 | This is a partial list of notable Jewish American business executives in the media industry. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. |
| | This is a partial list of notable Jewish American business executives in the media industry. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. |
Geffen Records is an American record label, founded in 1980 by David Geffen. Originally a music subsidiary of the now-defunct Geffen Pictures, it is owned by the Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) faction of Universal Music Group (UMG).
Frank Yablans was an American studio executive, film producer, and screenwriter. Yablans served as an executive at Paramount Pictures, including President of the studio, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sidney Jay Sheinberg was an American businessman, lawyer and entertainment executive. He served as president and CEO of MCA Inc. and Universal Studios for over 40 years.
Irving Azoff is an American businessman, who is chairman of Full Stop Management, a company that represents recording artists. During the course of his career, he has worked as an agent, personal manager, concert promoter, movie producer, independent record label owner, merchandiser, music publisher, and CEO of a record label.
Morris Mike Medavoy is an American film producer and business executive. He is the co-founder of Orion Pictures, the former chairman of TriStar Pictures, the former head of production for United Artists, and the current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures.
Terence Steven Semel is an American corporate executive who was the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated from 2001 to 2007. Previously, he spent 24 years at Warner Bros., where he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer.
Alan Frederick Horn is an American entertainment industry executive. Horn became president and COO of Warner Bros. from 1999 to 2012. Horn next served as the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure at Disney, Horn also served as the chief creative officer from 2019 to 2021. Horn agreed to depart from Disney, effective December 31, 2021.
Sony Entertainment, Inc. is an American entertainment company. Division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation and managed by its American subsidiary, established in 2012 to oversee the corporation's ventures in film, television and music.
Michael Mark Lynton is a businessman and current chairman of Snap Inc. He previously served as chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2017, Lynton stepped down as CEO of Sony Entertainment to become Chairman of Snap, makers of the Snapchat mobile app. On February 12, 2019, he was named as chairman of Warner Music Group.
Thomas Edgar Rothman is an American businessman, film producer, film executive and current chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. In this role, Rothman oversees all of the studio's motion picture production and distribution activities worldwide, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Classics, 3000 Pictures, Sony Pictures International Productions, Stage 6 Films and AFFIRM Films. Rothman joined Sony Pictures in late 2013 as chairman of TriStar and in 2015 was promoted to Chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, followed by the release in 2017 and 2018 of titles such as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Peter Rabbit, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Under Rothman's leadership, the Motion Picture Group was returned to strong profitability and experienced several of its most profitable years in history with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Little Women. Driven by tentpoles such as Spider-Man: Far From Home, Jumanji: The Next Level, and Bad Boys for Life, fiscal year 2020 was the film studio's best in over a decade in terms of both ultimate profitability and operating income.
Nancy Tellem is the chief media officer and executive chairwoman of Eko, a start-up which has created an online platform. She is the onetime entertainment and digital media president of Microsoft Xbox Entertainment Studios, and a former president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group, formerly CBS Entertainment Network and CBS Studios. She is co-founder and CEO of BasBlue, Inc, a nonprofit organization.
Doug Morris is an American record executive. He served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Universal Music Group from 1995 to 2011, as well as Sony Music Entertainment from 2011 to 2017. He founded the record label 12Tone in 2018, where he's since served as CEO.
Robert Warren Pittman is an American businessman. Pittman was the CEO of MTV Networks and the cofounder and programmer who led the team that created MTV, and is the cofounder of iHeartMedia and Casa Dragones Tequila. Pittman joined iHeartMedia's predecessor company Clear Channel in November 2010 as an investor and the company's Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms, was named CEO in 2011 and chairman in 2013. Pittman led Clear Channel's transformation into iHeartMedia, Inc. in September 2014 to reflect its new multiplatform business and expanded mission. Pittman has also been the former chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor, CEO of AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate and Time Warner Enterprises, and COO of America Online, Inc. and AOL Time Warner.
