1927-
Publisher

Family-Owned.

The cohead of one of the last great family-owned media conglomerates, S. I. New-house Jr. runs with his brother Donald a powerful corporation with major holdings in newspaper, book, and magazine publishing as well as cable television.

Brash.

The son of the late newspaper publisher S. I. Newhouse Sr., Newhouse oversees the family empire, Advance Publications, with his younger brother Donald. S. I. oversees the magazines and publishing concerns while Donald runs the newspapers. Newhouse's brash manner in dealing with employees and his bottom-line approach to publishing made him one of the most hated bosses in the publishing industry.

Random House.

After dropping out of Syracuse University, where his father had endowed a journalism school, Newhouse began working for his father in the newspaper business, where he failed miserably. He joined Conde Nast, the magazine-publishing arm of Advance Publications, and found his...