When you're a television reporter, you make news any way you can -- then, you see how it affects your Power Grid ranking. ABC White House Correspondent Jake Tapper has a friendly rivalry with his NBC contemporary Chuck Todd, and in the heat of the baseball playoffs facial hair is on the line. That's right -- two of the most important TV journalists have made a bet: "Jake wagered Chuck that if the Philadelphia Phillies win the National League Championship, Todd must shave his goatee, and if the L.A. Dodgers win, Tapper must grow one." (more...)

According to the Power Grid, Newsweek's Jon Meacham is the most powerful Magazine Editor in all the land. This  may come as some surprise given that the title he oversees, Newsweek, is going through a rather dramatic repositioning and redesign  - an exercise not typically taken by a healthy magazine.  But in this advertising climate,  "healthy magazine" is a term rarely heard these days. But why is Meacham number one? And what else is there to be learned from the Power Grid? (more...)