Full List of Names on Mediaite Most Influential List
This morning, Mediaite published its 2016 list of most influential in the news media. We have been seeing huge traffic on the story and and thousands of comments. In fact, we will be having a small party tonight to celebrate the list and the people on it.
The piece includes summaries for each of the influencers and is in a slide show format. For those who want to read the piece here it is. But we also know that some of you may just want to, umm, scan the names. So for you, our short attention span reader, here is the raw list.
TOP 25
#25 JOHN OLIVER
#24 MARTHA RADDATZ
#23 JORGE RAMOS
#22 DON LEMON
#21 TUCKER CARLSON
#20 ROBIN ROBERTS
#19 BILL SHINE & JACK ABERNETHY
#18 JESSE ANGELO
#17 RACHEL MADDOW
#16 MURDOCH FAMILY
#15 KATY TUR
#14 DAVID FAHRENTHOLD
#13 JAKE TAPPER
#12 CHUCK TODD
#11 JOE SCARBOROUGH
#10 CHRIS CUOMO
#9 GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
#8 CHRIS WALLACE
#7 MIKA BRZEZINSKI
#6 ANDY LACK
#5 SEAN HANNITY
#4 MATT DRUDGE
#3 CAROLYN RYAN
#2 MEGYN KELLY
#1 JEFF ZUCKER
JUST AS INFLUENTIAL AS THE REST (alphabetically):
DANA BASH
ERIC BOLLING
BREITBART: JOEL POLLACK and ALEX MARLOW
NEIL CAVUTO
ANDERSON COOPER
ABIGAIL CRUTCHFIELD
KURT EICHENWALD
ARDEN FARHI
MICHELLE FIELDS
PAUL GIGOT
FIN GOMEZ
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
TAMRON HALL
MARK HALPERIN
JOHN HEILEMANN
LESTER HOLT
VAN JONES
JONATHAN KARL
BRIANNA KEILAR
CNN’S KFILE: ANDREW KACZYNSKI, KYLE BLAINE, CHRISTOPHER MASSIE, and NATE MCDERMOTT
JOHN KING
EZRA KLEIN
STEVE KORNACKI
TOMI LAHREN
BILL MAHER
JOSH MARSHALL
LORNE MICHAELS
DAVID MUIR
OLIVIA NUZZI
NORAH O’DONNELL
BILL O’REILLY
ELIZABETH PLANK
POLITICO PLAYBOOK: ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN,
and DANIEL LIPPMAN
MARK PRESTON
CHARLIE ROSE
SHEPARD SMITH
BEN SMITH
HOWARD STERN
JAY SURES
CENK UYGUR
VANITY FAIR’S THE HIVE: JON KELLY, MIKE HOGAN,
and MATT LYNCH
ROBERT YOON
SHIRLEY ZILBERSTEIN