“His company has turned the music industry on its head and made a sliver of plastic and chrome one of the most desirable consumer items on the planet,” Owen Gibson reports for The Guardian. “Now Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs is shaking up the established order in the media industry, with the annual MediaGuardian 100 power list today showing him leapfrogging News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch into second place.”
“The top spot is taken by BBC director general Mark Thompson, recently in the news for his £619,000 salary but also for his radical restructuring of the corporation,” Gibson reports. “This year’s list was dominated by the digital media revolution. Not only does Mr Jobs, ousted from Apple in 1985 only to return 12 years later to oversee the rise of the iMac, iPod and iTunes, ascend to second place but Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page rise to fourth.”
“Jobs rises four places in this year’s list, keeping Rupert Murdoch in the No 3 spot for the second year in a row – although last year, Murdoch was behind joint top dogs Mark Thompson and Michael Grade,” Gibson reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “CharlieBing” for the heads up.]