Inheriting his family’s shoe-making fortune allowed this Miami-based billionaire, along with his father Sidney, to buy a Miami television station for $3.4 million in 1962. Today, Sunbeam Broadcasting operates WSVN Channel 7 Miami and WHDH Channel 7 Boston, two of the most prominent stations in the country. He is a big supporter of the United Way, so much so that the Broward County location is housed in a building named in memory of his parents, Sophie and Sidney Ansin.

Jerry Powers founded Ocean Drive magazine in 1991 and turned it into one of the most successful regional publications in the country. He sold the publication to Greenspun Media Group in 2007 for $30 million and stayed on as publisher. Last year, he resigned from the magazine, as did his wife Sandi, who operated as …

This Wharton MBA Graduate is currently chairman of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate developers in the United States. Some distinct properties include the General Motors Building and Times Square Tower. Zuckerman is also owner of the New York Daily News, and owner and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report.

As Vogue’s editor-in-chief for more than twenty years, Anna Wintour has established herself a true fashion icon and trendsetter. This past February, Wintour was welcomed into The American Society of Magazine Editors’ prestigious Hall of Fame.

The chairman and publisher of the New York Times has been running the paper’s daily operations since 1992. Under his tenure, Sulzberger has helped the Times become a national newspaper, and has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes.