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Singer with a theatrical roar who took American Idol to the charts and the Queen catalog on the road.

Saturday Night Live comic who built a film company out of a goofy, loyal American voice.

Stand-up and actress who turned a Comedy Central hour into a writer’s room of her own.

NBC’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent and a Washington institution.

Documentary filmmaker who puts Jewish history on American television.

News executive who led NBC News and MSNBC through several turbulent cycles.

Chef and traveler who turned kitchen truth and world appetite into a public language.

Chief legal correspondent and host of The Beat, an attorney on weeknight television.

The family name on the masthead of The New York Times across four publishers.

Commentator who cofounded The Daily Wire and built a daily show into a conservative franchise.

Editor and commentator who founded The Weekly Standard.

Comic who turned sidewalk ambush into a television form.

Media executive who remade Disney through Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Fox.

NBCUniversal studio executive who rose to vice-chairman of the company.

Manager-turned-studio chief who ran Paramount through a decade of outsized hits.

Pulitzer-winning columnist at The New York Times and founding editor of SAPIR.

Chairman and CEO of Comcast, the company his father founded.

Media reporter who hosted CNN’s Reliable Sources and wrote the industry’s first draft.

Psychiatrist who became a Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist.

Political journalist who moderated NBC’s Meet the Press and later launched a podcast.

The most beloved Stooge, a physical poet of nyuks, spins, and sudden grace.

Showrunner who, with David Benioff, adapted A Song of Ice and Fire for HBO.

CNN anchor who hosts Inside Politics and co-anchors State of the Union.

Television executive who rose to the top creative job at Disney.

Director of intense, often unsettling pictures from Pi to The Wrestler.

Founder of Barstool Sports who turned a Boston rag into a national media brand.

Talk-show host who took The Rubin Report from a web corner to a conservative franchise.

Novelist and screenwriter who, with D. B. Weiss, brought Westeros to Sunday night.

Comcast’s longtime political strategist who later served as U.S. ambassador to Canada.

Media executive listed among contemporary figures in news and Hollywood-adjacent business.

Parody specialist who helped make Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

Internist and addiction specialist who became radio and television’s Dr. Drew.

Philadelphia mayor and Pennsylvania governor who also chaired the national Democratic Party.

Journalist who edited Time and later took the magazine’s chair into a new corporate life.

British broadcaster who took Woman’s Hour and then joined Radio 4’s Today.

Seth Rogen's writing partner and a quiet engine of modern comedy.

Vanity Fair correspondent who wrote the Roger Ailes biography and The Apprentice screenplay.

South African-born producer who ran MGM and co-founded Spyglass.

Political journalist who became one of CNN’s senior analysts after CBS and U.S. News.

Israeli-American media builder who brought Power Rangers to American kids.

Filmmaker who treats taboo and play as the same canvas.

Columbia Pictures cofounder who ran a major studio with a producer’s iron hand.

Miramax co-founder who championed independent film, later disgraced.

Radio’s most famous morning man, who turned shock into a long-form American interview.

Israeli-American financier who steered Marvel from toys and comics toward a modern studio era.

Film executive who cofounded Columbia Pictures with his brother Harry.

Medal of Honor colonel who became a military analyst and investment manager.

CNN’s lead Washington anchor, host of The Lead and co-host of State of the Union.

Actor who moved from Spider-Man to 127 Hours and a restless side career.

Media executive who ran NBCUniversal and later held a top post at Paramount Skydance.

Television executive who ran NBCUniversal and later CNN Worldwide.

Lawyer-turned-legal analyst and bestselling writer on American trials.

CIA and Pentagon chief of staff who later analyzed security on television.

Clown prince of American comedy and a tireless fundraiser.

Half of the Airplane! trio who also directed the smash romance Ghost.

The third voice in Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.

Former hedge-fund manager who turned stock talk into CNBC’s Mad Money.

Entrepreneur and television host who ran a weekend small-business hour.

Impish comic who spent two seasons as a Stooge and a lifetime as a scene-stealer.

CNN morning anchor who also sits in for Anderson Cooper’s evening hour.

Television political reporter, among several public figures who share the name.

Satirist who made a comedy desk the country’s most trusted nightly briefing.

