private bank (Formue)
    • Tracy Corrigan-She was previously chief strategy officer of Dow Jones and has held a range of senior editorial positions including editor in chief of the** Wall Street Journal Europe**, editor of the Financial Times’ Lex column and editor of FT.com. Tracy is currently a non-executive director of Barclays Bank UK PLC, Direct Line Insurance Group PLC, and Domino’s Pizza Group PLC.
    • David Olusoga-Journalist and documentary maker.
    • Stuart Proffitt-He has been a publishing director at Penguin Books since 1998, and before that he was the publisher of the trade division at HarperCollins for six years.
    • Matthew Ryder-He is a barrister and founder member of Matrix chambers in London, specialising in human rights, media, data and information, crime and regulatory law. He was deputy mayor of London for social integration between 2016 and 2018 overseeing the mayor’s community engagement, diversity and equality work, and use of data.
    • Vivian Schiller-Previously she has held multiple high-profile media roles including head of news at Twitter, general manager of NYTimes dot com and president and CEO of National Public Radio.
    • Russell Scott-Previously he held multiple senior roles in publishing, digital and broadcast sectors including content director of The Football League, commercial director of Northcliffe media and managing director of fish4, a digital classified joint venture between 5 major UK regional press groups.
    • Haroon Siddique-He has worked at the Guardian for over 15 years and is currently its legal affairs correspondent, previously serving as a reporter and senior reporter in the Guardian’s newsroom.
    • Margaret Simons-She is an award-winning journalist, author, and journalism academic.
    • Nabiha Syed-Nabiha is chief executive officer of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit. Prior to launching The Markup, Nabiha spent a decade as an acclaimed media lawyer working at the frontier of technology and newsgathering, including at the New York Times and more recently at BuzzFeed where she was associate general counsel.
    • Stephen Godsell-He was group general counsel and company secretary at PA Group (formerly Press Association and check out who they are), and has held senior positions at The Economist Group and Clifford Chance. Stephen is a board director and trustee of The Economist Educational Foundation, a member of the Joint Committee on Legal Deposit and a freeman of the City of London.

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