Been doing a lot of reading on successful media personalities. A few stories that stuck out today:
Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal, from his Wikipedia page: continue reading...
It’s always very easy to knock on established, successful media moguls, but I must say, as a media guy myself and content producer, Sumner Redstone’s staunch defense of content and copyright is a breath of fresh air.
He said a lot of things today that were true (“It seems fairly clear that advertising will for the most part pay the way on the internet, just as it has on traditional media platforms. …I think in all the public clamor in all the doomed fortunes of traditional media, people miss the greater trends at work”), one thing that certainly stuck out was the following: continue reading...