Barry M. Meyer is an American television producer who served as Chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Jeff Shell is an American media executive who served as the CEO for NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, from 2019 to 2023.
Service Sunday, January 31, 9:45am at "The Riverside,"
Edward and his wife, Doris Fleischman, were nonpracticing, highly assimilated, wealthy German-American Jews, and Anne grew up a self-professed hothouse flower on New York's Upper East Side.
Bernbach co-founded in 1949 with partners Mac Dane and Ned Doyle, came to be defined by its ethnicity ("two Jews and an Irishman [Doyle]" went the joke), ...
we [Wigle/Fried] met Lee Garfinkel, then CCO of DDB NY. We totally hit it off. He loved our work and the yarmulkes and said, "I'm a Brooklyn Jew myself."
Mr. Kempner is a member of Temple Emanu-El of Closter, and although he is not particularly observant, he feels deeply Jewish, he said.
It was a good choice for a Jewish boy from Northeast Philly
Rubenstein, who is Jewish, was born in Brooklyn, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and dropped out of Harvard Law School.
the founder of the Spiegel company, Chicagoan Joseph Spiegel, was the son of a German Jewish rabbi who came to the U.S. in 1848
Lester Wunderman, a son of Jewish immigrants, was born in the Bronx on June 22, 1920. His father, who was from Austria, worked in the fur trade. After his death, Mr. Wunderman's mother, who was born in Romania, did clerical work to provide for her sons.
Mr. Zyman is of Mexican Jewish heritage and was born in Mexico City.
In 1946, Abramson and Jewish comedy producer Jerry Blaine launched Jubilee Records
I'm not terribly religious, but Jewish identity is really really really important to me.
He grew up with "not a drop of music" in a middle-class Jewish household in upper Manhattan
One of the promoters of that concert was Michael Lang, now 65, a Jewish guy from Brooklyn.
Four Jews organized the Woodstock Festival: Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman
Lewis Merenstein was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into a German Jewish immigrant family on October 23, 1934
Art Garfunkel (...) attended Pearlman's bar mitzvah in June 1967
"I'm a type-A Jew and a workaholic," says Phillips, 63, who hasn't slowed down a millisecond.
"Somehow the Jewish kid ended up with three Christian branded events," he shakes his head.
his [Apatow's] grandfather, Bob Shad, "[...] was a funny Jewish kid from New York who loved jazz"
Bob is from a wealthy family of Jewish garment manufacturers in Elberon, N.J.
His father, Ben, an immigrant Russian Jew, was a Brooklyn ironworker deeply in debt.
Cooder's co-producer was a short Jewish guy roughly my own age, Lenny Waronker, a vice president of Warner Brothers, head of the A&R department, and son of the infamous president of Liberty Records from the 1950s
Like his fellow record company owners, the Bihari brothers in Los Angeles (for whom he once worked) and the Chess brothers in Chicago, Hyman "Hy" Weiss was a Jewish immigrant who tapped into a postwar black music market that was largely ignored by both radio and the leading music companies.
His working-class Jewish family struggled to get by in impoverished circumstances and placed their hopes in young Walter, whose intelligence promised a chance at upward mobility.
One thing that has changed is personal - there isn't anti-Semitism in the profession," Mr. Klopfer said. "In the 20s and 30s, Bennett and I and other Jewish publishers were looked down upon.
I finished the book in 1941 and sent it off to Barthold Fles, a New York literary agent who had been recommended to me. Mr. Fles was a Jew and in March, 1941, Jews were pretty sensitive about heroic German naval officers. To say that Mr. Fles was insulted was the understatement of the year.
Glaser frequently thinks of the meaning of his life, and his Jewish background plays a part in that. His parents were observant "up to a point," he said. He had a bar mitzva but is not observant
(...) it's basically the story of my [Jonny Harvey's] grand-uncle Alfred, who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family in New York
Levien, who is married to Jason Levien — co-chairman and CEO of the pro soccer club D.C. United — is an alumna of BBYO (B'nai B'rith Youth Organization) and remains active with the Jewish youth group as a member of its advisory council for the Anita M. Perlman Women's Leadership Initiative.