Internet entrepreneur who cofounded HuffPost and BuzzFeed and helped invent the shareable web.

Television journalist who reported for CNN from posts around the world.

New York Times editor, the journalist Joseph Kahn among several public namesakes.

Russian-born mogul who cofounded 20th Century Fox and helped invent the Oscars.

Dateline NBC correspondent from a storied Hollywood writing family.

Writer-producer who turned messy adulthood into a comedy studio.

Family-court judge who became television’s longest-running bench and a household name.

Hedge-fund executive and television panelist who made markets a conversation.

Broadcast journalist and author who became a breakout campaign correspondent.

The middle Stooge — a violinist from Philadelphia who made chaos a precise art.

Brooklyn-born interviewer who made a nighttime desk the world’s green room.

Television executive who ran CBS through a long ratings prime, then left amid scandal.

Actress known for Popular, What I Like About You, and American Horror Story.

Civil-rights attorney known for high-profile harassment and abuse cases.

Comic who rebuilt a career by talking, at length, in a garage.

Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.

Theater magnate who created Loew’s chain and the studio that became MGM.

Actress who made glamour look like both armor and invitation.

Entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com, bought the Mavericks, and joined Shark Tank.

Political journalist who wrote Game Change and later built the 2WAY platform.

Lawyer-turned-broadcaster with one of talk radio’s largest audiences.

Longtime co-anchor of NBC’s Today whose career ended in a workplace scandal.

Co-creator of Robot Chicken with Seth Green.

Media executive who became chief executive of The New York Times Company.

Director who made explosions, steel, and sunlight into a house style.

Producer and studio boss who has run New Line, DreamWorks, MGM, and now Warner Bros.

New York Times Company executive, a publisher-side Golden in a large public record of Michaels.

Dutch-American executive who ran Sony Pictures and later chaired Snap and Warner Music.

Theater entrepreneur who founded the company that became National Amusements.

Bowl-cut leader of the Three Stooges and the act’s stubborn straight man.

Jerusalem-born actress who grew up on screen and collected an Oscar without losing the books.

Producer behind Fast and Furious, Jump Street, and a stack of hits.

Comedian who turned awkwardness into Kroll Show and Big Mouth.

Today show producer who became president of NBC News and a working screenwriter.

Editor who ran The New York Times Book Review, then wrote a frank opinion column.

Emmy-winning writer-producer who played Toby Flenderson on The Office.

NBC News correspondent, a television journalist among several public Peter Alexanders.

Longtime Redstone lieutenant who ran Viacom as president, CEO, and chairman.

German-born CBS executive who became Viacom’s first president.

Newsroom leader who rose at The New York Times and later ran NBC News editorial.

Animator who created Steven Universe and opened children’s television to a wider heart.

NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, a field reporter fluent in the region’s languages.

CNN International’s high-energy business anchor and editor-at-large of CNN Business.

Czech-born publisher who built a newspaper and scientific empire, then left it in wreckage.

Founder of New Line Cinema, the indie studio that walked hobbits into a global franchise.

Film and television producer, partner in the Spyglass era.

Foreign correspondent and columnist who has reported from more than sixty countries.

Actor with a granite face who made monsters, bikers, and voice-over legends equally human.

CAA co-founder who ran Universal Studios for nearly two decades.

English comic who turns invented men into public tests.

Writer and commentator who became a familiar liberal voice on cable news.

Comedian who made shock, sweetness, and politics share a single joke.

Actor-producer who voiced Robot Chicken and played Scott Evil.

Saturday Night Live veteran who has hosted Late Night since 2014.

Canadian comic actor and writer who made kindness look riotous.

Media executive who held the family’s controlling votes and steered Paramount through its last independent years.

The original third Stooge, who left for a solo career and came back when his brothers needed him.

Goldman banker and film financier who served as the 77th U.S. Treasury secretary.

Media titan who turned a family theater chain into Viacom, CBS, and a century of programming.

Studio chief who founded Fox Searchlight and later took the helm at Sony’s movie group.

Playwright of Angels in America and a frequent Spielberg collaborator.

CNN’s longtime Situation Room anchor and one of the network’s principal faces.

Filmmaker who made New York neurosis into a comic art form.