Solomon Isadore Newhouse was the eldest of eight children of Jewish immigrants. [...] His father, Meier Neuhaus--he later Americanized his name to Meyer Newhouse--was an immigrant from Vitebsk [Belarus], near the border of eastern Russia, and his mother, Rose Arenfeldt, was from Austria.
He described himself in a memoir as a "skinny, timid, unathletic Jewish kid."
Arthur and his brothers [ Mortimer and Raymond ], the children of Jewish immigrants from Galicia and Poland, grew up in Brooklyn during the Depression.
Attending St. George's School in Newport, R.I., (...) and leaving after his junior year because he found being a Jew there mildly uncomfortable
Sturman's rags-to-riches-to-racketeering story began on Cleveland's east side, where he grew up the son of immigrant Russian Jews.
The horse is owned by Gary Barber, former chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, aka MGM. The Jewish, South African-born film executive didn't let the Israeli actress's deal with rival Warner Bros. stop him from naming his prize-winning horse after her
Norman Robert Brokaw was born on April 21, 1927, in Manhattan, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia
A second-generation Austrian Jewish kid brought up in Beverly Hills
Temple Sinai of Bergen County deeply mourns the passing of our member, Reuven Frank, husband of Bernice Frank
Jewish connections have been important to Gilbert, who had his bar mitzvah at Congregation Beth Achim in Southfield and continues his commitment to Metro Detroit Jewish causes.
Grauman was one of roughly 200 Jews who called the Dawson City area home during the Gold Rush.
He grew up in Paterson, N.J., where he was one of the only Jewish graduates of Paterson Catholic Regional High School
"In the '80s, when all the Jews used to inhabit the Omni, there was a social component to going to the game," Koonin, who is Jewish, said. "It was your social life. It looked like synagogue on the High Holidays.
In establishing the original family foundation, the Ted Mann Foundation, before his death at age 84 in 2001, Mr. Mann stipulated that a percentage of the funds be allocated to Jewish causes; that was his only restriction. (He was Jewish, but Ms. Brenden's side of the family was not.)
Regardless, Mr. Morgenstein, [...] seems to know what girls want. "Because we are middle-aged Jewish guys," he said of the company's management team, "we hire a lot of creatives who are young women, who are much closer to the audience."
The family fortune began after Nicholas Pritzker, Jay Pritzker's grandfather, arrived penniless in the U.S. during the 1880s, fleeing anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine
Shari's strict adherence to Jewish law has at times conflicted with her duties as an executive, says Gary Snyder, her cousin and Sumner's nephew.
Like most Jewish kids my age I had been bar mitzvahed, and I remember the rabbi bringing people in from outside our schul to hear me speak Hebrew.
In my case, being Jewish," Rogers continued, "the only rule I accept for myself is that I would not represent a country that has set up as a policy the destruction of the state of Israel.
Next came a plot turn that, though not as dramatic as the dark twist of "Million Dollar Baby," still isn't what you'd expect of a Jewish guy who finished Berkeley in the early 1970s.
(Brian Lamb) What was your family like? (Reese Schonfeld) Well, it was a typical, I guess, middle-class Jewish family.
I [Schwartz] had gone to USC as a Jewish kid from the east coast
Teddy Schwarzman, son of billionaire Jewish hedge fund titan Stephen Schwarzman
The Smulyans, you are pleased to conclude, have a fine sense of what might be called Midwest-Jewish values. They are a very close-knit family.
(Tom Werner) My Jewish ancestors moved to America in the 17th century
Abe Aronovitz serves as the only Jewish mayor of Miami, while Mitchell Wolfson served as the first Jewish mayor of Miami Beach
I'm Jewish by background, and I feel connected to that religion and am happy to describe myself that way...
